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Java Champions Consolidated Blog Feed Provides Excellent ReadsPosted by editor on August 3, 2009 at 4:47 AM PDT
The java.net Java Champions project is a page I've had bookmarked in my browser for a long time. The project page currently features a JavaOne slide show and a Java Champion and Community Leader slide deck, along with the topic of this blog post: the Java Champion Blog Feed. The Java Champion Blog Feed is a consolidated feed of the blogs of 37 of the Java Champions. I selected todays "Java Today" items from the feed, to demonstrate the type of content you'll find in the feed. As you'd expect, the Java Champions are a busy group of people who don't have a lot of time to spend on writing blog posts, so the flow from the feed is not a enormous in terms of volume. But in terms of quality and interesting content? It's as superb as you'd expect from such a highly qualified community. The feed itself is constructed using Yahoo Pipes. The current list of participants in the feed includes: The Java Champion Blog Feed provides a very convenient way to keep up to date with the latest thoughts and ideas of the Java Champions. In Java Today, Java Champion Adam Bien posted Java The Most Popular Language - ActionScript Is Followed By Fortran And Cobol: "Java is the most popular language in July. ActionScript (22) is tightly followed by Fortran and COBOL (what a nice neighborhood :-)). Scala is actually doing well (32) and Java FX Script (44) seems to be more popular than Groovy (47) - what really surprised me..." Java Champion Jim Weaver has posted the latest entry in his JavaFX tutorial series, Six Degrees of Aynsley Dunbar: BandmatesFX Example JavaFX App Continued: "So far in this Freebase Contributing Artists App series, we've been developing a JavaFX application that enables the user to navigate connections among musicians. I'm calling this application BandmatesFX, and it uses the JSONHandler feature of the JFXtras open source library to easily query the Freebase.com database..." A few weeks ago, Java Champion Alan Williamson posted A Simple Java class for Amazon SimpleDB: "Last October, I released an updated version of the simple Java class for accessing all the methods of Amazon's SimpleDB web service. This class also forms the basis of the Amazon methods within OpenBlueDragon..." In today's Weblogs, Jim Driscoll writes about Comet based TicTacToe in Atmosphere: "About a year ago, I gave a talk at JavaOne on how to write a Comet powered TicTacToe game. At the time, I used the Grizzly Comet APIs. Here's an update for it to use the multi-platform Atmosphere API set." Rémi Forax writes about a DLR Expression Tree like in Java: "This entry show how to implement an Expression Tree like the one that comes with the DLR in Java on top of JSR 292 API." And Arun Gupta posted TOTD# 86: Getting Started with Apache Wicket on GlassFish: "Apache Wicket is an application framework to build web applications using HTML for markup and POJOs to capture the business logic and all other processing. Why Wicket digs more into the motivation behind this framework. This Tip Of The Day (TOTD) shows how to create a simple..."
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And The current Spotlight is the James Liu and OpenSolaris Team Roundtable: "java.net's Gary Thompson moderates a roundtable discussion with James Liu and members of the OpenSolaris Team in this java.net Community Corner 2009 podcast, recorded at JavaOne." This week's java.net Poll asks "What do you think about Project Kenai?". Voting will run through Thursday. Our Feature Articles include an article by Biswajit Sarkar, Using the Payment API for Microcredit and Other Applications, which describes how to apply the Payment API (JSR 229) in JavaME applications. We're also featuring Jeff Friesen's Introducing Custom Cursors to JavaFX, in which Jeff shows developers how to leverage undocumented JavaFX capabilities to support custom cursors in versions 1.2 and 1.1.1.
The latest Java Mobility Podcast is Java Mobility Podcast 84: Valderi Leithardt on using SunSpots for gesture recognition.: "An interview with Ph.D. candidate Valderi Leithardt in Brazil on using SunSpots for gesture recognition."
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Submitted by sunahouston on Mon, 2009-08-03 23:45.
Thanks for the mention of the Java Champions Kevin.. They truly are a unique community; one who self-selects their members...Sun doesn't pick them.
And btw, there is another Blog Feed of NetBeans luminaries that may be of interest to your readers:
http://dreamteam.netbeans.org/#blogs
--Thank U--
Aaron Houston
Program Coordinator
Sun Technology Outreach
- Java Champions
- Java User Groups
- NetBeans Dream Team
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