Initially tonight's episode was going to be called "The Patch Is All" (guess whose been enjoying the new season of Killjoys?) — with a discussion about pre code-review practises, however with Peter's absence, the discussion centred mostly around the 2017 Java Language Summit which was taking place around the recording period.

• DevOpsDays Auckland - 3/4th October
• Pacific C++ - 26/27th October in Christchurch, NZ

• Java 8u144 Released - release notes - download
• New Java Style Guideline for OpenJDK ( draft 6 ) - not everyone seems to like it.
  • Not embracing 2 space indents maketh me sad :(
  • Interesting to see how much conflicts with Googles standard, whose structural wrapping rules, whilst clearly delineating structural elements, can be a bit unsightly )
• Java Language Summit 2017
  • Agenda - lots on value types, surprisingly little on modularity
  • Videos already going live
  • Project Sulong - After watching the JLS video - colour me (Mark) highly impressed.
• Nobody puts Java in the container - Ken Sipe Video, JavaZone
• Introduction to Java multitenancy - Learn about a new feature for cloud systems in the IBM SDK Java Technology Edition, Version 7 Release 1
• Ceylon on Java 9 + Jigsaw
• Clojure Dependency Heaven(pdf) - introducing tools.deps.alpha
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• JEP 307: Parallel Full GC for G1
• How Compatibility Breeds Complexity - The module system gone awry
• Java Style Guidelines - Draft v6
• Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs
• The best Java books as voted by Reddit r/java ( reddit thread here )

• Do people write insane code with multiple overlapping side effects with a straight face?
• Some History of Functional Programming Languages - David Turner (Lambda Days 2017) (youtube video)
  • Miranda language
• IntelliJ Rust Plugin now officially supported by Jetbrains
  • Autocomplete for macros
  • Minimum version is 2017.1
• Rust: The server trick - The semver trick refers to publishing a breaking change to a Rust library without requiring a coordinated upgrade across its downstream dependency graph. The trick is built around having one version of your library declare a dependency on a newer version of the same library ( reddit thread )

• Google Group Mailing List
• Google+ Page
• Facebook Group
• Twitter

• Project Valhalla
  • Value Types give up value identity
  • JEP 169: Value Object specification
  • JEP 218: Generics over Primitive Types
  • Value Types in the JVM - Scaladays 2015 talk ( Youtube, 48 minutes )
• Whats in JDK9?
• Is SpringBoot/Grails good for Prototyping only?
• startups: fire your dev teams
• A Stronger Dart for everyone…
• Takari Maven-Wrapper
• Dr Deprecator - Interview with Stuart Marks
• New Java 9 tool: jdeprscan
• Batman WAT
• Java BigInteger was made for RSA cryptography
• Rust's std::option type
• DZone Series on Java command line parsing:Apache Commons CLI, args4j, jbock, Commandline, JewelCli
• New Rustacean Podcast
• Life in the Fastlane: Disable D's GC

Join us for an another semi informed, highly subjective, and quite possibly wrong on all counts discussion about Java, Jigsaw.

• Revised Jigsaw Spec - reflective access allowed by default, I'm calling it Project Glass Tile - everything is transparent and smoothly fitting together again ( if not using Modules ) - cough - yeh right says the Tui advert.
• CDI 2.0 Released
• JDK ServiceLoader - Creating Extensible Applications
• Getting Started with Jigsaw Services
• Is OSGi broken?
• Split Package Hell?
  • Unable to share non-exported packages, including "resources"
• Set theory?
  • Totally Ordered Set
• Java String hashCode has an unknown author
• The Uncomfortable Truth of Bad Code ( YouTube link )
• The Smell of Rotting Software
• Sonar Gerrit Plugin
• Sputnik Checker for Github/Gerrit
• Whose job is it to fix that bad code?

Catch us on Twitter and Google Plus+.

Apoligies one and all for the late episode delivery, our host/engineer/pulisher ( aka me, Mark ) was off galavanting taking photos of Living Colour, Greenday, and Devin Townsend this week and got waylaid in editing/publishing the show! But fret not dear listeners, come one, come all - and hear all about the NO vote...

• Mark Reinhold (Oracle) responds to Red Hat's "critical missing pieces..." post re: JPMS/Jigsaw
• Reinhold Publishes Open Letter to JCP Pleading That JPMS (Jigsaw) Is Approved
• The State of the Vote on JSR 376 (on May 5th)
• Apache Maven and Java 9- State of the Mojo
• Java EE8 at JavaOne

• Guest - Emanuele Ziglioli from Sirtrack on upgrading a legacy swing app to Java 8 / DukeScript
• Netbeans Swing GUI Builder ( formally Project Matisse )
• Totally Grid Bag(YouTube Video)
• JavaFX Self-Contained Application Packaging
• Inno Setup for Windows
• JEP 282: jlink: The Java Linker
• Iridium NEXT
• Electron considered harmful
• Electron is flash for the Desktop
• Reasoning about performance (in the context of search) 30 Min YouTube Video
• Is Java 8 Stream a safe return type?
• Oracle Proposes G1 as the Default Garbage Collector for Java 9
• What is Effectively Final variable of Java 8
• Sodium - Function Reactive Programming
• Java 9/10
  • Reactive Programming with JDK 9 Flow API
  • Pattern Matching for Java
  • Welcome to Amber!
  • Java Language and Platform Futures: A Sneak Peek by Brian Goetz (youtube).
  • 55 New Features in JDK 9
  • Inside Java 9 – Version Schema, Multi-Release JARs, and More

• Java 9 and The Case of the Automatic Module
• Haskell and The Case of the Sad State of Tutorials
  • Functional Education
• KITTENS - DATATYPE-GENERIC FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING WITH SCALA(YouTube Video)
• How to Bake Pi
• Scala Macros Roadmap
  • scala.meta is the new macro system.
  • Metaprogramming 2.0 by Eugene Burmako - youtube / slides
  • scala.meta support in IntelliJ
  • c++ style templates with templates.scala (uses scala.meta ) - github
• Build!
  • Java Dependency Analysis Tool
  • Maven JDeps Plugin
  • The State of the Module System
  • New Java Versioning Scheme
  • Alex Blewitt's Fantasy Version Scheme Series
    • JSR294 Fantasy Version Series - Roman Numerals
    • JSR294 Fantasy Version Series - Linux
    • JSR294 Fantasy Version Series - Planets
• Payara MicroProfile 1.0 Released
• Unik Unikernels for Java
• MirageOS Unikernel
• HalVM Unikernel
• SE-Radio Episode 282: Donny Nadolny on Debugging Distributed Systems
• HOW WOULD A PANDA PROGRAM COMPUTERS? - youtube
• TempleOS
• CFV: Project Portola - Alpine Linux ( in particular the musl C library ) Java Port

• Slack sucks, and Greg can rewrite it in a day.
• Self hosted slack?
• Hipchat from Atlasssian
• Matter Most
• Electron based Apps - scourge of memory
• ASCIIDOCTOR is based on Ruby, and in my project which uses it I get weird JRuby/Gems problems - ONLY under jenkins on linux.
• Pupper + Ruby + Gems / Chef ^ Clojure = Devops.
• Feedback from last show:
  • Just use Docker for rebuilding images ( thats for the image, not the source IN the image tho )
  • Programmable builds done right with Kobalt from Cedric Beust.
• Last Week Tonight: Journalism(youtube)
• If programming if math - we all fail.
• JVM Language Summit 2016 Videos
  • Jigsaw - it'll be a pain
    • ResultSet is actually in JavaSE, not EE, and is only an interface.
    • Jigsaw moves this to the java.sql module.
  • OSGi Split Packages - a nitemare
  • Value Types - worthwhile?
  • Maps turning null for both absent/empty value, but return Optional
• Jenkins Hate?
• Greg dislikes Jira - like really dislikes Jira.
• Silicon Valley - Scrum(youtube)
• Cube Drone - Scrum (youtube)

• The 12 Factor App
• NixOS and NixOps
• HuntBugs
• Tabs slower than Spaces in Firefox
• max combined bytecode size for Hotspot to consider inlining: 325 bytes. IntelliJ-generated assertion for one @NotNull parameter: 48 bytes.
• Gradle hate ( not Maven this time! )
  • gradle-script-kotlin
  • Kotlin Meets Gradle

• Building Go From Make - bad puns and jokes, Gentoo/Debian packaging
• Maven - the best of the bunch of bad things.
• Separating build from dependency management.
• Releases as tagged source code - binaries are just 'artefacts of the build'
• Gophers, please tag your releases- via reddit.
• Clojure.spec
• Single return points in functions, single return values?
• try/catch/finally/return puzzler
• java(c) shims?
• Project Valhalla - algebraic data types thread, Algebraic Types on The JVM
• OCaml - pattern matching totally check is a warning
• API Design
  • Are you designing for the implementer, the consumer, the documentation, or….
  • XML Schema for the win.
• application/hal+xml IETF spec.
• HalBuilder Test Resource Repository
• Reading RSS Feeds using F# Type Providers

• Languages with alternate base numbering systems?
• My URL isn't your URL
• We explain ourselves better - or do we?
• Swiftkey Clarity keyboard written in Clojure
• Rust / Kotlin
  • IntelliJ Rust IDE- Gitter.im chat
  • Rust Racer
  • Functional Programming with Kotlin

• Netflix Ribbon
• Kotlin
  • funKTionale
• Java
  • Javaslang
• Clojure
  • Specter

• Building Scalable Stateful Services