Duke's Corner Podcast

Here's a Duke's Corner Podcast preview of JCON 2024 with Java Champion and Oracle ACE Pro Richard Fichtner. Oracle will be there via Java, GraalVM, and Oracle Database. It'll be a great event!

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Great conversation at Duke's Corner with Mohammed Aboullaite from Sweden. Mohammed first fell in love with Java in school and he's been contributing to the community ever since. Listen right here or on your favorite podcast app!

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Duke’s Corner Podcast with Marit van Dijk, a Java Champion and Developer Advocate at JetBrains based in The Netherlands. The conversation covers all things Java — the growing community, the latest features to enable developer productivity, contributing to Open Source, advice for students, and Marit's unique background in Social Science Informatics that combines computer science and social science.

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Duke’s Corner Podcast with Jonathan Vila, a Java engineer and Java Champion based in Barcelona, Spain. The conversation covers Jonathan's long career in software development, his love/hate relationship with various languages, his passion for Java, the benefits of contributing to Open Source, and why he loves the Java community. After Jonathan's first experience with the local Java User Group in Barcelona, Jonathan said that everything changed in his professional life completely. He was a coder who loved technology before Java, but after experiencing Java and the Java community he developed an entirely new appreciation for community and moved his career to a new level. His story is an inspiration for everyone!

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Duke’s Corner Podcast with Dervis Mansuroglu, a Java engineer and Java Champion based in Oslo, Norway. The conversation covers coding for massively scalable systems, managing engineering teams, running the JavaBin User Group and the JavaZone conference, building the House of Technology, and listening to Pink Floyd while writing your thesis. Dervis is passionate about Java technology and building the Java community. Oh, and try the Pink Floyd bit. It works!

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PS: In the conversation above Dervis mentions the 2019 Duke's Choice Award. Here are some images I shot from that moment when he won!

Duke’s Corner Podcast with Mary Grygleski, a Java developer and Java Champion in Chicago. The conversation covers Java's longevity, building the Java community, running the Chicago Java User Group, and the constant need to keep learning. Mary embraces the concept of always becoming a beginner whenever there is a need to learn something new. During the interview Mary and Jim also discovered a common background they have with Sun and Solaris!

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Here’s a meditation exercise I do to help improve my awareness and memory. It has both short term and long term goals. It’s easy to describe but it’s hard to do and it’s impossible to sustain!

The images in the video are of Osaka, Japan. I shot them in April 2020. The audio was recorded in mid 2021. Original blog post here.

Duke's Corner Podcast with Jeanne Boyarsky, a Java developer and Java Champion based in New York City. The conversation covers the evolution of Java, some of the core features of the language and platform, contributing to the Open Source community, and how developers learn and keep up with the technology. Jeanne knew she wanted to do something with computers when she first visited the computer museum  — at age five! Check out her story right here. She'll inspire you to focus and learn what you love.

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Last weekend I went up to Tokyo to do a session at the Tokyo Linux User Group (TLUG), and along the way I met up with my friend Matthew “Karamoon” Dons for a conversation in Yokohama. Matthew has been fighting cancer for over seven years now, and he provides a comprehensive update here in this discussion. He’s got an amazing story because he was given just months to live at the time of diagnosis! Check him out and follow his story at his website, YouTube, and Facebook.

We also talked about learning, doctors, nurses, hacker communities, the state of technology, AI, and other such interesting issues. Matthew and I used to meet and talk about these things all the time over some coffee and tea. We don’t live near each other these days so we’ll hopefully continue our conversations here via this podcast.

Video also on YouTube

Here’s a fun story of when I met Linus Torvalds back in 2018. I told him about my experiences at Sun and OpenSolaris and also the time I spammed the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML).

I still have bitter/sweet feelings about Sun and OpenSolaris. It's a shame how it all ended for me. I went from working on the hottest project at Sun at the time and being Sun's #1 blogger (see: BSC front page) to losing those platforms overnight. That wrecked my career and forced me to reset — yet again. I have a lot of experience with train wrecks.

More here: Spamming the Linux Kernel Mailing List