-Java 7 is underwhelming, mostly because it will not have closures. It will however introduce enhancements to speed up Groovy, JRuby, and Scala

-If I read between the lines what features are in HTML and any of them are supported by Chrome, then I think that HTML5+Chrome could easily turn into a gaming platform!

-There is no question that Groovy is the “next big thing” for Java. Get on board.

-A java developer could easily add Hadoop to his resume (and dollars to his pocket), by learning Hadoop with Cascading. Hadoop-worthy scale data sets are available for free from amazon: http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/

Grails is really cool. I wish there was a hosting platform available that was anything close to Heroku for Rails. I think it is unlikely that we will hear any good Startup stories with Grails for that reason.

I published my first ever screen cast tonight. enjoy!

The source code is available here: https://github.com/clickonchris/facebooker-demo

1 – using the New Javascript SDK
doc: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/

(identified by the js library http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js)

<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js"></script> 
<script type="text/javascript">
   FB.init({appId: 'your app id',
        status: true,
      cookie: true,
      xfbml: true});
   FB.Event.subscribe('auth.sessionChange', function(response) {
     if (response.session) {
       // A user has logged in, and a new cookie has been saved
     } else {
       // The user has logged out
     }
   });
</script>

2 – Using the Old Javascript SDK
which is what our friends at StackOverflow have done. I reference this thread because it kept coming up while I was solving this problem, and the solution they give is outdated.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/820421/can-i-use-facebooks-fbfriend-selector-in-an-iframe

(identified by the js library http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php and xd_receiver.html)
doc:http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/oldjavascript/

<script src="http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    FB_RequireFeatures(
        ["CanvasUtil"],
        function(){
                 FB.XdComm.Server.init('/xd_receiver.html');
                 FB.CanvasClient.startTimerToSizeToContent();
        }
    );
</script>

<script type="text/javascript">
    FB_RequireFeatures(["XFBML"], function(){ FB.Facebook.init("Your Facebook API Key", "/xd_receiver.html"); });       
</script>

JavaScript Language Reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference

Other great javascript links:

JQuery Reference: http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page

Closure Compiler: http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/

<span style="color: #008000;">  $(document).ready(function(){
    // Your code here...
  });</span>