Java Posse #456

Roundup ‘14 - Inspire Me

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Scala by the Bay conference, August 8th and 9th in San Francisco, CA. There will also be several training courses offered around the conference itself, including Scala Foundations from Scala by the Bay, our own Stairway to Scala Advanced, Fast Track to Spark and Fast Track to Akka.

http://www.scalabythebay.org/

http://www.scalabythebay.org/training.html#training

• Rich Hickey: Simple Made Easy

• http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

• Online Courses

• https://www.coursera.org/

• http://extension.berkeley.edu/static/online/

• http://online.stanford.edu/courses

• http://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/courses/online-courses

• http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/online/

• TED Talks

• http://www.ted.com/talks/browse

• Barry Hawkins Codemash Keynote

• http://www.infoq.com/presentations/How-We-Got-Here-And-What-To-Do-About-It

• Google+

• https://plus.google.com/

• Kevin Smith Podcast - Neal Adams

• http://smodcast.com/episodes/neal-adams-kneel-before-neal/

• Movies

• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0359950/

• Pay it Forward

• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0223897/

• Iron Man

• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371746/?ref_=nv_sr_3

• PBS: Alan Alda

• http://www.pbs.org/saf/alan.htm

• Youtube: Learn Something New Every Day

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOHkxj7YIteyAZ0t0AcDpuE3QwRH0zDTX

• Bill Nye / Neil De Grasse Tyson

• http://billnye.com/

• http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/

• Book: Phoenix Project

• http://www.amazon.com/The-Phoenix-Project-Helping-Business/dp/0988262592

• Movie: Monuments Men

• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2177771/

• Khan Academy

• https://www.khanacademy.org/

• Podcasts

• Story of the Day

• http://www.npr.org/sections/story-of-the-day/

• Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me

• http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/

• The Moth

• http://themoth.org/about/programs/the-moth-podcast

• On the Media

• http://www.onthemedia.org/

• Fatman 8 Batman - Kevin Smith

• http://smodcast.com/channels/fatman-on-batman/

• The Nerdist

• http://www.nerdist.com/

Thanks

• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth

• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect

• Kirsty Doherty, Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork

• Theme Music:

• Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),

• written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.

• Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.

• Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg

• Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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