Duke's Corner Podcast

Here are some memories from meeting Atul Chitnis in December 2007. I shot the image of him here at the conference party at his home after the event. He was the first conference organizer who let me do a full session at a genuine Open Source conference. It was a huge opportunity for me. I was scared. He took me aside and calmed me down. I’ll never forget. He passed in 2013 but he still influences me today, especially when I think about how one person can change your path by simply offering an opportunity.

If your podcast app doesn’t display the image of Atul, you can see it here: https://jimgrisanzio.substack.com/p/opportunity

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Duke’s Corner Podcast with Sharat Chander, Sr. Director, Java Product Management & Community Engagement at Oracle. The conversation explores Shar's summary of his experiences with the Java community in 2023 that he published on Inside Java.

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Duke’s Corner Podcast with Stéphane Nicoll, a software engineer based in Belgium working on the Spring team. Stéphane talks about his experience becoming a Java developer, his observations seeing Java evolve and improve, and the importance of contributing to Java and Open Source generally. He's keen on building community by directly engaging engineers at events as well as mentoring contributors through the development process for issue reports and code changes. He said that "building our community is super important for us" as he outlined the process that he and his team uses to welcome new developers. That says it all.

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Duke’s Corner Podcast with Sam Brannen, a Java engineer from Switzerland who loves math and puzzles and solving complex problems in code. He's passionate about his craft and he loves diving deep into the details. He works on the Spring Framework and JUnit 5.

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Duke’s Corner Podcast with Josiah Davisson, a teacher from A-TECH (Advanced Technologies Academy) in Las Vegas, Nevada, about his experiences teaching Java to high school students. Josiah is passionate about learning technology himself and also teaching Java to his students so they are fully empowered to enter the software industry directly or go on to seek further computer science education in college. Contact Josiah at [email protected].

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Duke’s Corner Podcast with Sirisha Pratha, a Java developer from the Pittsburgh Java User Group, about software development, the benefits of using Java, the dynamics of the Java community, and contributing to Open Source projects.

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Duke’s Corner Podcast with Francisco Isidro from the Federal University of ABC in Sao Paulo, Brazil about teaching Java to computer science students.

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Duke's Corner Podcast with Rafael Winterhalter about his experiences moving from economics to software development and the benefits of using Java technology. The conversation also covers advice for students and value of interacting with the Java community. Rafael is a software consultant in Oslo, Norway, he's a Java Champion, and he's a Duke's Award winner.

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Duke’s Corner Podcast with Holly Cummins about her passion for being "in the engine room of Java" in that she's trying to build tools and frameworks to reduce complexity for developers and increasing their productivity. The conversation also touches on the Java community, Open Source, and various software development practices. Holly is a Sr. Principle Software Engineer at Red Hat in the UK.

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