> I love listening to these four guys chatting and having some fun even if
> they don't stick to Java and closely related stuff. Their insight of the
> industry, programming and simple being nice is invaluable

> Go on please

> p.s. it would be nice to be able to use Java in google app engine. Hosting
> Java apps aimed for prototyping, learning or collaborating in early stages
> of development is too expencive

> 2008/4/9, Michael Neale <michael.ne...@gmail.com>:

> > yes !

> > Personally I am mostly interested in the JVM and its future, but yes
> > there is plenty going on. I was poking fun.
> > And I do love python too.

> > On Apr 9, 1:53 am, "Viktor Klang" <viktor.kl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > A Scalaposse would be awesome *hinthint*

> > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Dick Wall <dickw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > > Need to put the record straight on a couple of things...

> > > > I am primarily working on Google App Engine right now, but that is
> > > > because it has just launched, and launching products are very
> > > > needy :-). I am also an Android evangelist and there is a reason I
> > > > can't say more about this, but I can't tell you what that reason
> > > > is :-). Hopefully it will change soon. As time goes on, Google App
> > > > Engine will not be my primary project but will share my time with the
> > > > others, and I still work with Java a lot in my day to day :-).

> > > > Tor still works with Java every single day too. NetBeans is still
> > > > written in Java, even if he is working on support for other languages.
> > > > Believe me, there is plenty of Java activity to go around between the
> > > > four of us.

> > > > Cheers

> > > > Dick

> > > > On Apr 8, 3:10 am, Casper Bang <casper.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > I thought Dick was Android evangelist - though I did wonder why we
> > > > > never hear anything about it?!

> > > > > /Casper

> > > > > On Apr 8, 11:42 am, Michael Neale <michael.ne...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > > > > So Carl is the only member of the posse who has anything to do
> > with
> > > > > > java day to day ;)

> > > > > > well, maybe Tor a little ;)

> > > > > > On Apr 8, 6:09 pm, "Van Riper" <van.ri...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > > > > > I was at the Google CampFire One event tonight where they
> > launched
> > > > > > > Google App Engine:

> > > > > > >http://code.google.com/appengine/

> > > > > > > Dick Wall was there too. I learned that he is going to be
> > spending
> > > > > > > most of his time as a developer advocate for App Engine. The
> > > > > > > interesting thing is the only supported runtime initially will
> > be
> > > > > > > Python. Thus, my message subject. Please tell us Dick that Java
> > is
> > > > > > > high on the list of runtimes that support will be added for in
> > the
> > > > > > > near future. In the mean time, I'll have to learn Python. I was
> > > > > > > waiting for a good excuse to do that anyway. :-)

> > > > > > > -Van

> > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > | Michael "Van" Riper
> > > > > > > |http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/
> > > > > > > |http://www.linkedin.com/in/vanriper
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> > > --
> > > Viktor Klang
> > > Rogue Software Architect