Last September, we got Java 21, a Long Term Support (LTS) version with eight new big features and seven incubator or preview features. Does Java 22 also bring that much innovation, or is it just a bug-fix release? And what needs to be done to get such a release published on time? Let's find out...

Speakers

Loïc Mathieu

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/lo%C3%AFc-mathieu-475b144
• https://www.loicmathieu.fr/wordpress/en/
• https://mastodon.online/@loicmathieu
• https://twitter.com/loicmathieu
• https://kestra.io/

Simon Ritter

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/siritter/
  
• https://mastodon.social/@speakjava
  
• https://twitter.com/speakjava
  
• https://www.azul.com/
  

Podcast Host: Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
  
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankdelporte/
  

Content

Once a month in this podcast, we talk about the history of a Java User Group and the people behind it. We have a special group in this episode as we visit the virtual Quarkus Club. This initiative started less than a year ago and is already one of the biggest groups in the world dedicated to Quarkus.

Links

• https://discord.com/invite/NUsVvZp7hs
• https://www.youtube.com/@QuarkusClub
• https://github.com/igfasouza/Choose-the-right-JDK-to-your-Quarkus-application

Speakers

Igor De Souza

• https://twitter.com/Igfasouza
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/igfasouza/

Luis Fabrício De Llamas

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisfabriciodellamas/
  

Podcast Host: Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
  
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankdelporte/
  

Content

Music

• Barbershop John
• Hermine Deurloo
• Synapse by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

As a developer we all want to write bug free and high quality code. Writing tests is a crucial part to achieve this. Let’s explore the art of ensuring robust and bug-free code in the Java ecosystem. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting out, there’s a lot you can learn from the experts in this podcast about testing methodologies, tools, and best practices, empowering you to write reliable Java applications.

Guests

Oleg Šelajev

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/shelajev/
• https://medium.com/@shelajev
• https://twitter.com/shelajev 

Roni Dover

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronidover/
• https://twitter.com/doppleware 

Jonas Geiregat

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonas-geiregat-a8421a31/
• https://jonasg.io/posts/
• https://twitter.com/jonas_grgt 
• https://jonasg.io/posts/unit-test-ambiguity/ 

Podcast

Host: Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankdelporte/

Content

00:00 Introduction of the topic and guests
02:38 Is the testing pyramid still valid?
   https://jonasg.io/posts/relevance-of-the-classical-testing-pyramid/   
04:51 Introducing the Testing Honeycomb
05:50 Changes in the architecture of application and testing frameworks
06:52 What is the border between unit, system, and integration test?
16:17 Unit tests as behavior tests
21:11 Defining a testing strategy and the cost of change
26:45 Your tests also need architecting
31:18 How Testcontainers can simplify mocking and tests as a developer productivity tool
40:20 The cost of flaky tests
41:24 What type of feedback can we get from tests?
49:24 Digma plugin for IntelliJIDEA
49:49 Testing with AI
59:47 Should developers love writing tests?
01:18:40 Conclusion

Music

• Barbershop John
• Hermine Deurloo
• Synapse by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
  

Once a month in this podcast, we talk about the history of a Java User Group and the people behind it. Today, we are traveling to Cape Town and Johannesburg to learn more about its Java communities.

Java User Groups

Jozi-JUG

• https://www.meetup.com/Jozi-JUG/ 
• https://www.youtube.com/@JoziJUG
• https://twitter.com/jozijug
  

Cape Town Java Community

• https://www.meetup.com/Cape-Town-Java-Meetup/
• https://www.youtube.com/@capetownjug
• https://twitter.com/capetownjug
  

Guests

Corneil du Plessis

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/corneil/
• https://twitter.com/corneil
• https://hachyderm.io/@corneil 
  

Steven Makunzva

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenmakunzva/
  

Podcast

Host: Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankdelporte/
  

Content

00:00 Introduction of the guests
04:14 What should we know about South Africa?
09:42 An anecdote about living and working in Cape Town
12:29 Stevens history in Java
16:18 How Steven got involved in the JUG
19:14 History of JoziJUG
21:52 Virtual JUGs during Covid
24:02 Restart after Covid with in-person events
27:02 Next events at the JoziJUG
31:45 Interaction between speakers and attendees
33:24 Starting as a speaker at a JUG
37:00 Future events at Cape Town Java Community
38:38 Most remarkable sessions of the past
47:01 Conclusions
https://foojay.io/today/join-slack-com-t-foojay-signup/

Music

• Barbershop John
• Hermine Deurloo
• Synapse by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com 
  

When starting to build a new website, you are facing a major challenge. Which framework should you use? Angular, React, Vue, Svelte? They are all based on JavaScript and can be the right choice depending on your needs. But do you really need one of these frameworks? Why would you not just stick to Java and use one of the many great libraries that are available for it?

Guests

Martijn Dashorst

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/dashorst/
• https://mastodon.social/@dashorst
• https://twitter.com/dashorst
• https://martijndashorst.com

Marcus Hellberg

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcushellberg/
• https://mstdn.social/@marcushellberg
• https://twitter.com/marcushellberg
• https://marcushellberg.dev/  
  

Podcast Host

Host: Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankdelporte/
  

Links

Wicket

• https://wicket.apache.org/
• https://builtwithwicket.tumblr.com
• https://nightlies.apache.org/wicket/guide/10.x/single.html
• https://wicket.apache.org/start/quickstart.html
• https://wicket.apache.org/learn/#migrations
• https://github.com/apache/wicket
• https://twitter.com/apache_wicket  
  

Vaadin

• https://vaadin.com/
• https://start.vaadin.com
• https://github.com/vaadin/
• https://vaadin.com/components
• https://twitter.com/vaadin
• https://foojay.io/?s=vaadin
• https://foojay.io/today/video-vaadin-drag-drop-support-its-so-easy/
• https://foojay.io/today/enterprise-java-application-development-with-jakarta-ee-and-vaadin/
• https://foojay.io/today/how-to-style-a-vaadin-application/
• https://foojay.io/today/blink-a-led-on-raspberry-pi-with-vaadin/ 
  

Thymeleaf / htmx

• https://www.thymeleaf.org/
• https://htmx.org/
• https://foojay.io/today/book-review-modern-frontends-with-htmx/
• https://foojay.io/today/new-book-taming-thymeleaf/
• https://foojay.io/today/controlling-an-lcd-display-with-spring-and-thymeleaf-on-the-raspberry-pi/ 
  

Content

00:00 Introduction of the topic and guests
01:37 About Apache Wicket
03:26 About Vaadin
06:37 How these frameworks exchange data between server and client
09:38 Comparing to Thymeleaf
11:16 About htmx
https://foojay.io/today/book-review-modern-frontends-with-htmx/ 
14:42 How the Apache Foundation works
https://apache.org/  
19:20 License model of Vaadin
21:26 Wicket and Vaadin "in the wild"
https://vaadin.com/blog/liukuri-uses-vaadin-flow-to-help-finnish-households-navigate-the-energy-crisis  
https://liukuri.fi/  
https://api.pi4j.com/ 
https://4drums.media/  
26:03 Java developers can build full web applications with only Java without being full-stack
27:47 Could JavaFX become a web-development framework?
29:35 About WebComponents
32:14 How the company Vaadin is making money from opensource
34:31 The future of Wicket, htmx, Vaadin,…
39:55 Which kind of project to build with Wicket or Vaadin
46:18 Links  
48:54 Searching Vaadin docs with AI
https://marcushellberg.dev/how-to-build-a-custom-chatgpt-assistant-for-your-documentation 
51:21 Conclusions

Music

• Barbershop John
• Hermine Deurloo
• Synapse by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com  
  

“Public static void main string array” are the first words everyone sees when they start their first Java Hello World experiments. Some teachers explain them, while others say you will understand each word later.

Is this a problem to attract more Java developers? And how can we make the Java language more attractive for newbies? Let’s ask some experts…

Guests

Elvira van der Ven

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/elvira-van-der-ven-5260b48/
• https://twitter.com/ElviraVanDerVen  

Matt Raible

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/mraible/
• https://twitter.com/mraible

Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte

Podcast Host

Deepu K Sasidharan

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepu05/
• https://deepu.tech/
• https://mastodon.social/@deepu105
• https://twitter.com/deepu105

Content

00:00 Introduction of the topic, guests, and host
02:40 Is Java a good language for beginners?

• https://sdkman.io/ 
• https://www.jbang.dev/ 

07:38 What other languages should be taught?
12:10 First languages learned by the guests
14:51 Does Java have a boilerplate issue?

• https://foojay.io/today/java-21-jep-445-unnamed-classes-and-instance-main-methods/ 

24:01 Which Java version to learn for teaching?
26:41 How to make Java more attractive to beginners

• https://pi4j.com/examples/jbang/ 
• https://webtechie.be/post/2023-12-14-jbang-fxgl/ 

35:54 Python versus Java
43:34 Tips for starters

• https://foojay.io/java-quick-start/ 
• https://foojay.io/today/category/java-beginner/ 

49:23 What language gives the best job opportunities
56:55 Outro

Music

Barbershop John
Hermine Deurloo
Synapse by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Once a month in this podcast, we talk about the history of a Java User Group and the people behind it. Today, we are traveling to the Dominican Republic to learn more about the country and its Java community.

Guests

Brayan Muñoz Vargas

• https://twitter.com/Brayanmnz_
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/brayanmnz/

Eudris Cabrera Rodriguez

• https://twitter.com/eudriscabrera
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/eudriscabrera/ 
  

Podcast

Host: Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte

Content

00:00 Introduction
01:10 About the Dominican Republic
02:02 About JavaDominica
04:43 Cooperation with other Caribbean and Latin-American JUGs
06:16 Spanish as the main language
07:13 Gender mix of the community
08:05 Java education in Dominican Republic
11:16 About JConf Domonica

• https://jconfdominicana.org
• https://jconfdominicana.org/archive/jconf2023/speakers

15:40 Java in Education Community Award

• https://jcp.org/java-in-education
• https://jcp.org/en/press/news/awards/2023awards
• http://www.alice.org/
• https://scratch.mit.edu/
• https://webtechie.be/post/2023-09-18-jep-445-unnamed-classes-and-instance-main-methods/

20:11 Best and worst JUG session
22:26 Personal motivation to be part of the organisation
25:06 Java career opportunities
27:47 Plans for the future
30:13 How to get in contact

• https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/java-dominicano-talks-219639
• https://site.javadominicano.org/
• https://github.com/JavaDominicano
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/javadominicano
• https://twitter.com/javadominicano
• https://t.me/javadominicano

32:33 Invitation to publish on Foojay

• https://foojay.io/today/how-to-submit-your-next-article-on-foojay-io/
• https://foojay.io/today/join-slack-com-t-foojay-signup/

33:12 Outro

Music

    Barbershop John
    Hermine Deurloo
    Synapse by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com 

Java was born in 1995, when the internet as we know it today, didn’t exist yet. Cloud servers, Docker, Kubernetes, distributed systems, scaling up and down,… These things are now part of our daily job, but Java wasn’t originally designed for it. In this episode, we want to learn if the recent evolutions in OpenJDK, and ongoing related projects, will make Java a full Cloud member.

Guests

Grace Jansen

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-jansen/
• https://twitter.com/gracejansen27

Mark Heckler

• https://mastodon.cloud/@mkheck
• https://twitter.com/mkheck
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/markheckler/

Guillaume Laforge

• https://uwyn.net/@glaforge
• https://twitter.com/glaforge
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/glaforge/

Podcast Host: Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte
  

Content

00:00 Introduction of the topic and guests
04:10 How much Java is running in the cloud?
08:04 How Java is growing as a cloud programming language
10:30 Java is secure thanks to the updates every 3 months
12:02 Features in new versions towards the cloud
13:01 Finding the right cloud cost balance
18:38 Measuring energy usage to know your ecological impact
23:27 Developers also need to monitor the cloud cost
25:14 We all make mistakes and have unused cloud services
27:44 Project duration on-premise versus cloud
30:48 Evolutions in Java towards the cloud
32:40 Project CRaC and InstantOn

• https://docs.azul.com/core/crac/crac-introduction
• https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/instanton.html
  

34:36 How the community pushes Java forward

• https://openjdk.org/projects/leyden/
  

37:24 Frameworks supporting cloud improvements
40:44 New and shiny is not always the best
44:35 How to fix problems in a cloud environment

• https://opentelemetry.io/
• https://microprofile.io/specifications/microprofile-telemetry/
• https://micrometer.io/
• https://testcontainers.com/

51:15 Microservices versus Monolith

• Chasing the ball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJYsregPlM4

55:40 Some final thoughts about AI
58:26 Outro

Related Foojay Posts

• https://foojay.io/today/java-21-and-the-upcoming-jakarta-ee-11-a-new-era-of-cloud-native-java/
• https://foojay.io/today/how-to-build-and-deploy-a-real-time-cloud-based-logging-system/
• https://foojay.io/today/how-to-reduce-cloud-cost-by-99-for-eda-kafka-applications/
• https://foojay.io/today/unified-event-driven-architecture-for-the-cloud-native-enterprise/
• https://foojay.io/today/how-to-deploy-a-vaadin-application-to-google-cloud-app-engine/
• https://foojay.io/today/why-a-cloud-native-database-must-run-on-k8s/
• And many more… https://foojay.io/page/2/?s=cloud

Music

• Barbershop John
• Hermine Deurloo
• Synapse by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com 
  

Check the previous Foojay Podcasts for the first three parts of our J-Fall report. That one-day conference in the Netherlands in November was packed with amazing sessions. In this episode, you’ll get the remaining interviews we made that day. And as they say, last but not least, again, we have some fascinating insights for you into Java and its evolutions.

00:00 Introduction

00:38 Maurice Naftalin: Collections, Java history

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/maurice-naftalin/
• https://twitter.com/mauricenaftalin

06:27 Ron Veen and David Vlijmincx: Virtual Threads, Jakarta EE

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-veen/
• https://twitter.com/ronveen
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-vlijmincx/
• https://twitter.com/David_Vlijmincx
• https://www.amazon.nl/Cloud-Native-Development-Migration-Jakarta-cloud-native/dp/1837639620 
  

12:37 Ivar Grimstad: Jakarta EE

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivargrimstad/
• https://mastodon.social/@ivar_grimstad
  
• https://twitter.com/ivar_grimstad

17:20 Johannes Bechberger: Profiling

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-bechberger/
• https://mastodon.social/@parttimenerd 
  
• https://twitter.com/parttimen3rd
  
• https://openjdk.org/jeps/435

21:46 Mohammed Aboullaite: Continuous Profiling

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/aboullaite/
• https://twitter.com/laytoun

26:17 Hilbrand Bouwkamp: Profiling, Development practices, Pi4J

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilbrandbouwkamp/
• https://mastodon.nl/@Hilbrand
• https://twitter.com/hilbrand
• https://foojay.social

30:48 Paco van Beckhoven: Mutation Testing, Code Quality, Evolutions

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/pacovanbeckhoven/

33:34 Willem van de Griendt: Organizing JUGs

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/willemvandegriendt/
• https://twitter.com/Willemvdg
  
  36:53 Conclusion
  

Host: Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankdelporte/
• https://foojay.io/today/author/frankdelporte/

Music

• Barbershop John
• Hermine Deurloo
• Synapse by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com 
  

In Episodes 33 and 34 of the Foojay Podcast, you got the first two parts of our JFall Report. But on that single-day conference, we had many more interesting interviews, so this is part 3! Later, we will talk about JOOQ, Desktop Applications, and Security. But first… Maven. It’s one of the most used tools in Java development, and we can learn a lot from different experts who joined me for an interview. Let’s start with Ixchel, who gave both a workshop and a talk.

00:00 Introduction

00:42 Ixchel Ruiz: Dev Tools, Maven en Gradle, GitHub Actions

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ixchelruiz/
• https://mastodon.social/@ixchelruiz
  
• https://twitter.com/ixchelruiz

04:40 Maarten Mulders: Maven, Open Source Projects

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/mthmulders/
• https://mastodon.online/@mthmulders
  
• https://twitter.com/mthmulders
  

11:25 Jamie Coleman: Sonatype, Maven repository

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-coleman/
  
• https://twitter.com/Jamie_Lee_C 

19:35 Gerrit Grunwald: Java and Security, JavaFX

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerritgrunwald/
• https://mastodon.social/@hansolo_
  
• https://twitter.com/hansolo_

22:36 Anthony Goubard: Swing, Desktop apps

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonygoubard/
• https://foojay.social/@anthony_goubard 
• https://twitter.com/Anthony_Goubard
  

26:54 Gijs Leussink: HTMX, Thymeleaf, Micronaut

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/gjfleussink/

30:31 Simon Martinelli: JOOQ, Hibernate, Vaadin, How to become a JUG speaker

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonmartinelli/
• https://mastodon.social/@SimonMartinelli
• https://twitter.com/simas_ch
  
  38:02 Outro
  
  Host: Frank Delporte
• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankdelporte/
• https://foojay.io/today/author/frankdelporte/
  
  Music

• Barbershop John
• Hermine Deurloo
• Synapse by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com 
  

Once a month in this podcast, we talk about the history of a Java User Group and the people behind it. Today, we are traveling to Dublin to learn more about its Java community.

Links

• https://dubjug.org/
• https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8513472/
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/dubjug/
• https://twitter.com/dubjug
• https://www.youtube.com/@dubjug/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=0
  

Guest: Barry Alistair

• https://twitter.com/BarryAlistair
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/barryalistair/ 
  

Podcast Host: Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
  
• https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte
  

Content

00:00 Introduction
00:47 History of the Dublin JUG
04:42 Motivation to organise the JUG
07:31 Playing trumpet as a side effect…
- Hornplayer: Maarten Mulders: https://ti.to/dublin-java-user-group/feb-2023-java-champion-maarten-mulders 
08:40 Only one bad memory (and it’s not Gerrit)
- Dr. Evil: https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Parodies_%26_Imitations?file=Dr._Evil_%28Austin_Powers%29.png 
11:41 Reason to invite conference speakers
14:29 Attracting new speakers, the goal for 2024
16:06 Impact of Covid on the Dublin Java community
23:01 Getting back to normal gradually…
24:39 Plans for 2024
26:33 “Don’t speak to the people you already know”
29:43 Call out to people who want to start a JUG
30:35 Cooperation with other Irish JUGs
31:50 Conclusions

On November 9th, we had several interviews with the speakers and guests at the J-Fall conference in the Netherlands. Last week, in episode 33 of the Foojay Podcast, you could hear discussions about the evolution of Java towards the cloud and sustainability. In this part, we will touch on various topics related to the developers' lives.

00:00 Introduction

00:45 Elien Callens and Tom Cools: Leaving a Legacy

• https://twitter.com/elien_callens
  
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/elien-callens
• https://mastodon.social/@TCoolsIT
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-cools-17547548/
• https://twitter.com/TCoolsIT
• https://bejug.github.io/
  
  06:07 Louëlla Creemers: Burn out, C# versus Java
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/louelladev/
  
  11:25 Willem Cheizoo: IKEA effect
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/willemcheizoo/
• https://twitter.com/willem_hetzijzo
  
  15:06 Tim te Beek: OpenRewrite
• https://twitter.com/TimteBeek
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/timtebeek/
• https://foojay.io/today/openrewrite-automatic-code-refactoring-and-maintenance/
• https://foojay.io/today/we-all-grow-older-but-do-our-projects-really-have-to-openrewrite/
  
  20:10 Elvira van der Ven: Java in Education
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/elvira-van-der-ven-5260b48/
  
  23:17 Lutske de Leeuw: Machine Learning
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/lutske/
  
  29:00 Roy Wasse: Certification and job interviews
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/roywasse/
• https://twitter.com/roywasse
• https://foojay.io/today/foojay-developer-certification-measure-skills/
  
  32:53 Outro

Host
Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankdelporte/
• https://foojay.io/today/author/frankdelporte/
  
  Music
• Barbershop John
• Hermine Deurloo
• Synapse by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com 
  

A few months ago, we asked the J-Fall organization team if a Foojay Broadcast Room would be a good idea. And they said yes, so suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of the entrance of the Pathé cinema in Ede in the Netherlands, with a camera and microphones. During the day, we had a lot of exciting talks. There are way too many to fit in one podcast, so in the following weeks, you will get different episodes handling a lot of topics. This is part 1, and we talk about J-Fall of course. But also about the evolutions in Java and how it’s becoming the best cloud environment while keeping systems sustainable, and reducing the ecological, financial, and security impact of applications.

00:00 Introduction

00:59 Brian Vermeer: About J-Fall

• https://twitter.com/BrianVerm
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianvermeer/
• https://mastodon.social/@brianverm
• https://jfall.nl
• https://nljug.org/
• https://foojay.io/today/author/bmvermeer/ 
  

03:50 Pratik Patel: Evolutions of Java

• https://twitter.com/prpatel
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/prpatel/
• https://mastodon.social/@prpatel
• State of Java Survey and Report 2023: https://www.azul.com/report/2023-state-of-java/ 
  
• OpenJDK Migration for Dummies: https://www.azul.com/openjdk-migration-for-dummies/
  

13:33 Grace Jansen: Cloud Java

• https://twitter.com/gracejansen27
  
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-jansen/

20:22 Mark van der Walle: FinOps, EcoOps

• https://twitter.com/mvdwalle
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/mvanderwalle/ 
  
  25:56 Ko Turk: Sustainability

• https://twitter.com/KoTurk77
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ko-turk-b271b929/
  
  30:37 Ionut Balosin: Sustainability and Green Engineering

• https://twitter.com/ionutbalosin
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ionutbalosin/

35:28 Deepu Sasidharan: Passkeys and Security

• https://twitter.com/deepu105
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepu05/
• https://mastodon.social/@deepu105
• https://foojay.io/today/author/deepu-sasidharan/

42:18 Outro

Host

Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankdelporte/
• https://foojay.io/today/author/frankdelporte/

Music

• Barbershop John
• Hermine Deurloo
• Synapse by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
  

Once a month we talk about the history of a JUG and the people behind it. Today we travel to the Philippines. A new generation of developers has taken over the organization of the JUG. And in addition, they are also involved in the organization of the Softcon conference. Let's talk about the history and future of the Java community in the Philippines.

Guests

Tristan Mahinay

• https://twitter.com/ph_tantan
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjtmahinay/
• https://blog.rjtmahinay.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/rjtmahinay/
  

Calen Legaspi

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/calenlegaspi/
• https://twitter.com/calenlegaspi

Jansen Marson Ang

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jansen-ang/

Kerby Martino

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerbymartino/
  
• https://twitter.com/kerbymart

Podcast

Host: Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte

Links

• https://www.meetup.com/java-user-group-ph/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/jugph/
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/jugph
• https://github.com/JUGPH
• https://softconph.com/
  

Content

00:00 Intro and introduction of the guests
03:40 How big is the Philippines Java community
05:07 History of Java in the Philippines
06:18 Topics presented at the JUG
07:05 Impact of Covid
07:43 About the Softcon conference
10:20 Mixing online and offline
12:02 Most remarkable JUG sessions
13:05 Involving younger visitors and speakers
13:42 Java at Philippine Universities
16:21 Future plans for the JUG
16:59 About LangChain4J
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD1MSLbs9KE (Lize Raes @ Devoxx)
18:59 AI topics on Softcon
19:33 Impact of AI on developer jobs
22:15 How can people join the JUG
24:27 Why being part of the JUG organization
27:38 About the age of different programming languages
30:37 The importance of the Philippines Java community
32:21 New upcoming website for the JUG
35:43 Outro

The first week of October, the 20th edition of Devoxx took place in Antwerp, Belgium. Over 3000 Java developers, speakers, and enthusiasts gathered to share their knowledge and learn from each other. I got the opportunity to walk around with a microphone and talk to visitors and speakers. Not all of them, as there were just too many people and too many exciting sessions happening simultaneously.

Also available with video on youtube.com/watch?v=VJJmoiP7e-I

Podcast

Host: Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte
  

Content

00:00 Introduction with the Father of Java
01:20 Stephan Janssen, founder of Devoxx
05:39 Celestino Bellone and Mike Seghers, members of the organization
06:12 What visitors want to learn and see
10:12 Why attending Devoxx
11:32 How is Java being used by the attendees
12:17 Anton Arhipov
13:19 Bruno Borges and Sean Phillips
18:10 Ivar Gramstad
20:51 Paul and Gail Anderson
23:16 Mario Fusco
24:39 Roni Dover
25:28 Nicolai Parlog
27:58 Renato Cavalcanti
29:17 Sami Ekblad
30:20 Mariama Diaby
30:58 AV room with Bart Vervaet  
32:20 James Gosling
36:14 Outro

Music

• Barbershop John
• Hermine Deurloo
  
• Synapse by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
  

On September 12th, I was invited to speak at the Utrecht JUG together with Hanno Embrechts. That was an ideal moment to grab my camera and microphones to interview the organisers and some of the guests. So this is a bit a special edition of the Foojay Podcast as it’s also available with video! An experiment that brought me great pleasure. I hope you like it too! So … let’s time travel and get back to Utrecht when I got the organizers before the camera just minutes before the first guests arrived…

Video is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzhDmWZilI4

Guests

Michel van Dongen

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelvandongen/
• https://twitter.com/VanDongenM

Willem van de Griendt

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/willemvandegriendt/
• https://twitter.com/Willemvdg
  

Elias Nogueira

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliasnogueira/
• https://twitter.com/eliasnogueira

Gerard Meijwaard

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerard-meijwaard-83a5827/
• https://twitter.com/GerardMei

Hanno Embregts

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannoembregts/
• https://twitter.com/hannotify
• https://foojay.social/@hannotify

Podcast

Host: Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte
  
  

Links

• https://www.meetup.com/Utrecht-Java-User-Group/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/javautrecht/
• https://twitter.com/utrechtjug
  
  

Content

00:00 Intro
00:45 Michel van Dongen about the history and organisation of UtrechtJUG
03:10 Impact of Covid and meeting in person
04:24 Motivation to organise a JUG
05:57 Relationship with NLJUG and other Dutch JUGs
07:18 Willem van de Griendt about his role in UtrechtJUG
08:23 Why Willem loves the Java community
09:40 What to learn from JUG events
10:56 Future plans for UtrechtJUG
12:05 Guests are arriving
12:18 Interview with guest, Elias Nogueira
13:27 Interview with guest, Gerard Meijwaard
14:40 Introduction of Hanno Embregts
16:01 About speaking at JUGs and conferences
16:47 Being editor of the NLJUG Java Magazine
18:11 Hanno on stage
18:30 Outro

Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT are the talk of the town. Every conference has several talks about these technologies, and on Foojay, you can find multiple posts about it. In this podcast, we want to take a look at it from the Java point of view. How can we use AI in Java programs or our job as a developer?

Guests

Zoran Sevarac

Frank Greco

https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankdgreco/
https://twitter.com/frankgreco
https://www.javasig.com/

Roni Dover

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronidover/
https://twitter.com/doppleware

Podcast

Host: Frank Delporte

https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte

Content

00:00 Intro and introduction of the guests
02:31 Difference between AI, ML, DL, CV,…
06:30 How ChatGPT and LLMs works
07:50 AI with Java and DeepNetts
https://www.deepnetts.com/  
10:42  NYJavaSIG and how AI and ML are influencing the content
13:06 LLM is pattern matching, not a search tool
13:41 Java developers want to develop this with Java
15:03 Foojay articles about Java, AI, and DeepNetts
https://foojay.io/today/getting-started-with-deep-learning-in-java-using-deep-netts/
https://foojay.io/today/visual-recognition-for-chess-with-deep-learning-in-java-on-android/
https://foojay.io/today/deep-learning-in-java-for-drug-discovery/
https://foojay.io/today/quick-start-with-machine-learning-in-java/
17:40 Java Specification Request 381: Visual Recognition Specification
https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=381
https://github.com/JavaVisRec/visrec-api/wiki/Getting-Started-Guide  
21:51 How Digma is using is AI
https://digma.ai/
https://foojay.io/today/not-your-grandfathers-logs-a-java-librarys-new-approach-to-observability/
https://foojay.io/today/java-developer-vs-chatgpt-part-i-writing-a-spring-boot-microservice/
https://foojay.io/today/announcing-the-digma-beta-first-runtime-linter-for-java-code/
https://foojay.io/today/effective-coding-with-java-observability/
https://foojay.io/today/observing-java-applications-running-via-docker-compose-using-opentelemetry/
28:07 Will generated code be harder to debug?
https://foojay.io/today/java-developer-vs-chatgpt-part-i-writing-a-spring-boot-microservice/
32:29 Why companies don’t allow ChatGPT
34:53 Using these tools correctly (and locally?)
44:07 This is just the start of the evolution
48:05 What will AI bring to Java developers?
https://www.baeldung.com/java-project-panama
50:59 Involve other industries in the AI revolution
54:44 Machines don’t have emotions…
55:29 Conclusion

Since 2018, we get a new version of Java every 6 months. And version 21, released this month, will be a long-term support version that can be used for many years. It also brings a lot of new features and improvements in both the language and the runtime. Actually, there are so many that we’ll probably not get all of them discussed in this podcast! Let’s see what our experts find the most important facts we need to know about Java 21.

Guests

Mohamed Taman

• https://twitter.com/_tamanm
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamedtaman/
• https://foojay.io/today/hidden-and-not-so-hidden-gems-in-java-20/

Piotr Przybyl

• https://mstdn.social/@piotrprz
• https://twitter.com/piotrprz
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/piotrprzybyl/
• https://softwaregarden.dev/en/about-me/

Simon Ritter

• https://mastodon.social/@speakjava
• https://twitter.com/speakjava
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/siritter/

Podcast

Host: Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte

Content

00:00 Intro and introduction of the guests
01:51 Excitement about the OpenJDK 21 release
04:18 What is Long Term Support?
https://twitter.com/nipafx/status/1676908785313492992
06:07 Every OpenJDK release is stable and production-ready
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mohamedtaman_aws-activity-7101961717521264640-F8jh
11:44 Next LTS in two years
12:06 Should you wait a bit before using 21?
13:07 About JEPs, new versus incubator and preview
https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/21/
17:13 JEP 444: Virtual Threads
https://softwaregarden.dev/en/posts/new-java/loom/dont-look-at-virtual-threads/
22:30 JEP 430: String Templates
https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/java-21-sneak-peek
26:05 JEP 440: Record Patterns + JEP 441 Pattern Matching for switch
27:11 JEP 442: Foreign Function & Memory API (Third Preview)
29:05 Energy efficiency of Java
https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-least-electricity/
30:55 How Java evolves by inspiration of other languages
33:56 Difference between OpenJDK projects and JEPs
35:06 JEP 445: Unnamed Classes and Instance Main Methods (Preview)
40:55 Dummies book “OpenJDK Migration”
https://foojay.io/today/book-announcement-openjdk-migration-guide-for-dummies/
42:28 What will Java 22 bring?
43:27 JEP 443: Unnamed Patterns and Variables (Preview)
45:18 JEP 439: Generational ZGC
https://foojay.io/today/what-should-i-know-about-garbage-collection-as-a-java-developer/
49:33 Performance improvements by using newer runtimes
51:23 JEP 451: Prepare to Disallow the Dynamic Loading of Agents
52:37 Looking back at the 6-month release cycle introduction
55:00 Outro

Since December last year, the Foojay podcast virtually visited a Java User Group monthly. This journey has already brought us to many places around the world. And this time, we are in Chicago to learn from the Java and Kotlin user groups.

Guests

Mary Grygleski

• https://foojay.social/@mgrygles
• https://twitter.com/mgrygles

John Burns

• https://bigshoulders.city/@wakingrufus
• https://twitter.com/wakingrufus

Podcast

Host: Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte

Links

Chicago JUG

• https://twitter.com/CJUG
• https://foojay.social/@ChicagoJUG
• https://www.youtube.com/@ChicagoJavaUsersGroup
• https://www.meetup.com/chicagojug
• https://discord.gg/U25g437

Chicago Kotlin

• https://twitter.com/ChicagoKotlin
• https://foojay.social/@ChicagoKUG
• https://www.meetup.com/chicago-kotlin/
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWCHNOYemampfWXMUdQ95Sw
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb1tSwQ0ReIFFJbVpbNGIvmELaucyBTaL 

A gift from DataStax

DataStax Vector DB and Search (no credit card and $25 monthly complimentary usage for up to a year):  https://bit.ly/3L1Dkgi

Content

00:00 Intro and introduction of the guests
02:08 How Mary and John got into Java, Kotlin and user groups
06:55 History of the Chicago JUG
08:43 How Chicago switched from dotnet to Java in 2010’s
09:09 How Chicago JUG and KUG cooperate
13:04 Size of the communities
13:55 Impact of Covid and working-from-home
18:20 About streaming the event versus in-person
19:47 How to attract new visitors
23:00 Personal benefit of being part of a community
27:39 Speaking at conferences around the world
31:41 Most remarkable sessions
38:25 Outro

As developers, we like to automate the boring parts of our job. This automation includes the source control system, build pipelines, and code analysis tools. In recent decades, we have seen evolutions from CVS to Subversion to Git. Is this the endpoint? Did we find the holy grail in version control? Or what evolutions are waiting for us? Let’s find out together with these fantastic guests…

Guests

Trisha Gee (Gradle)

• @trisha_gee
• jvm.social/@trisha_gee 
• linkedin.com/in/trishagee/ 

Ixchel Ruiz (JFrog)

• @ixchelruiz
• mastodon.social/@ixchelruiz
• linkedin.com/in/ixchelruiz/

Pierre-Étienne Meunier (Pijul)

• fosstodon.org/@nuempe 
• linkedin.com/in/pierre-%C3%A9tienne-meunier-1b93b619b/

Podcast

Host: Hanno Embregts

• @hannotify
• foojay.social/@hannotify
• linkedin.com/in/hannoembregts/ 

Production: Frank Delporte

• @FrankDelporte
• foojay.social/@frankdelporte 

Content

00:00 Intro and introduction of the guests and host

04:15 Should we automate as much as possible to be able to focus on developing

06:33 The human factor of developer productivity engineering (DPE)

• Free book: gradle.com/developer-productivity-engineering/handbook/ 

10:23 PEs view on automation and how changes in law books follow the same approach as “code diffs”

17:02 How you can struggle with your version control system

• w3docs.com/learn-git/git-reflog.html
• dangitgit.com/
• leanpub.com/gettingtoknowIntelliJIDEA
• oreilly.com/library/view/learning-git/9781098133900/
• oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-git/9781492092506/ 

26:33 How Pijul tries to solve these challenges

• git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net
• pijul.org
  

33:24 Patches versus branches versus trunk-based development and how to switch from branch-approach

• foojay.io/today/why-i-prefer-trunk-based-development

44:09 What could be improved to version control systems

• conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/ 

50:16 Why are still so many people using Git

• reuters.com/article/us-france-ovh-fire-idUSKBN2B20NU

1:02:02 Looking 10 years into the future

1:13:30 Outro

Java and JavaFX are probably not the first options you consider if you want to create a game application. But the FXGL library allows you to do precisely that: create games that run on all platforms with the same codebase as we are used to with Java. And even without an extra library, the JavaFX Components and Canvas provide many animation and gaming possibilities. Let's learn from experts why Java should be on your game-development-language-list!

Guests

Chengen Zhao

• @WhiteWoodCity
• linkedin.com/in/chengenzhao/
• Steam game created with JavaFX: Xtrike

Almas Baim

• github.com/AlmasB
• @AlmasBaim
• youtube.com/almasb0/videos
• github.com/almasb/fxgl

Gerrit Grunwald

• @hansolo_
• mastodon.social/@hansolo_
• github.com/HanSolo/jarkanoid
• github.com/HanSolo/SpaceFX

Host

Frank Delporte

• linkedin.com/in/frankdelporte/
• foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• @FrankDelporte

Content

00:00 Intro and introduction of the guests

04:00 About FXGL

• Book review: "Learn JavaFX Game and App Development with FXGL 17 

08:48 How Chengen used FXGL to improve his Xtrike game

10:15 Combining 2D and 3D

11:20 The fascination of Gerrit for retro games

13:36 JavaFX components versus Canvas

19:09 Creating games while waiting in airports…

22:19 Convert to mobile and Steam apps

23:22 Question of Chengen if FXGL can extend view components 

24:58 How students are involved in the FXGL project

• Java in education

29:53 Why FXGL has a mix of Java and Kotlin

32:22 Building for mobile and the hassle with the app stores…

• Cross platform with Gluon and GraalVM
• Porting an app to iOS 
• Creating mobile apps with JavaFX 

38:58 3D in JavaFX

• Visualizing brain computer interface data
• JavaFX 3D history
• FXyz 

44:14 Status of Swing

47:13 About the Java community in China

49:23 Could a drag-and-drop animation tool be created for FXGL?

• EditorApp.java 

51:13 Use JavaFX FXML markup files? And can SceneBuilder provide a code-only approach?

55:34 Conclusion

The Foojay Java User Group World Tour has already brought us to a lot of different countries all over the world. But for this episode, the host decided to stay at home. The Belgium JUG (BeJUG) started in 1997 and was the birthplace of Devoxx, Devoxx4Kids, and VoxxedDays. And in our capital Brussels, we can join Brussels JUG (BruJUG), since 2010.

So there’s a lot we can talk about to learn more about communities and conferences!

Guests

Olivier Hubaut, BruJUG

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivierhubaut/ 
• https://mastodon.top/@ohubaut

Stephan Janssen, founder BeJUG, Devoxx, Devoxx4Kids, Voxxed

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanjanssen/
• https://twitter.com/Stephan007

Tom Cools, AntwerpJUG, BeJUG

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-cools-17547548/
• https://twitter.com/TCoolsIT
• https://mastodon.social/@TCoolsIT

Podcast host

Frank Delporte

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankdelporte/
• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte

Links

• https://www.meetup.com/belgian-java-user-group/
• https://www.meetup.com/BruJUG/
• https://devoxx.be/
• https://events.voxxeddays.com/

Content

00:00 Introduction of the topic and guests

02:19 History of BeJUG and the start of JavaPolis (Devoxx)

06:00 How BruJUG (Brussels) started and evolved

• https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-unseen-99

08:35 Tom as the winner of the bad timing award with AntwerpJUG

10:35 Impact of Covid on Devoxx and BruJUG

18:09 How BeJUG got restarted in 2022

• https://github.com/BeJUG/bejug.github.io 
• Video: "Transitioning into Tech: The Journey of a Senior Junior Developer by Ibrahim Dogrusoz"

27:05 How BruJUG attracted new speakers + tips for new speakers or new talks

31:32 How Devoxx4Kids grew to a worldwide event

36:03 The tools developed and used to manage Devoxx

41:13 About the name change from JavaPolis to Devoxx and the franchising

46:14 Future plans for Devoxx, BruJUG and BeJUG

51:14 CFP for Devoxx and how reviewers can find sessions for their JUG

54:16 Outro

How do you get the maximum performance out of your Java application? And how to use profiling to find the bottlenecks? Let's learn it in this podcast!

Java profiling is a crucial technique for measuring and improving the performance of applications. It helps identify bottlenecks, memory leaks, and other application performance issues. There are various challenges with using Java profiling, and the need for profiling depends on the complexity of the application and the performance requirements. Let us learn more about the challenges, different profiling approaches, and when to use Java profiling to reach the best performance with our Java code.

Guests

Chris Newland

• @chriswhocodes
• mastodon.social/@chriswhocodes
• chriswhocodes.com/

Marcus Hirt

• @hirt
• hirt.se/blog/ 

Heinz Kabutz

• @heinzkabutz
• linkedin.com/in/heinzkabutz
• www.javaspecialists.eu/ 

Podcast

Host: Marcus Lagergren

•  @lagergren

Production: Frank Delporte

•  @FrankDelporte
•  foojay.social/@frankdelporte 

Content

00:00 Introduction of the host and guests

• jitwatch 
• jacoline
• foojay.io/command-line-arguments 
• Book Optimizing Java
• JCrete

10:42 History of Java and how performance was a challenge in the beginning

14:21 What is profiling? What should be profiled? What is good profiling?

28:44 What you should learn about profiling and performance

31:43 Impact of the different garbage collectors on performance

32:59 Performance and profile should focus on the right requirement for your system

34:39 Ergonomics in the JVM and tunes itself for the system it is running on

• mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2023-May/074325.html

39:49 What are current important evolutions and upcoming coming or required changes in profiling?

43:19 Break-throughs in Stop-The-World approaches

46:43 Minimize the number of JVM flags you use

• https://jacoline.dev/stats 

56:47 About Errors and Exceptions

58:30 The current runtimes and operating systems are very forgiving

• https://openjdk.org/jeps/312 (Thread-Local Handshakes)
• https://openjdk.org/jeps/444 (Virtual Threads)

1:04:26 Is profiling becoming less relevant?

• foojay.io/today/continuous-production-profiling-and-diagnostics

1:10:20 Conclusion

Grab your Lego and robots, and let's talk about STEM, STEAM, and programming for fun!

As a developer, we all get frustrated occasionally when a bug messes up our schedule, and we have to dive deep into the code to find a solution. But still, many of us keep coding in our free time as we love to do it and want to create amazing stuff. In this episode of the Foojay Podcast, we talk to volunteers from different organizations where coding is used to inspire children to become engineers or at least learn to make good use of computers and the tools around them.

Guests

• Jeanne Boyarsky
  • Twitter @jeanneboyarsky 
  • https://www.selikoff.net
  • Mastodon @jeanneboyarsky
• Monica Beckwith
  • Twitter @mon_beck
• Igor De Souza
  • Twitter @Igfasouza

Podcast host

• Frank Delporte 
  • Mastodon @frankdelporte
  • Twitter @FrankDelporte

Content

• 00’00 Intro
• 00’43 Introduction of the guests
• 03’00 What is First?
  • First Inspires
  • FRC Robot reveal
  • FLL Events
  • Televic Smarties at FLL
• 06’43 What is CoderDojo?
• 07’46 Impact on your career by volunteering
• 09’00 Impact of these organizations on STEM education
  • Scratch 
• 14’00 The rule of three
  • Code Chica
• 16’48 Girls-only events 
• 24’13 What we learn from volunteering for our job
  • Microbit
• 28’16 Technology that can inspire the most
  • Particle
  • Onshape
• 36’09 Participants becoming coach
• 37’58 Java on small platforms like Raspberry Pi 
  • LCD Display
  • Potentiometer
  • Micronaut
  • Quarkus
  • Book #JavaOnRaspberryPi
• 43'39 Java in education
• 47’15 STEM versus STEAM
  • Nervous Jessica
• 53’37 Other interesting STEAM topics
  • Coolest Projects
  • Formula Pi
  • Pi Wars
  • Astro Pi
  • First Inspires
  • CoderDojo
  • Code.org
  • Documentation drive of CoderDojo Belgium
  • Microsoft TEALS
• 59’45 Outro

Once a month, the Foojay Podcast virtually visits a JUG to talk with the people behind it. SouJava, the Brazil JUG, was founded in 1999, and according to Wikipedia, it’s recognized as the world’s largest Java User Group with 40,000 members! There’s a lot we can learn from the people who achieved this.

Guests

• Otavio Santana
  • https://twitter.com/otaviojava
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/otaviojava/
  • https://www.youtube.com/@otaviojava
• Maximillian Arruda 
  • https://twitter.com/maxdearruda
  • https://mastodon.social/@maxdearruda
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxarruda/
  • https://linktr.ee/maxdearruda
• Bruno Souza
  • https://twitter.com/brjavaman
  • https://code4.life/
  • Free book: http://jav.mn/bestyear

Podcast host

• Frank Delporte 
  • @[email protected]
  • https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte

Links

• http://soujava.org.br/
• https://www.meetup.com/SouJava/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SouJava

Content

• 00’00 Intro
• 00’26 Introduction of the guests
• 02’39 History of Java and SouJava
• 08’03 About working on open source projects and the relationship with JUGs
• 12’55 How Max became part of the JUG organizers and how to incrementally improve your skills
• 23’38 Impact of Covid and the advantage of in-person meetings
• 28’20 The best ways to grow as a developer, the spiral of growth
• 51’29 Trying to get back to the “new normal” with the JUGs
• 01h01’12 Conclusions

Functional programming, it seems you either love it or you hate it. But, like everything in software engineering, it is a trade-off. So for today, let's focus on the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of Functional programming.

Guests

• Alejandro Serrano, Software Engineer at 47 Degrees, author of "Practical Haskell", "The Book of Monads", and "FP Ideas for the Curious Kotliner"
  • https://serranofp.com/
  • https://twitter.com/trupill 
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandroserranomena/ 
• Deepu K Sasidharan, JHipster co-lead, Java Champion, Staff Dev Advocate @ Okta, Java, JS, Rust, Cloud Native Advocate, Author, Speaker
  • https://twitter.com/deepu105
  • https://mastodon.social/@deepu105 
  • https://deepu.tech/ 
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepu05/ 

Podcast 

• Host: Ties van de Ven
  • https://www.tiesvandeven.nl/
  • https://twitter.com/ties_ven
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/ties-van-de-ven-a24480a/
• Producer: Frank Delporte 
  • https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte 
  • https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte 

Links

• https://foojay.io/today/7-functional-programming-techniques-in-java-a-primer/ (Deepu)
• https://foojay.io/today/the-problem-with-functional-programming/ (Ties)
• https://www.baeldung.com/java-functional-programming 
  
  

Content

• 00’00 Intro
• 00’17 Introduction of the guests
• 07’40 What is functional programming (FP)?
• 11’50 The same problems exist in FP and Object Oriented Programming
• 13’50 Academic approach to programming
• 17’54 Who of the guests is a FP purist?
• 22’25 Understand the “Why”? Why use FP?
• 28’11 The costs of FP
• 30’57 When to learn FP
  • https://www.baeldung.com/java-monads
• 42’43 What is the future of FP?
• 50’41 Outro

Many developers spend a lot of their time on side projects. It’s an opportunity to learn new techniques and get involved in communities. But sometimes, it can also lead to a new job. Or even starting a business based on such a project. Today we are talking to people who achieved such a transition and became famous and rich, or at least some of each…

Guests

• Tim te Beek
  • https://twitter.com/TimteBeek 
  • https://docs.openrewrite.org
  • https://www.moderne.io
• Maarten Mulders
  • https://twitter.com/mthmulders 
• Lukas Eder
  • https://twitter.com/lukaseder
  • https://www.jooq.org/

Podcast host

• Frank Delporte 
  • https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte 
  • https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte 

Content

• 00’00 Intro
• 00’31 Introduction of the guests
• 02’28 What projects are the guests working on?
  • https://maven.apache.org/
  • Maven Central Search: https://github.com/mthmulders/mcs 
  • https://foojay.io/today/introduction-to-maven-toolchains/
  • https://docs.openrewrite.org
  • https://www.moderne.io
  • https://www.jooq.org/
  • https://foojay.io/today/5-great-reasons-to-use-jooq/ 
• 06’34 How Tim got a job at Moderne
• 08’23 The connection between OpenRewrite and Moderne
• 09’23 How jOOQ became a company
  • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-cathedral/0596001088/
  • https://scala-slick.org/
  • https://foojay.io/today/vaadin-and-jooq-match-made-in-heaven/
• 14’44 Building a product is more valuable compared to offering support
  • https://entreprenerd.lowagie.com/index.html
• 21’22 About open-source licenses
• 23’48 Why and how Info Support allows Maarten to work on open-source within working hours
• 27’47 What you can learn from an open-source project
• 28’54 Does every developer have to do be an open-source contributor?
• 32’13 Becoming rich thanks to open-source? Projects versus Products
  • https://s.apache.org/for-the-grabs_maven
• 48’33 About the Fosdem talk about OpenRewrite
  • https://foojay.io/today/foojay-io-at-fosdem-2023-trip-report/
  • https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/migrations/ 
• 48’53 Benevolent dictator for life and how to make money from a programming language
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life
  • https://business.jooq.org/
• 51’22 Outro

The Foojay Podcast Java User Group World Tour has already brought us to the UK, US, Dubai, and Japan. Today we travel back to the US to learn more about the Atlanta JUG, mainly because this week, they are organizing the DevNexus conference! Let’s learn about the challenges of organizing both a Java User Group and an entire conference…

Guests

• Pratik Patel
  • https://twitter.com/prpatel
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/prpatel/ 
  • Lead Dev Rel at Azul
• Vincent Mayers
  • https://twitter.com/vincentmayers
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentmayers/ 
  • Dev Community at Gradle

Podcast host

• Frank Delporte (@[email protected], @frankdelporte)

Links

• Atlanta JUG
  • https://ajug.org/
  • https://twitter.com/atlantajug
• DevNexus
  • 4-6th of April 2023, Atlanta US
  • https://devnexus.org/

Content

• 00’00 Intro
•  00’36 Introduction of the guests
•  01’37 How the Atlanta JUG started
  •  NYJavaSIG: https://www.javasig.com/
• 03’17 Why the guests joined the Atlanta JUG and became organizers
•  04’39 Impact of Covid
•  05’39 Venue is a hotel or co-working space
•  06’34 Atlanta JUG is a US non-profit
  • https://sessionize.com/s/vincentmayers/the-jug-business-tips-n-tricks-for-running-an-amaz/51617
•  10’22 Other people involved in the organization
•  12’27 Number of JUG visitors
•  14’04 Most remarkable sessions
•  16’35 Starting a JUG is “just do it”, a formal structure is not a requirement, and how to find speakers
  •  https://jugs.groups.io/g/jug-leaders
• 20’53 About DevNexus, how it started, the many tracks,…
  • https://devnexus.com/presentations/beyond-rest-and-crud-integration-patterns-in-microservices
  • https://devnexus.com/presentations/patterns-predictions-and-prescriptions 
  • https://foojay.io/today/visualizing-brain-computer-interface-data-using-javafx/ 
  • https://devnexus.org/presentations/observing-minecraft 
•  42’17 Who is visiting DevNexus and Atlanta JUG
•  52’16 Outro

TornadoVM is a programming and execution framework for offloading and running JVM applications on multi-core CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs. With the same code, some of your existing program code can be executed hundreds of times faster!

Guests

• Juan Fumero, TornadoVM Lead Architect
  • https://twitter.com/snatverk
• Christos Kotselidis, TornadoVM Project Leader
  • https://twitter.com/CKotselidis
• Thanos Stratikopoulos, TornadoVM Senior Solutions Architect
  • https://twitter.com/thanos_str
• Jakob Jenkov
  • https://twitter.com/jjenkov 

Podcast 

• Host: Erik Costlow
  • https://twitter.com/costlow
• Production: Frank Delporte 
  • https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte

Content

• 00’00 Intro
• 00’36 Introduction of the guests
• 04’26 What is TornadoVM?
  • https://foojay.io/today/hardware-acceleration-for-java-tornadovm-can-do-it/
  • https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/hardware/
  • https://www.tornadovm.org/
• 05’54 How applications can make use of the acceleration provided by TornadoVM
• 11’48 The difference between CPU threads and GPU instruction chain
• 13’42 Possible use cases for TornadoVM
• 15’23 Results on Apple M1
  • https://foojay.io/today/a-flavour-of-tornadovm-on-apple-m1-pro/
• 17’19 Can TornadoVM be used in cloud environments
• 21’18 How to use the API
  • https://foojay.io/today/migrating-applications-to-tornadovm-v0-15-part-1/
  • https://foojay.io/today/migrating-applications-to-tornadovm-v0-15-part-2/ 
• 24’41 Jakobs view of what would be a good match between TornadoVM and cloud usage on AWS Lambdas
  • https://foojay.io/today/azul-provides-the-crac-in-aws-snapstart-builds/
  • https://foojay.io/today/how-to-run-a-java-application-with-crac-in-a-docker-container/
  • AWS GPU and CPU capabilities: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-gpu.html 
• 30’54 The complexity of GPU and FPGA programming languages and handling the differences between different architectures of GPUs, CPUs, and FPGAs
  • https://www.khronos.org/ 
• 40’28 How TornadoVM could be used to heat up buildings, help to reduce the total cloud cost for companies, and run ChatGPT
• 43’30 Relationship between project Panama and TornadoVM
• 48’10 How to get started with TornadoVM
  • https://tornadovm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html
• 54’41 Outro

Since 2018, we get a new version of Java every 6 months. Some are long-term supported versions that can be used for many years, while others are only maintained for a short time. Version 20 is such a short-term supported version. So, what new features does this version bring? And why should we use it? And what can we expect from the next version, 21, in September that will be a long-term supported version? Let's find out and learn more about the process of the OpenJDK evolution!

Guests

• Simon Ritter
  • https://twitter.com/speakjava
  • https://mastodon.social/@speakjava 
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/siritter/
• Miro Wengner
  • https://twitter.com/miragemiko
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/mwengner/
  • https://www.amazon.de/dp/180461467X

Podcast host

• Frank Delporte
  • https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte
  • https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte

Content

• 00’00 Intro
• 00’40 Introduction of the guests
• 02’03 What new features does Java 20 bring?
  • https://foojay.io/today/what-the-heck-is-project-loom-for-java/
  • https://foojay.io/today/an-introduction-to-scoped-values-in-java/ 
• 03’46 What are preview and incubator features
• 07’16 Other changes in Java 20 and when we can expect them to be “finished”
  • https://foojay.io/today/thinking-about-massive-throughput-meet-virtual-threads/ 
• 10’01 Will all preview and incubator work get into a next version?
• 11’12 How OpenJDK evolves and new features are integrated
  • https://openjdk.org/projects/amber/
  • https://openjdk.org/projects/panama/
  • https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla/
• 13’25 About Miro’s book
• 15’28 About the module system
• 17’25 References from Miro’s book to the OpenJDK code
  • https://foojay.io/today/book-review-practical-design-patterns-for-java-developers/ 
  • https://foojay.io/today/42-practical-java-design-patterns-builder-and-more/ 
  • https://www.azul.com/blog/time-zone-and-currency-database-in-jdk/
• 20’41 Don’t implement yourself what already exists
• 25’51 The importance of the approach how you program
• 28’26 Thread improvements in Java 20
• 29’24 Why you should use Java 20 as a developer
• 30’22 Java 20 is a full stable release with the same quality as all other releases
• 31’11 How other new features will be included in Java 21
• 32’52 Phases of a release process
• 34’02 Updates in the JEPs related to Java 20
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlW724WaJJQ&t=1869s (when when when)
• 39’48 Outro

Last month we were in the US, and this time we travel to the other side of the world as we spoke with the organizers of the Japan JUG!

Guests

•  Shin Tanimoto
  • https://twitter.com/cero_t 
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/shintanimoto/
• Ayana Yokota 
  • https://twitter.com/ihcomega
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayana-yokota-ihcomega/
• Maaya Ishida 
  • https://twitter.com/maaya8585
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/maaya-ishida-5486b7109/ 

Podcast host

• Frank Delporte (@[email protected], @frankdelporte)

Links

• JJUG (Japan JUG)
  • Contact: https://jjug.doorkeeper.jp/contact/new 
  • https://twitter.com/JJUG 
  • https://facebook.com/japanjug 
  • JOnsen: https://jonsen.jp
  • JJUG CCC 2023 Spring: https://sessionize.com/jjug-ccc-spring-2023/
• Javajo (Java women user group) 
  • Contact: https://javajo.doorkeeper.jp/contact/new 
  • https://twitter.com/java_women 
  • https://facebook.com/groups/javajo 
  • https://instagram.com/javajo_tokyo/

Content

• 00'00 Intro and music 
• 00’13 About the topic of this podcast 
• 00'58 Introduction of the guests and host
•  02’46 The start of JJUG and Jajavo
  •  https://www.seasar.org
  •  https://www.seasar.org/en/  
  •  https://github.com/seasarorg
•  05’21 Personal reasons to organise a JUG
•  08’14 How many events are organised
•  09’08 Which speakers come to the events
•  09’57 Impact of Covid
•  12’59 The number and mix of attendees at Japanese events
•  14’26 Trends in popular topics
•  16’27 Plans for the future
  •  JOnsen: https://jonsen.jp
•  19’17 Questions for the listeners
•  20’56 Outro

Let's talk about debugging and observability. We work with debugging all the time, but how well do we know this common practice? Observability, monitoring, and debugging at scale for your production.

Guests

• A lot of rubber ducks
• Johannes Bechberger
  • JVM and profiler developer
  • Worked on the JDWP protocol and profiling
  • github.com/parttimenerd
  • twitter.com/parttimen3rd
  • mastodon.social/@parttimenerd 
  • Article: ASyncGetStackTrace
  • Article: Java Debugging Internals
• Marit van Dijk
  • Developer Advocate at JetBrains
  • maritvandijk.com
  • twitter.com/MaritvanDijk77
  • mastodon.social/@maritvandijk 
• Ties van de Ven
  • Software Engineer @ JDriven, Coach @ Jcore
  • www.tiesvandeven.nl
  • twitter.com/ties_ven
  • Article: 6 Steps To Debug

Host

• Shai Almog
  • Author of “Practical Debugging at Scale”
  • debugagent.com
  • mastodon.social/@debugagent
  • twitter.com/debugagent

Producer

• Frank Delporte

Content

• 00'00 Intro and music 
• 00'24 About the topic of this podcast 
• 00'58 Introduction of the guests and host
• 05'14 Debugging with IntelliJ IDEA and discoverability of tools
  • Debugger playlist
  • Profiling tools
  • Profiling live stream
• 13'27 JDWP protocol
  • psa-the-risks-of-remote-jdwp-debugging
  • a-short-primer-on-java-debugging-internals
• 19'43 Exception breakpoints
  • exception-breakpoint-that-doesnt-suck-and-a-real-use-case-for-method-breakpoints
• 20'34 External debugging tools
  • rubberduckdebugging.com
• 26’55 Observability
  • istio.io/latest/about/service-mesh
  • openjdk.org/jeps/435
• 37’58 What information should you look for while debugging
• 45’46 Be aware of tunnel vision while debugging
• 49’33 What to do if you don’t know where to search for the bug
  • git-scm.com/docs/git-bisect 
  • understand-the-root-cause-of-regressions-with-git-bisect/
• 57’05 Outro

We started the Foojay Podcast JUG World Tour in Manchester last December. Last month we were in Dubai. And now we are on the other side of the world in the US to meet the people behind the Denver and Boulder JUG.

Guests

• Greg Ostravich 
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregostravich/
  • https://twitter.com/GregOstravich
•  Zettie Chin-Fong
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/zettiechinfong/
•  Kris Woyna
•  Matt Raible
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/mraible/
  • https://twitter.com/mraible
  • https://raibledesigns.com

Podcast host

• Frank Delporte (@[email protected], @frankdelporte)

Links

• Denver JUG
  • https://www.meetup.com/DenverJavaUsersGroup/ 
  • http://www.djug.org/
  • https://twitter.com/denverjug
  • https://www.youtube.com/@DenverJUG 
• Boulder JUG
  • https://www.rule4.com/
  • https://www.meetup.com/colorado-kubernetes-cloud-native
  • https://www.meetup.com/boulderjavausersgroup/

Content

• 00'00 Intro and music 
• 00'14 About the topic of this podcast 
• 00'27 Introduction of the guests
• 03'20 The start of the Boulder and Denver JUGs 
• 05'48 The impact of Covid and going virtual
• 08'12 Both JUGs are 45' drive apart, and work together
• 10'14 The format of the JUGs with one or two speakers
• 11'17 How to find new speakers
• 16'36 How many attendees and the challenge of finding a venue
• 19'51 Restarting after Covid
• 21'58 More of the most remarkable sessions
• 25'39 Tips for speakers
• 31'19 Plans for the future
• 33'30 Mix of visitors
• 36'57 Tips to organize a JUG in different cities
• 39'11 The most crucial goals of a JUG
• 42'47 Outro

In this podcast,  we are talking to some of the key people working on different IDEs, Integrated Development Environments. Those are applications that provide tools to computer programmers for software development. An IDE typically consists of at least a source code editor, build automation tools, and a debugger. Let's learn how these tools evolved, and the challenges they face to stay up-to-date with the many evolutions in Java and all other programming languages. And what we can still expect in the future!

Guests

• Helen Scott (IntelliJ IDEA, @HelenJoScott)
• Martin Lippert (Eclipse, Spring Tools Lead at VMware, @martinlippert)
• Nick Zhu (Microsoft VSC, @nickzhu9)
• Geertjan Wielenga (Netbeans, @GeertjanW)

Podcast host

• Frank Delporte (@[email protected], @frankdelporte)

Content

• 00'00 Intro and music 
• 00'15 About the topic of this podcast 
• 00'45  Introduction of the guests
  • https://leanpub.com/gettingtoknowIntelliJIDEA 
  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQ9CP785
• 04'14 What is an IDE?
• 07'15 Netbeans as a community project
• 08'20 About the community around Spring and Eclipse
• 11'28 OSGi in Eclipse
• 13'21 How JetBrains build a company around IDEs
•  17'43 About Java within Visual Studio Code and Microsoft
  • https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/
•  20'55 Foojay posts about IDEs
  • https://foojay.io/today/presenting-with-intellij-idea/
  • https://foojay.io/today/resolving-git-merge-conflicts-in-intellij-idea/ 
  • https://foojay.io/today/getting-started-with-deep-learning-in-java-using-deep-netts-part-2/ 
  • https://foojay.io/today/keeping-pace-with-java-using-eclipse-ide/ 
  • https://foojay.io/today/java-on-visual-studio-code-may-update/ 
  • https://foojay.io/today/taking-vscodium-for-a-spin/ 
• 22'21 Spring Tools development for IDEs
• 27'32 IDEs on small platforms
  • https://webtechie.be/books/
• 29'42 CodeWithMe in IntelliJ IDEA
• 31'37 On-line editors
• 33'15 Main benefits of the different IDEs and what is coming in 2023
  • https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-java-pack
  • https://www.jetbrains.com/remote-development/
  • https://github.com/openrewrite/rewrite
•  46'07 Conclusion

A few weeks ago, Ted Neward published a post in which he reviewed the predictions he made one year ago and added a long list of predictions for 2023. In this Foojay Podcast episode, we talk about these predictions, and we even found an analogy between what has happened at Twitter in the last months and the history of Java!

Guests

• Ted Neward (@[email protected], @tedneward)

Podcast host

• Frank Delporte (@[email protected], @frankdelporte)

Content

• 00'00 Intro and music 
• 00'13 About the topic of this podcast 
• 00'28 Introduction of Ted and Frank
  • http://blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2023/2023-tech-predictions.html 
• 01'40 Goal of the predictions
• 03'53 Looking back at the predictions of 2022
• 05'30 "Work-from-home will become normalized as part of the landscape"
• 13'00 "Microservices start to give way back to deliberate monoliths"
  • http://blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2023/you-want-modules-not-microservices.html
• 19'40 "Demand for full-stack developers will continue to leave companies high-and-dry"
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/jo4b6s/recruiters_be_like/
  • Be hungry, humble,  and smart!
•  26'39 "2023 will be the year we try to figure out what to do with all this AI stuff"
  • Devoxx Belgium 2022 AI intro movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Y6VqKVjuM
• 37'49 "Hiring will accelerate at the end of 1Q/2023"
• 46'03 "BOLD TWITTER TAKE: Elon will sell Twitter (perhaps involuntarily) at the end of 2023, to another tech firm (like Microsoft or Oracle)"
  • https://foojay.io/today/foojay-mastodon-service-here-it-is/
  • Comparing to the history of Java when it got bought by Oracle.
• 54'37 "Cloud will begin to shift"
• 1:04'32" Looking for an engineering or devrel manager? Hire Ted!
• 1:05'16" What will be the next "oriented"?
  • Functional versus or combining services programming?
  • Low-code and no-code?
  • https://ballerina.io/?
• 1:13'51" Conclusion

Last month we introduced a new topic in this podcast when we visited the Manchester Java User group. That JUG already exists for nearly 10 years, so they had a lot of history to share. In this episode, we talk to the organizers of the Dubai JUG that started in May of 2022. Let’s learn what the challenges are for a new JUG, how the culture of Dubai and Hawai are alike, possible upcoming conferences, and much more

Guests

• Jad Salhani (@JadSalhani)
• Chris Thalinger (mastodon.social/@christhalinger, @ChrisThalinger)

Podcast host

• Frank Delporte (@[email protected], @frankdelporte)

Content

• 00'00 Intro and music 
• 00'10 About the topic of this podcast 
• 00'35 Introduction of Jad and Frank
• 01'46 About the start of the JUG
• 03'20 About the developer community 
• 04'23 The challenge of finding local speakers and attendees
• 07'40 About the first JUG sessions
• 08'50 The mix of Java experience 
• 10'10 Education, universities, and courses 
• 11'18 Plans for the next JUGs
• 14'40 Support by companies
• 16'48 Side activities
• 18'38 Support of Azul to start the JUG
• 20'09 Chris joins the call, introduction
• 21'04 Comparing Dubai and Hawai and 
• 32'44 Working on VoxxedDays Dubai 
• 35'41 How to get in contact
  • https://twitter.com/dubaijug
  • https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-otgagdwa/
  • https://twitter.com/voxxedDubai
• 36'43 Conclusion

JavaFX was introduced by Sun Microsystems in May 2007 and provides a platform for desktop, mobile, and embedded systems built on Java. Let's talk about the JavaFX framework itself, but also about the libraries and applications that are built with it.

Guests

• Pedro Duque Vieira (@p_duke)
• Sean Phillips (@seanmiphillips)
• Johan Vos (@[email protected], @johanvos)
• Gail Anderson (@gail_asgteach)
• Dirk Lemmermann (@dlemmermann)

Podcast host

• Frank Delporte (@[email protected], @frankdelporte)

Content

• 00'00 Intro and music
• 00'16 About the topic of this podcast
• 00'57 Introduction of guests and host
• 05'30 State of JavaFX/OpenJFX project   
• 09'40 6-month release cycle of JavaFX (= Java)
• 11'52 Comparing JavaFX with Swing
• 14'12 Different Java UI libraries
• 14'52 Blog posts on Foojay
  • https://foojay.io/today/author/gail-anderson/
• 17'34 CAD application by Petro
  • https://foojay.io/today/creating-cad-applications-with-java-and-javafx/
• 18'42 Applications by Dirk
• 19'43 jfx-central.com, a showcase for JavaFX
• 24'46 JavaFX in the browser
  • https://gluonhq.com/developer-preview-for-javafx-inside-a-web-browser/
  • https://github.com/jtulach/bck2brwsr 
  • https://webfx.dev/
  • https://www.jpro.one/
  • https://gluonhq.com/products/cloudlink/
• 27'01 Java is considered to be a server-only language, while no big company is pushing JavaFX
• 30'14 Libraries by Pedro
  • https://www.jfx-central.com/people/p.vieira
  • https://foojay.io/today/new-java-javafx-library-fxskins-released/ 
• 32'52 The many available JavaFX libraries
  • https://www.jfx-central.com/libraries
• 35'34  Mobile development with JavaFX
  • https://start.gluon.io/
  • https://github.com/gluonhq/substrate
• 39'05 JavaFX versus JavaScript frameworks
• 41'12 Introduction Sean
• 42'16 Trinity application
  • https://foojay.io/today/visualizing-brain-computer-interface-data-using-javafx/
• 47'20 Sean thanks guests and community
• 48'50 Pedro and Dirk about their libraries used in applications
  •     https://twitter.com/potus/status/1422282055715594245 
• 51'42 JavaFX developers are working hard on amazing stuff and don't have time to promote their work
• 56'00 Oracle announced they will distribute builds of JavaFX
• 57'19 Next versions of JavaFX
• 59'05 Conclusion 

With this Foojay Podcast, we introduce a new topic: once per month, we will virtually travel to a Java User Group (JUG) to learn how they organize their events and learn from their experiences.

For this first Foojay JUG Podcast, we are flying to Manchester in the UK.

Guests

• Jonathan Bullock (@jonbullock, @[email protected])
• Nick Ebbitt (@nickebbitt)

Podcast host

• Frank Delporte (@frankdelporte, @[email protected])

Content

• 00'00 Short intro and music
• 00'15 Introduction about the topic of this podcast
• 00'24 Introduction of the guests and host
• 00'50 How the Manchester JUG started and Nick and Jonathan joined as organizers
• 03'50 How many JUG sessions are organized
• 04'22 About the Manchester JUG community and how many people join sessions
• 07'30 The most remarkable sessions and speakers (Josh Long and Venkat)
• 09'33 Attracting new speakers 
• 12'40 Pre and Post Covid and virtual sessions
• 15'15 Attracting local speakers
• 16'58 Learn about new technologies and core Java at a JUG or conference
• 22'43 About diversity 
• 25'05 Locations where the JUGs are organized
• 26'44 How much effort is needed to manage a JUG
• 29'50 Where you can find the Manchester JUG
  • https://twitter.com/mcrjava
  • https://www.youtube.com/@ManchesterJavaCommunity
  • https://www.meetup.com/ManchesterUK-Java-Community/
  • https://github.com/orgs/ManchesterJavaCommunity/projects/1 
• 30'20 Other activities (unconference, 10-year anniversary, jmanc)
• 35'46 Practical organization approach
  • https://github.com/orgs/ManchesterJavaCommunity/projects/1 
• 37'55 Cooperation with other JUGs
• 39'28 Conclusion

For this Foojay Podcast, we invited security experts to dive into the fascinating world of secure coding and detecting vulnerabilities in your Java applications. How can you make and keep your systems safe? That's what we want to find out...

Guests

• Steve Poole (Sonatype, @spool167)
• Brian Vermeer (Snyk, @BrianVerm, @[email protected]) 
• Anastasiia Voitova (Cossack Labs, @vixentael, @[email protected])

Podcast host

• Erik Costlow (Azul, @costlow, @[email protected])

Content

• 00'00 Short intro and music
• 00'15 Introduction about the topic of this podcast
• 00'31 Introduction of the guests and host
• 02'40 Foojay article written by Brain about dependencies 
  • https://foojay.io/today/best-practices-for-managing-java-dependencies/ 
• 05'02 XML parsers in Java
• 05'55 "The more the merrier" versus "The less the better"
• 06'30 Foojay article written by Brain about  the role of Data Transfer Objects in security
  • https://foojay.io/today/how-to-use-java-dtos-to-stay-secure/ 
• 09'10 Extending on DTOs: encryption in data provisioning
• 11'10 Database entities versus DTOs and serialization
• 12'25 Developers need to be trained more on security and take responsibility
• 13'50 Don't design your own security solution
  • https://www.cossacklabs.com/blog/cryptographic-failures-in-rf-encryption/
• 16'58 Cryptograpic dad joke... ;-)
• 17'40 What are CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures)
• 20'40 Security in the layers of a Java environment
  • https://imagetragick.com/ 
• 24'50 JAR signing
• 26'40 CWE with the W of Weaknesses and OWASP
  • https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/
  • https://www.exploit-db.com/
• 29'40 How to evaluate vulnerability scores
  • https://foojay.io/today/java-security-log4j-the-securitymanager-and-funding/
• 31'23 CVEs as Pokemon, "You gotta catch them all" workshop
• 32'20 How to be able to fix vulnerabilities
• 33'57 About the recent  critical SSL vulnerability
• 36'02 Libraries are linked (integrated) into a Java project
  • https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/issues/14904
• 38'15 Security is an educational thing and understand your tools
• 39'90 Role of the different players in a team
• 46'32 Can the JVM itself be more secure
• 49'44 Make the JVM aware of vulnerable code 
• 51'10 Security insights in IoT devices
  • https://www.cossacklabs.com/case-studies/iiot-security-a-hive-and-a-queen/
• 1h01'30 Developers should learn about defending depth
• 1h02'10 Conclusion 

In this episode, we want to give you a look behind the curtains of Foojay.io. The very first post on the website dates from April 25th in 2020, and it was by Geertjan Wielenga. Let's look back and what has happened on Foojay during the 2,5 years since that first post, and talk to some of the people behind the project.

Guests:

• Geertjan Wielenga (Azul)
• A N M Bazlur Rahman (Contrast Security)
• Roy Wasse (OpenValue)

Podcast host:

• Frank Delporte (Azul)

0'00 Short intro and music
0'15 Introduction about Foojay.io
0'38 Introduction of the guests and host
1'35 What is Foojay all about?
3'00 About the Foojay content and contributors
5'40 About the Foojay Slack - https://foojay.io/today/join-slack-com-t-foojay-signup/
6'50 How to submit content to Foojay - https://foojay.io/today/how-to-submit-your-next-article-on-foojay-io/
10'40 How writing on Foojay could lead to a new job
13'25 Why OpenValue is contributing to Foojay
15'30 Foojay is a website controlled by the people who contribute to it
16'10 About the advisory board - https://foojay.io/board/  
19'28 The role of the moderator 
21'06 Foojay wants to be a network builder within the Java community
23'00 About the additional functionalities in the Foojay WordPress system
23'40 All the activities related to Foojay, e.g. JConf
24'40 Certification program, an upcoming feature in Foojay
32'25 Other plans for the near future: forum, improved calendar, event information,...
36'00 Going broader, everything related to OpenJVM
36'20 About the Java community
36'55 Foojay wants to keep things simple
38'08 Call to more companies to join the Advisory Board
38'30 Join Foojay to make new friends!

On September 20th, OpenJDK version 19 gets released. In this podcast, we are looking forward to the new features and changes this release brings.

Guests:

• Miroslav Wengner (OpenValue)
• Mary Grygleski (CJUG, DataStax)
• Deepu K Sasidharan (Okta, JHipster)

Podcast host:

• Erik Costlow (Azul)

0'00 Short intro and music
0'15 Introduction about the shift of Java releases to a 6-month release cycle and version 19
0'55 Introduction Speakers and Host
3'30 Review of articles published on Foojay regarding the new JDK 19 features
4'00 What is project Loom and virtual threads? 
4'55 What can we expect in OpenJDK 19?
6'10 Project Amber, pattern matching, switch cases
7'10 Massive throughput with virtual threads
8'45 About preview and incubator features
12'50 Platform versus virtual threads
17'05 Java is becoming much stronger, reducing the need for extra frameworks
18'15 Java versus other languages
21'40 How trading companies can profit from virtual threads
22'50 Project Panama, shared memory use
28'05 About jextract
29'35 About Java versions, LTS, and how they are used
33'35 Record patterns
35'40 Maintainability and developer productivity
37'40 The importance of keeping up with other languages to keep Java "cool" for developers
43'30 About Java modules
45'45 Outro

In this podcast, we explore the topic of why there are so many JDKs, how are they the same, and how they are different. We balance the Java perspective with a special guest from the Rust foundation to learn how a peer ecosystem works.

Quick summary—the role of Java as a central system runtime lead to multiple implementations and the companies that make different distributions offer support and sponsor different work. For example Azul and Microsoft worked on Apple M1, and Bellsoft and Microsoft worked on Alpine Musl. All JREs are compatible through the TCK and vendors work together on security patches for the entire ecosystem.

Guests:

• Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO of Azul Systems, making the Azul Platform, including the Azul Zulu builds of OpenJDK.
• Dmitry Chuyko, Senior Performance Engineer of Bellsoft, making the Liberica builds of OpenJDK.
• Bruno Borges, Product Manager Microsoft, making the Microsoft builds of OpenJDK and Temurin, Adoptium's builds of OpenJDK.
• Ashley Williams, founder and open-source strategist for the Rust Foundation.
• Erik Costlow, Developer Relations for Contrast Security, securing Java and non-Java applications.

Foojay Articles:

Fantastic JVMs and Where to Find Them

Foojay community members discuss the modernization of Jakarta EE applications from the older Java EE form, including backwards-compatibility, as well as forwards-excitement about cool new developments like Microprofile.

Guests:

• Rudy De Busscher, product manager of Payara and EE contributor.
• Josh Juneau, consultant and author of Jakarta EE Recipes.
• Ivar Grimstad, Jakarta EE Advocate for the Eclipse Foundation.
• Erik Costlow, Developer Relations for Contrast Security to secure Java/Jakarta EE applications.

Foojay community members and beyond discuss embedded Java:

• James Gosling, creator of Java and embedded enthusiast. Distinguished engineer of AWS GreenGrass and former Liquid Robotics, an autonomous ocean vehicle powered by water.
• Frank Delporte, engineer with Toadi, an autonomous lawn-mowing robot (no wires) and Pi4J contributor of Raspberry-pi based robots.
• Johan Vos, founder of Gluon, helping make fully cross-platform applications where a single JavaFX codebase runs natively on embedded, iOS, Android, PCs, and browsers.
• Erik Costlow, developer relations for Contrast Security, locating security flaws in backend systems. Developer of home fuel/gas sensors.

Topics:

• Java in Education: Combining Java with Rasperry Pi and the Pi4J Library
• Discussion topics including:
  • How Java was used in the ocean and how it makes complex problems possible.
  • The speed of garbage collectors versus the speed of shark attacks (GC wins).
  • Quick prototypes with Raspberry Pi, scaling through AWS GreenGrass.