• Probably the lead story - the Lambda final revisions are in for JDK 8 and Brian Goetz has an informal summary here
• RxJava: Functional Reactive Programming on the JVM (Java, Scala, Clojure)
• Javascript world
  • Angular-sprout -- Builds on angular-seed, basically a modular angular starter project, clone it and go:
  • jQuery 1.11 releasedAaaaarrrrgh!: 1.x is the version that still supports IE 6/7/8, so nice that there are still new things for us poor souls who still have to support old versions of IE
    • Asynchronous Module Definition support
    • performance improvements
    • Bower support
    • and NO API changes!
• IOS world
  • Joel has a hands on with iOS 7: (Joel likes it alot) Personal impressions: at first the cartoons threw me off, but a lot of nice usability baked in...
  • Bugs:
    • Mobile web issues with Safari on iOS 7
    • lock screen bug
    • Fingerprint scanner can be tricked, but did anyone doubt that? Still harder to crack than a 4 digit passcode, right?
  • Four iOS privacy settings you should turn enable immediately
  • Former Charioteer Heidi Utley’s collaborating on a book on iOS 7 that highlights the changes in iOS7 for existing iOS developers (not an intro, but should be a good resource):
• Valve announces Steam OS, a linux-based free gaming-oriented OS that device makers can freely include. Could disrupt the gaming market:
• RSA tells customers to stop using part of its BSAFE product since it has been pwned by the NSA:
  • In the comments section: "All of a sudden, Richard Stallman's continuing tirade about purity of open source, and the need for proper documentation on everything (hardware included) doesn't seem so crackpot now. Hindsight, but yes, we should have listened." Interesting, yes?

This week - it's Not about Furby, but about the new Apple iPhones. Your hosts, Ken Rimple, Sujan Kapadia and Joel Confino talk about whether they'd go out and buy one, whether they still display the same appeal, and what's under the surface that could be a potential game changer.

We also cover former Charioteer Brian O'Niell's Long Tail Treasure trove, a great JavaZone talk about some fantastic APIs he's used, Spring's new YARN framework for Hadoop 2.0, the Go language, $100 tablets, and more robot overlords.

The links

• Want a quick way to create a fast, Netty-based server? Check out this GitHub project, RestExpress
• And more about Netty... Why Netty? Java's Native IO (nio) of course!
• Hadoop 2.0 introduces YARN. But how to ball up some YARN? Let's use Spring YARN for developing Hadoop YARN applications
• Before he went off to the west coast to work for NING and GroupOn, Brian McCallister worked at Chariot. He has a great JavaZone slide deck - The Long Tail Treasure Trove- a set of APIs he's used on various projects. Joel talks about:
  • Xbean Finder - Find all of the classes in a jar that have your custom annotation. It uses ASM for speed and security.
  • Airline - a Java annotation-based framework for parsing Git like command line structures
  • JAnsi - Eliminate boring console output from your Java apps, let’s you do cools, etc...
  • Netflix Feign - Easily write Java clients that consume Web Services (alternative to Jersey, etc)
  • Jackson module afterburner - a Jackson module that uses bytecode generation to further speed up data binding (+30-40% throughput for serialization, deserialization)

  (pause for cheesy marketing) - And if you act now, much, much more!!!

• IP Law and FOSS - one can help the other - an interesting take on how copyright, patents, trademark laws can intersect with open source projects.

• YEAH! Integrating yeoman-style projects into a larger maven build - Addy Osmani comes up with the goods. Making Maven Grunt
• We buried the lead - NSA can get to everything
• Joel brings up the counter-point, an article by ARS.
• Vertx 2.0 Q&A on InfoQ w/Tim Fox - As per last week's episode, Vert.X is an eclipse-hosted, run by Tim Fox at RedHat. Check out The VertX Gradle Template and if you're looking for a good manager for Vert.X, groovy, grails, griffon, etc., have a look at GVM.
• A graphene transitor? wow, that's atomic!
• Ok, beginning coders, how about a coding game - this isn't started yet, but close. Looks SUPER fun.
• Coding craze - going crazy?
• How about a DIMM SSD with ultra-low latency? - wow! Let's order 4 for my macbook! (Coming soon, but Enterprise only)...
• Racket: write your own programming language - a SCHEME-based language to write other languages for educational purposes.
• $65 DIY robot that moves like a bug

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Links, please!

• A nice, involved, deep tutorial on building a fantasy football league manager using AngularJS.
• Vert.X has really come into its own - a great article by JavaWorld on version 2.0.
• Duck, wait for the flash - here is Spring Scala. Now you can not only host scala-based Spring Beans, but define your bean contexts in a handy DSL ala the JavaConfig variant.
• Spock (a groovy-based JUnit behavior-driven testing engine) keeps impressing Ken - he saw an 'old()' method that blew his mind. Several hours later, he got up and posted a link to this Blog article on mrhaki.
• How about an Arduino networking board that can communicate up to more than a thousand meters! Wow! The boards are to be mesh-network capable too.
• Since they're both Spring Geeks, Sujan and Ken spend time discussing this 2011 article on the corner cases around transactional testing in Spring.
• Somebody, go over and poke Progressive Enhancement with a stick. Is it dead yet? Maybe... Read Tom Dale's take on the subject.
• The link we've been waiting for - in London, a lens was formed by a building's curved windowed surface that MELTED A CAR - well a bit. Read this fascinating verge article on it.