[The Java Posse] Re: Episode 341

2011-02-28 Thread Todd Costella
I haven't used SBT so I can't comment on that, but would highly (highly) recommend having a look at gradle. http://gradle.org/ On Feb 27, 5:34 pm, Henning Hoefer wrote: > Hi all, > > I just listened to episode 341 (the "Build Tools" session from the JPR > 2010). Someone in there mentions the use

[The Java Posse] Re: Java Posse Roundup 2011 dates?

2010-11-22 Thread Todd Costella
The fellows announced (at Devoxx last week) that the roundup will be February 21st - 25th in Crested Butte Colorado U.S.A. On Nov 14, 10:07 pm, Matthew Kerle wrote: > hey guys, looking at booking my flights (from oz) to the roundup for next > year. I know we don't have many details yet but I'm l

RE: [The Java Posse] Which J2EE app server uses the least amount of resources?

2010-05-06 Thread Todd Costella
We've been having pretty good results with the openEJB project from Apache. Todd -Original Message- From: javaposse@googlegroups.com on behalf of David Sent: Thu 5/6/2010 3:50 PM To: The Java Posse Subject: [The Java Posse] Which J2EE app server uses the least amount of resources? I

RE: [The Java Posse] Swing book recommendations

2010-03-04 Thread Todd Costella
I would recommend: Swing, Second Edition http://www.amazon.com/Swing-Second-Matthew-Robinson/dp/193011088X/ref=sr _1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267715672&sr=8-5 An oldie but a goodie Swing Hacks: Tips and Tools for Killer GUIs (Paperback) http://www.amazon.com/Swing-Hacks-Tips-Tools-Killer/dp/05

RE: [The Java Posse] Re: How to measure lines of code in Java

2010-02-02 Thread Todd Costella
y 02, 2010 2:03 PM To: javaposse@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [The Java Posse] Re: How to measure lines of code in Java On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Todd Costella wrote: Somewhat related to this discussion is the excellent post by Lukas Mathis: http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2010/02/02/re

[The Java Posse] Re: How to measure lines of code in Java

2010-02-02 Thread Todd Costella
Somewhat related to this discussion is the excellent post by Lukas Mathis: http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2010/02/02/removing-features/ From: javaposse@googlegroups.com [mailto:javapo...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Robert Casto Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 201

RE: [The Java Posse] Tracking code changes by devs

2010-01-30 Thread Todd Costella
We use Crucible from Atlassian. It rocks. It supports both precommit reviews (via patches) or post commit reviews against all the major source control systems out there (we use subversion). Highly, highly recommend it. Todd -Original Message- From: javaposse@googlegroups.com on behal

RE: [The Java Posse] Java Application Installation

2010-01-13 Thread Todd Costella
We use Advanced Installer for our our Windows MSIs (http://www.advancedinstaller.com/). -Original Message- From: javaposse@googlegroups.com [mailto:javapo...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of smartnhandsome Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:56 PM To: The Java Posse Subject: [The Java Poss

RE: [The Java Posse] Re: Java Posse Roundup 2010 - Dates Announced

2010-01-07 Thread Todd Costella
The sessions are held at The Queen of All Saints Parish Hall at 401 Sopris in Crested Butte. It's a very informal space with a few rooms including the much coveted comfy couch room in the basement. http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=401+Sopris+in+Crested+Butte&oe=utf-8&client =firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq

RE: [The Java Posse] Re: Java Posse Roundup 2010 - Dates Announced

2009-12-18 Thread Todd Costella
If past years are any indication, the fellows will get a sign up page up on javaposse.com. Once you're registered, you'll be invited into a google group set up specifically for logistics around all things Roundup. I'll be organizing another house this year. Todd -Original Message- From:

[The Java Posse] Re: Roundup 2010?

2009-08-03 Thread Todd Costella
As someone that has attended the three previous roundups, all paid for out of pocket, all I can say is just go. Pick bottles, busk on a street corner, whatever. Just come. You won't regret it. From: javaposse@googlegroups.com [mailto:javapo...@googlegroups.com]

[The Java Posse] Re: Les CastCodeurs == Java Posse in French

2009-04-20 Thread Todd Costella
: Les CastCodeurs == Java Posse in French On Apr 17, 4:27 pm, "Todd Costella" wrote: > If I heard correctly, one of the main reasons they fellows are doing the > podcast is that they work all day in English and wanted to have some outlet > to discuss technical topics in French. I h

[The Java Posse] Re: Les CastCodeurs == Java Posse in French

2009-04-17 Thread Todd Costella
If I heard correctly, one of the main reasons they fellows are doing the podcast is that they work all day in English and wanted to have some outlet to discuss technical topics in French. I have a ton of respect for folks that speak multiple languages. It's something we (English) North Americ

[The Java Posse] Re: Groovy Lovin'!

2009-03-17 Thread Todd Costella
It's true I heard it directly from the horse's mouth. Dick loves the Groovy. Not as much as he loves the Scala. But he does loves the Groovy. :-) -Original Message- From: javaposse@googlegroups.com [mailto:javapo...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Reinier Zwitserloot Sent: Tuesday, March

[The Java Posse] Re: House Rental Prices At the Roundup?

2009-03-09 Thread Todd Costella
Check out http://www.alpinegetaways.com/prop_CB.htm. From: javaposse@googlegroups.com [mailto:javapo...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joey Gibson Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 3:36 PM To: javaposse@googlegroups.com Subject: [The Java Posse] House Rental Prices

[The Java Posse] Re: Posse Request: Career Talk

2009-02-22 Thread Todd Costella
This might be a good topic for one of the sessions at the roundup in a couple of weeks... -Original Message- From: javaposse@googlegroups.com on behalf of MassH Sent: Sun 2/22/2009 10:15 AM To: The Java Posse Subject: [The Java Posse] Posse Request: Career Talk The Posse does tons of

[The Java Posse] Re: Speaking of flaky quality IDEs

2009-02-11 Thread Todd Costella
caches provide significantly faster compilation. -Original Message- From: javaposse@googlegroups.com [mailto:javapo...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Todd Costella Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:08 AM To: javaposse@googlegroups.com Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: Speaking of flaky

[The Java Posse] Re: Speaking of flaky quality IDEs

2009-02-11 Thread Todd Costella
Rock solid on Windows and OS/X for me as well. Much better than 7.0.4 was that's for sure. -Original Message- From: javaposse@googlegroups.com [mailto:javapo...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Michael Neale Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 5:22 PM To: The Java Posse Subject: [The Java Poss

[The Java Posse] Re: date recurrence calculator?

2009-01-29 Thread Todd Costella
We use quartz. Does the job for us. http://www.opensymphony.com/quartz/ -Original Message- From: javaposse@googlegroups.com [mailto:javapo...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Robin Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:36 AM To: The Java Posse Subject: [The Java Posse] date recurrence calcu

[The Java Posse] Re: Jared diamond book-

2009-01-15 Thread Todd Costella
That's great hari, thanks for the links! From: javaposse@googlegroups.com [mailto:javapo...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of hari jayaram Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:25 AM To: javaposse@googlegroups.com Subject: [The Java Posse] Jared diamond book- Hi

[The Java Posse] Re: Round Up Dedicated Forum?

2009-01-07 Thread Todd Costella
AM To: The Java Posse Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: Round Up Dedicated Forum? On Jan 6, 9:33 pm, "Todd Costella" wrote: > Hey Peter. > > I haven't seen one set up for 2009 yet but here is a link for last years > round up. > Hi Todd Probably I need to look at flig

[The Java Posse] Re: Round Up Dedicated Forum?

2009-01-06 Thread Todd Costella
Hey Peter. I haven't seen one set up for 2009 yet but here is a link for last years round up. (Hopefully not stepping on anyones toes here). http://groups.google.com/group/roundup08 If you have any specific questions drop me a note at todd dot costella at entero dot com and I would be happy to

[The Java Posse] Re: Rebuttal of groovy popularity assessment (episode #224)

2009-01-06 Thread Todd Costella
>From my point of view, Groovy and to a lesser extent Grails aren't considered as sexy or cutting edge as some of the other VM languages out there. This is exactly why they make great choices. The interop story between Java and Groovy has always been great and continues to get better all the t

[The Java Posse] Re: Posse Roundup 09 change of dates

2008-12-12 Thread Todd Costella
It's a great time and would highly recommend it. Getting there is pretty easy. ->Denver->Gunnison. You can either rent a car in Gunnison or take a van to Crested Butte. I would recommend the van myself as you don't need a car once you're in Crested Butte. There are lots of options for acco

[The Java Posse] Re: Recommend a good Profiler?

2008-10-21 Thread Todd Costella
I would recommend the Visual VM that (fairly recently?) is included in the JDK (1.6). Not exactly a profiler per se but contains a ton of useful information on running process, cpu usage, memory allocations etc. https://visualvm.dev.java.net/ We've had a couple of clients send us snapshots

[The Java Posse] Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-04 Thread Todd Costella
I don't really have a strong opinion about this announcement. We'll see I guess. There has been some clarification of the license. A bit of commentary can be found on Matt Cutts blog. He works for Google and tends to have his head screwed on pretty well from my perspective. http://www.mattc