Re: [The Java Posse] Podcast suggestions?

2014-09-29 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 04:33:07 +0200, Cédric Beust ♔ ced...@beust.com wrote: My feelings exactly. Every time a new build system comes out, I get excited, I try it and I realize that while it does fix a few things that don't work very well in Maven, Maven still wins overall in usability,

Re: [The Java Posse] Podcast suggestions?

2014-09-29 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 04:45:47 +0200, clay claytonw...@gmail.com wrote: - Declarative when you want it, imperative logic when you need it. I've heard people say Maven forces you to be declarative, which is silly. It depends. When you have heterogeneous groups where you have to enforce some

Re: [The Java Posse] Podcast suggestions?

2014-09-29 Thread Mark Derricutt
On 29 Sep 2014, at 15:45, clay wrote: - Way more concise. Gradle has a much cleaner syntax and doesn't require mountains of XML for everything. Each library dependency in a typical Maven pom often uses five lines of XML which is silly. Gradle and SBT have a much leaner syntax. I've converted

Re: [The Java Posse] Podcast suggestions?

2014-09-29 Thread clay
On Monday, September 29, 2014 2:30:38 AM UTC-5, fabrizio.giudici wrote: It depends. When you have heterogeneous groups where you have to enforce some order, declarative is better because you can force people to stick with a standard way to do things. Maven gives a very superficial

Re: [The Java Posse] Podcast suggestions?

2014-09-28 Thread Cédric Beust ♔
My feelings exactly. Every time a new build system comes out, I get excited, I try it and I realize that while it does fix a few things that don't work very well in Maven, Maven still wins overall in usability, productivity, tooling and general support. And yes, I put gradle firmly in that

Re: [The Java Posse] Podcast suggestions?

2014-09-23 Thread Linas Jakucionis
I have been listening to http://www.illegalargument.com/ This covers a good range of topics but sometimes one of the hosts goes into too much technicalities of definitions. On 04/05/14 17:29, ranjith wrote: Javaposse was one my main sources of Java and Techsphere news . I enjoyed the

Re: [The Java Posse] Podcast suggestions?

2014-09-23 Thread Mark Derricutt
On 23 Sep 2014, at 22:58, Linas Jakucionis wrote: I have been listening to http://www.illegalargument.com/ This covers a good range of topics but sometimes one of the hosts goes into too much technicalities of definitions. That just might be me - or maybe Greg. The arguments are strong

Re: [The Java Posse] Podcast suggestions?

2014-05-07 Thread Jan Goyvaerts
It's a downtime indeed :-( I'm now more on Linux podcasts: Linux Outlaws, Linux Voice, Full Circle, ... those are funny. And interesting - if you're into Linux. And the occasional Scalawags with Dick Wall. But that's Scala. And barely comprehensible when Daniel gets too deep into Type Theory.

Re: [The Java Posse] Podcast suggestions?

2014-05-04 Thread Mark Derricutt
On 5 May 2014, at 1:45, Josh Juneau wrote: I recommend the Java Pub House podcast...it is very good! It is recorded by leaders of the Chicago Java Users Group. http://www.javapubhouse.com/ The Chariot TechCast is also good for news: http://techcast.chariotsolutions.com/ -- You received