Ted Neward and Bruce Tate talk Java
Ted Neward and Bruce Tate talk about the relationship between Java and .NET, underscoring the issues with interop between the two platforms.
Also discussed: cultural differences between the Java and .NET communities, the Pet Store Benchmark, the Jump Toolkit and J#, Naked Objects, unit testing, refactoring, the Standard Widget Toolkit, Mono, Rotor, Java on the client vs on the server, Swing, Sun vs Microsoft ideology, rabid zealotry in the Java community, languages vs platforms, open source, and the future of Java IDEs.
Dan Appleman stopped by to talk about languages and what's new at Desaware.
As always, Rory does Google Weirdos, and Carl exposes the Linux Vulnerability of the Week
Guests:
Bruce Tate
Bruce Tate is the author of four books, including the smash hit Bitter Java, and Bitter EJB. He's an independent consultant with clients such as FedEx, TheServerSide, IBM and BEA. He is the founder and president of J2Life, a company specializing in design reviews. He's reviewed designs for hundreds of customers, with specialties in persistence and tailoring the development process. In the past, he's held development and leadership positions at IBM, and has worked for several startups, including posts as CTO and director of solutions development.
Ted Neward
Ted Neward is an industry professional with twenty plus years' experience. He speaks at conferences all over the world and writes regularly for a variety of publications across the Java, .NET, and other ecosystems. He currently resides in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two sons, three cats, twelve laptops, seven tablets, nine phones, and a rather large utility bill.
Links:
- Refactoring Redux - Paul Vick http://www.panopticoncentral.net/PermaLink.aspx/71832517-63bc-4926-877b-ef78d930c61b
- TheServerSide.Net http://www.theserverside.net
- Simon Guest - .NET J2EE Interoperability Toolkit http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735619220/qid=1078092866//ref=pd_ka_1/002-3861129-3368028?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
- David Weller's Blog http://www.inkblog.com/
- Naked Objects Home Page http://www.nakedobjects.org/
- Developmentor http://www.developmentor.com
- Test Driven Development: By Example (Kent Beck) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0321146530/qid=1078094484//ref=pd_ka_2/002-3861129-3368028?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
- nUnit - Unit Testing Tool http://www.nunit.org/
- Standard Widget Toolkit http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-SWT-Design-1/SWT-Design-1.html
- Linux Security Advisories http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/index.html
- Groovy http://groovy.codehaus.org/index.html
- Jython http://www.jython.org/
- AspectJ Project http://eclipse.org/aspectj/
- Bitter Java http://www.manning.com/tate/
- Ted Neward's Weblog http://www.neward.net/ted/weblog
- "No Fluff Just Stuff" Conference http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com