Duke's Corner Podcast

Duke's Corner Podcast with Cesar Hernandez, a Java Champion, a teacher, and long time contributor to multiple Open Source projects from Guatemala. The conversation ranged from how Cesar blew up his dad's computer to start his computer science career, teaching Java to university students, the benefits of Java technology, and participating at Java User Groups and conferences. And most importantly, Cesar talked about his passion for sharing everything he knows with the community.

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Duke’s Corner Podcast with Hanno Embregts, a Java Champion and an Oracle ACE Pro from The Netherlands who loves contributing to the Java community and presenting technical and musical sessions at developer conferences. Hanno is especially passionate about making the world a better place thorough software. In fact, he's been driven by that idea for as long as he can remember! He goes into detail about how the Java community is so innovative, why Java is so technically advanced, and how both can be leveraged to help us all live in a more environmentally sustainable way.

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Duke’s Corner Podcast conversation with author and Java Champion Cay Horstmann at JavaZone Oslo 2024. The conversation covered Java for small tasks, teaching Java to thousands of students for decades, and the thriving Java conferences around the world. 

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Conversation with Dervis Mansuroglu and Marek Machnik last week from JavaZone 2024 in Oslo. Dervis and Marek are two of the organizers from the Norwegian Java User Group who helped lead this year’s JavaZone event. The discussion covered the speakers, the venue, the volunteers, the content, and the community that participated at the conference. Summarizing the overall event, Dervis said, “Whatever you can dream of, it’s possible. Nothing is impossible.” That sentiment was shared by many of the thousands of developers who contributed to make JavaZone an innovative and unique experience.

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The world has changed — everything is fast. You’re busy updating your technical skills and leveraging the latest tools, but are you using the most efficient learning techniques to improve yourself? Are you building your own network in a systematic way by contributing to FOSS communities? There are massive benefits to contributing to Open Source projects, especially Java as one of the largest and most innovative software development communities in the world. But remember that although communities are fun and valuable they can also be fragile and change radically. They need continual nurturing so they can support opportunities for contributors.

In this session, we’ll explore the skills necessary to learn new things deeply, offer contributions of value to communities, and build our own networks to leverage markets. The result is that we benefit, the community benefits, and our employers benefit. These three levels represent critical reciprocal relationships that need careful consideration. We'll touch on concepts from network science, neuroscience, education, and history to help promote innovation and learning.

We’ll also cover the who, what, where, when, why, and how of contributing to FOSS communities, highlighting Java specifically and the Japan Java User Group. And finally, I’ll share some career success stories of my own and also some of my catastrophic failures. I've photographed thousands of developers and interviewed hundreds of them for videos, streams, and podcasts, so we surely have many images to show and lessons to learn as we become inspired to thrive in this crazy fast world.

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Here's my "Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How" of contributing to the Java Community while profiling some of the contributors from the Japan Java User Group (JJUG).

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Duke’s Corner Podcast with Elias Nogueira, a Java Champion and an Oracle ACE Pro from The Netherlands who loves the Java community and sharing everything he's learned. The conversation ranges from Elias’s early experience learning Java and many other programming languages, his desire to improve his career opportunities, moving from Brazil to The Netherlands, learning a new language, and contributing to Java user groups around the world. There are so many beautiful things about the Java community, he says. Yep, we agree.

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Duke’s Corner Podcast with Simon Martinelli, a Java Champion and an Oracle ACE Pro from Switzerland who loves running trains, contributing to FOSS projects, and teaching students about Java.

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Duke’s Corner Podcast with Praveen Mohan, Director of Java Quality and Infrastructure at the Oracle India Development Center in Bangalore, which is part of the Java Platform Group. The conversation covers the technical details of the quality engineering operation in Bangalore where 40 developers ensure that Java is tested to the highest standards possible before release. Also discussed is how much the team engages the Bangalore Java User Group to build close development relationships with the community.

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Duke’s Corner Podcast with Bert Jan Schrijver from The Netherlands. Bert is a Java Champion, a leader of the Dutch Java User Group, and the CTO and co-founder of OpenValue that he started in 2017.

The conversation spans all of Bert's experiences as a software developer, including hacking and gaming as a six-year old, contributing to the computer lab fire in school, blowing out the family's phone bill with his first modem, getting an advanced CS education at university, engaging the Java community globally, and building his own software company.

Bert also offers some interesting advice for how people can continue learning and growing and contributing to the community at Java events. He also details why Java is special and why developers embrace the technology: "Java is one of the only languages I know of that has been active and current for so long. And one of the keys is the marvel of engineering in the Java Virtual Machine."

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