Cool concurrency feed and some links

Google Reader recommended a new feed to me today: Concurrency. I have to say, that was pretty smart of it. Sure, that word appears a lot in some of the feeds I frequent - it's still nice that it brought it to my attention, as I otherwise was missing out on it.

Right off the bat there is a sweet post: Concurrency in Maven. This then lead me to see there are other cool posts at In Code We Trust Inc, like this one on concurrent junit test execution.

Google Reader has made my day with this find, and I thought people might find the links interesting.

Some Maven 3.0 Info

I do intend to investigate Gradle, but I can't shake the feeling that Maven 3 will really rock. On that note, about all I have time for tonight is to pull together a few links. Nothing a couple minutes of searching couldn't accomplish, but hopefully it is of value.

Here's a presentation that happened all the way back in April. I'm sure there are more recent ones, so I'll try to update with additional links. There are (not surprisingly) quite a lot of good posts on the Sonatype blog. In particular, there is a series of posts titled "Paving the desire lines". It's very satisfying reading a developer talk about the small finishing touches to a project with real passion. I haven't read the whole post yet (and I spot 2 parts so far), but it has my appetite whet.

Maven 3.0 alphas have been coming out recently, with Alpha 3 coming out last Friday. I just grabbed it tonight (seems to be alpha 4 now) and took it for a quick spin. To test it, I built Hudson/main, which has 4.0.0 POMs.

This merits close following...

UPDATE: Walter linked a more recent video+slide presentation by Jason van Zyl