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In this short interview Romain Guy, who's still a french student working at Sun, will talk about the Synth look and feel, why he thinks you should use Swing instead of SWT You'll also get more information on the recently released Swing labs (still in beta) and how Romain got this great Swing "job" at Sun. In addition Dion couldn't resist to ask Romain when to use Swing Vs AJAX.

In this podcast provides a guided tour of the new things in the AOP world. It explains new features in AspectJ along with the practical considerations in utilizing each of them. The talk explores the fundamental synergy between AOP and metadata to understand right (and wrong) utilization of metadata-based crosscutting. Load-time weaving (LTW) enables adding aspects to your existing applications deployed in any application server with a minimal effort. The presentation shows how to utilize LTW to improve your productivity considerably, even if you don't yet subscribe to the AOP philosophy and don't want to use AOP in production.

During this interesting interview Brian Goetz explains what was broken in the Java Memory Model and what the fuzz was all about. Get also more info on why Brian is writing a "Java Concurrency in practice" book. "What impact will multi-core CPU's machine have on Java applications ?" or "How can I find and fix concurrency problems?" are, amongst others, great questions Ted Neward asked Brian.

Income growth of workers in any economic sector is directly related to productivity growth. In the past, the productivity of the technology sector grew not because technical workers were becoming more productive, but because technical capability was growing so fast. Unfortunately for the incomes of software development professionals, this is no longer the case. Future income growth will be related to our ability to increase software development productivity. How can software development productivity be increased? Through the same approaches used in operations: a focus on customer value, a short, effective supply chain, healthy discipline, and innovation. This class will discuss techniques that businesses have used for decades to jump-start an increase productivity, and show how they can be used to increase software development productivity.
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During this interview Elliotte Rusty Harold explains why XOM was build and what its use cases are. The pain points of DOM and SAX are highlighted and streaming Vs tree-like XML parsing are discussed. Why doesn't he like interfaces and says they're vastly over-used in Java ? What would he change in the Collection and NIO classes and why isn't he impressed by Generics ? Also hear Elliotte's view on the Ruby Array class which last year was heavily discussed based on Martin Fowlers blog post.