[The Java Posse] Re: Hudson moves to GitHub to spite Jenkins?

2011-02-18 Thread Manfred Moser
Yeah .. that was it. It is probably my favorite podcast besides the posse... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: [The Java Posse] Hudson moves to GitHub to spite Jenkins?

2011-02-15 Thread Manfred Moser
I heard an interesting podcast with the founder recently and it was profitable from the get go. Just forgot what podcast it was. manfred -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to

[The Java Posse] Re: Nokia goes Windows Mobile

2011-02-11 Thread Manfred Moser
A rather sad side effect of this is that Meego is probably dead for good now. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

[The Java Posse] Re: Sonatype to stick with Hudson

2011-02-04 Thread Manfred Moser
Jason van Zyl shines a bit more light on this whole disaster. Interesting insights in terms of code quality, IP, process and stuff. http://www.sonatype.com/people/2011/02/hudsons-bright-future/ Jelly and forked artifacts certainly bring up some bad memories for me and that does not exactly

[The Java Posse] Meeting other JavaPosse listeners at AnDevCon

2011-01-14 Thread Manfred Moser
Hi! My name is Manfred Moser and I am a long time Javapose listner (since around 8x). I will present about using Apache Maven for Android developmenet at the AnDevCon conference in San Francisco in March 2011 (http://www.andevcon.com) and I am organizing a Android Development Tooling fireside

Re: [The Java Posse] GigaSpaces

2011-01-05 Thread Manfred Moser
If you are looking for something along these lines I would definitely check out GridGain. Nikita was at our JUG recently and did a very impressive demonstration of GridGain and Scala. It is all available as open source too so you can check it out and prototype with it easily. manfred

[The Java Posse] Re: The Chipmunks have Returned!

2010-12-30 Thread Manfred Moser
Yeah.. thanks for that guys. It was AWESOME!! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Plugging a new Tech Podcast...

2010-12-03 Thread Manfred Moser
Count me in too. I always cringe when itunes starts by accident... Hi CKoerner, I don't currently have an mp3 file on the site - I was expecting most people to go through iTunes directly, but I guess that goes to prove the saying about 'assumptions'... I will add an mp3 tomorrow, just for

Re: [The Java Posse] is the iPhone Development Environment Superior to Android's?

2010-11-23 Thread Manfred Moser
People keep missing the point that Android is about choice even in these comparisons. You do NOT have to use Eclipse if you dont want to. I know people that develop Android apps in KomodoEdit, IntelliJ, Neetbeans, Eclipse, Vim and Emacs... Try doing that with Xcode development.. manfred -- You

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Android on Windows?

2010-11-10 Thread Manfred Moser
There is a project that is working on getting Android to run natively on x86 .. that would solve the performance problem. http://www.android-x86.org/ For that to happen, surely we'd need a faster emulator than the current QEMU-based one. It's currently much faster to deploy to a real

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Does the Android SDK partly use Swing?

2010-11-09 Thread Manfred Moser
I will agree that we've not been very good at advertising this. However, since April of this year the developer tools for Android are developed entirely in the open, and we have accepted several contributions from external people. If you want to contribute, register to the android-contrib

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Next Android version, 2.3 or 3.0?

2010-11-08 Thread Manfred Moser
On 11/08/2010 07:38 PM, Casper Bang wrote: Got it. Looking forward to hearing about tooling and API level 9, whether it be marketed 2.3 or 3.0. :) In particular, I'd like to see some screenshot and blogging about the new UI. I'm going to give to my app some more care about the look and

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Does the Android SDK partly use Swing?

2010-11-08 Thread Manfred Moser
the command line. Xav Android SDK Tech Lead. On Oct 28, 10:09 am, Manfred Moser manf...@mosabuam.com wrote: On 10/28/2010 06:43 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: Android uses neither AWT/Swing nor SWT. As Casper points out, HierarchyViewer uses Swing but it's an external tool. I suppose that's

Re: [The Java Posse] Android Unit testing

2010-11-04 Thread Manfred Moser
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 4:53 AM, jazam aja...@gmail.com wrote: I've been trying to right test code for my app. I've read and re-read the android documentation a number of times. I can't work out how to test service or content providers. Is there any example source code anywhere, I can have a

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Android Unit testing

2010-11-04 Thread Manfred Moser
For easier integration testing you should also look at Robotium. Thank you all for your recommendations. It sounds like unit testing is a bit of a pain for developing android software. I'll have a look at the maven android plugin and android-mock. On Nov 4, 6:39 pm, Dominic Mitchell

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Mac vs. Java: Nothing to see here, move along: Eclipse and NetBeans run just fine on OpenJDK.

2010-10-27 Thread Manfred Moser
Realistically, I think serious Java developers who use Macs are going to have to dual-boot into Windows or Linux -- at least if they're doing anything that's not strictly server-side. That's what every Mac owner wanted anyway, a really cute machine running Linux, right? :-| Writing from my

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Apple has just deprecated Java on the Mac!!!

2010-10-21 Thread Manfred Moser
If nothing else, this might push efforts to improve Linux drivers for the trackpad, magic mouse, etc. Ubuntu 10.10 with the mac support packages runs fine for me including trackpad, magic mouse and so on. And window resizing in KDE works as expected ... and not the weird way it does on the mac

Re: [The Java Posse] No more JME on Meego?

2010-10-21 Thread Manfred Moser
http://www.dzone.com/links/r/nokia_makes_qt_the_sole_application_development_f.html JME is as good as dead. Everything/everybody is moving away from it. I find it ironic that Rich Green is making this announcement.. manfred -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [The Java Posse] No more JME on Meego?

2010-10-21 Thread Manfred Moser
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 14:33 -0700, Manfred Moser wrote: http://www.dzone.com/links/r/nokia_makes_qt_the_sole_application_development_f.html JME is as good as dead. Everything/everybody is moving away from it. I find it ironic that Rich Green is making this announcement.. Your assertion

Re: [The Java Posse] No more JME on Meego?

2010-10-21 Thread Manfred Moser
On 10/22/10 00:42 , Russel Winder wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 16:02 -0600, phil swenson wrote: Seems like Nokia just put the final nail in the coffin to me. Once you eliminate Symbian, what's left? I have no idea. Personally I would just go with Java SE Embedded, but clients want Java ME

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Time For A Break

2010-09-02 Thread Manfred Moser
Of course it all changes if you become independent as a contractor/self employed... then you can trade unpaid leave for money any time if you are lucky enough. And sometimes you end up with lots of unpaid leave. And that might be better for you actually.. manfred In Denmark it's 25 vacation

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Disappointment in Oracle

2010-08-17 Thread Manfred Moser
He just said they care less for you than Sun. I think this is a well-founded statement. Basically Sun open sourced every single asset they owned (with very few exceptions). OTOH I don't see Google open sourcing any of its services (the search engine, GAE, GMail and the other bazillion ones).

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Dick's Crystal Ball: Oracle sues Google over Android. Facepalm!

2010-08-13 Thread Manfred Moser
Interesting thought. Maybe that is his way of restarting the JCP as a community of companies that all pay properly for maintenance and then have legal protection... that might be okay. But surely there are better ways to get something like that going. Overall this seems mostly a destructive

Re: [The Java Posse] Dick's Crystal Ball: Oracle sues Google over Android. Facepalm!

2010-08-12 Thread Manfred Moser
So, the obvious solution is for Google to stick it to 'em, ditch Java, adopt another of the JVM languages (Scala, etc) so the port will be easy. (Wink Wink) It will just be one more step for Java towards irrelevance in the mobile computing space. Seriously, this makes me mad too. Bad

Re: [The Java Posse] Oracle announcement on the future of Solaris

2010-08-11 Thread Manfred Moser
Hi Folks, A little off topic perhaps but definitely in the Oracle family. I've just been reading this, and in particular am interested in what people think about where this leaves OpenSolaris.

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Geek time

2010-07-09 Thread Manfred Moser
I can have some difficulty because I end up getting dumped on by members of my local Church all the time as tech support. I will get calls or messages on my answering machine I am having a problem with my computer to which I think I don't care! but I am too nice to say that so the story ends

Re: [The Java Posse] Geek time

2010-07-08 Thread Manfred Moser
I agree with Robert. I am married with three little boys under 5 and I find myself listening to podcast whenever possible. Since I have a mobile phone I also get to keep up with my RSS feeds in Google reader much better (subscribed to 100 feeds easily). And magazines and books lay around the

Re: [The Java Posse] Geek time

2010-07-08 Thread Manfred Moser
abreast =) S On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Manfred Moser manf...@mosabuam.comwrote: I agree with Robert. I am married with three little boys under 5 and I find myself listening to podcast whenever possible. Since I have a mobile phone I also get to keep up with my RSS feeds in Google

Re: [The Java Posse] Little annoyance with the Android emulator (font sizes)

2010-07-06 Thread Manfred Moser
I think the only thing that comes close to that is setting a specific dpi-device and the scale on the screen. Apart from that there is nothing obvious as far as I know. How are you actually observing the difference.. manfred http://www/simpligility.com PS: E.g. I have a dialog where a button

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Delay on AVD

2010-07-06 Thread Manfred Moser
Yeah.. unfortunately there is no such thing as jrebel on the dalvik vm.. manfred the emulator on windows is much slower than the linux version (dont know why), but running on the device is much much faster and yes you have to redeploy for every change you make (both on the emulator and the

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Delay on AVD

2010-07-06 Thread Manfred Moser
You just redeploy the app from your IDE or the command line.. Use adb .. I tried with both home key, and also pressing the back key to get out of the application to see if that reloads the application. But seems like its not reloading the application. Any idea how can I ask the emulator to

Re: [The Java Posse] Android cool LF design guidelines

2010-06-28 Thread Manfred Moser
The presentation about Android UI at Google IO i saw on youtube was pretty good. It should give you some great ideas. http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/android-ui-design-patterns.html manfred -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Emigration and the UK Budget.

2010-06-22 Thread Manfred Moser
It depends on the manager capability of evaluating people's productivity. In Italy meritocracy is a large cultural lack, thus remote working seldom occurs. OTOH, I suppose many agile practices are incompatible with people remotely scattered in different places of the world (I mean, not

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: android podcasts

2010-05-28 Thread Manfred Moser
There is also a motorola specific android podcast called motodev podcast that is interesting now and then.. manfred I listen to TWiA, which is a fairly professional and frequent podcast: http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-android/ Also Phandroid, little more amateurish and intimate:

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: android podcasts

2010-05-28 Thread Manfred Moser
Oh yeah... I also forgot the android central one http://www.androidcentral.com/podcast/ There is also a motorola specific android podcast called motodev podcast that is interesting now and then.. manfred I listen to TWiA, which is a fairly professional and frequent podcast:

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Why the f**k so many classes in the Android SDK are a stub?

2010-05-04 Thread Manfred Moser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/4/10 00:20 , Casper Bang wrote: This model separation business got me curious. Are you using legacy Ant and the Android plugin for NetBeans, or using Manfred's Maven plugin? I ask because I have not yet had time to Mavenize my hobby stuff

Re: [The Java Posse] Why the f**k so many classes in the Android SDK are a stub?

2010-05-03 Thread Manfred Moser
The whole android jar contains pretty much only stubbed classes with exception throwing method stubs. If you want to run test you have to either use instrumentation tests (basically an app that runs in the emulator that remote controls you app or activities and tests it). If you want to run pure

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Manfred Moser
What continues to bother me with WebKit is that Apple claims they started it all. In fact they forked the already perfectly working KHTML engine written by the KDE community and rebranded it to webkit. Sure they did enhancements to it but the base was laid by the KDE folks and that never gets

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Recording a screencast of an Android device

2010-04-27 Thread Manfred Moser
There is droidex that tunnels your attached device screen to the computer, where you could then record the screencast. http://github.com/commonsguy/droidex http://groups.google.com/group/droidex It is sort of unsupported now and Mark recommends to use the newer droidatscreen

Re: [The Java Posse] Git Problems At Roundup?

2010-04-06 Thread Manfred Moser
If you want to use mercurial/hg and also want a project site with wiki and issue tracking you can use google code.. Seconded. I've been toying with Git for personal projects and am currently weighing my options for an upcoming project. Particularly Git vs Mercurial, as well as the relative

Re: [The Java Posse] Recommendations on cross-platform external drives?

2010-02-26 Thread Manfred Moser
with the drive) or use an existing connection.. Manfred Moser http://www.mosabuam.com skype mosabua, twitter.com/mosabua http://www.linkedin.com/in/manfredmoser On Friday February 26 2010, Matt Stine wrote: Finally getting back to thisNAS looks like a nice option indeed. Western Digital's My

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Good SCM for single user and multiple machines?

2010-01-15 Thread Manfred Moser
to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comjavaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.co m . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. Manfred Moser

[The Java Posse] Re: Manning book advise

2009-09-21 Thread Manfred Moser
Twitter is your friend ;-) http://twitter.com/ManningBooks -- Manfred Moser http://www.mosabuam.com skype mosabua, twitter.com/mosabua http://www.linkedin.com/in/manfredmoser On Monday September 21 2009, Randinn wrote: Really, where is this stated, I'm at their site and see nothing

[The Java Posse] Re: JRuby team moving to Engine Yard - why it is better.

2009-08-04 Thread Manfred Moser
On Tuesday August 4 2009, Michael Neale wrote: Despite what lots of people think, its likely they will get to do greater work at EngineYard: at Sun, there was lots of glassfish shoe- horning expected of them, and I heard Nick Sieger was working on Kenai full time. So Engine Yard means a

[The Java Posse] Re: OLAP stack for Java

2009-07-17 Thread Manfred Moser
more successful in Europe.. Olap4j is another option.. http://www.olap4j.org/ All depends what you are looking for in details.. try them out;-) manfred -- Manfred Moser http://www.mosabuam.com skype mosabua, twitter.com/mosabua http://www.linkedin.com/in/manfredmoser On Friday July 17 2009

[The Java Posse] Re: Peer Code Review

2009-02-12 Thread Manfred Moser
On Thursday February 12 2009, Robert Fischer wrote: Getting back to the original topic, code reviews are good, but I've never seen the mandatory pre-check-in review work for long. I've heard of places where it's worked well, but these places seem downright mythical to me because I've never

[The Java Posse] Re: Java 6 Update 10 Out (but it's quiet)

2008-10-18 Thread Manfred Moser
On Saturday October 18 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Java 6 Update 10 is out... However I've only seen a brief post on java.net I imagine Sun is probably saving themselves for the launch of JavaFX but I didn't expect to hear the crickets chriping. No kidding. I thought there be some major

[The Java Posse] Re: Personal Genomics and Java

2008-10-01 Thread Manfred Moser
We use some on the edge for think like specific xml parsing but nothing near the core. BioJava looks interesting though. Might play with it at some stage. manfred Manfred Moser http://www.mosabuam.com skype: mosabua http://www.linkedin.com/in/manfredmoser On Saturday September 27 2008

[The Java Posse] Re: Personal Genomics and Java

2008-09-20 Thread Manfred Moser
;-) Nevertheless our website should be interesting to you http://www.genologics.com/ manfred PS: and yes.. we are hiring too ;-) -- Manfred Moser Vancouver Island Java User Group http://www.mosabuam.com/vijug skype: mosabua http://www.linkedin.com/in/manfredmoser On Friday September 19 2008