Duke’s Corner Podcast with Venkat Subramaniam as he previews his upcoming session at JavaOne in March and offers his perspective on what makes JavaOne special! Go to javaone.com and register and we'll see you there! This is just a short JavaOne preview with Venkat. Later this week we'll release the full podcast where we cover many topics about software development — and more JavaOne too!

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Transcript

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Venkat, Venkat Subramaniam, and welcome to Deuce Corner. Thank you, Jim. It's a great pleasure talking to you. Yeah, it's great to see you. Great to see you again. And looking forward to seeing you in a couple of months at Java 1. Java 1 is in California this year, and it's March 18th through the 20th in Redwood Shores.

0:18

So I saw you on the schedule. What are you going to be talking about?

0:21

I'm super excited for two reasons. One is I'm going to give a talk on Know Your Java, where I really get into the semantics that can be very problematic if we don't really understand really well. So in addition to giving the talk, which is extremely interactive, I am really looking forward to interacting with some amazing developers.

0:45

Java 1 fascinates me for two reasons. Not only do I get to see the core developers of the language, but I'm also going to be able to interact with Java champions, the other luminaries of Java language and practitioners of Java out in the field. So you got this three interesting groups of people merged together,

1:09

the creators of the language, the people who are experts and pushing and promoting the language, and the practitioners who are using the language as well. So you get to learn from three different perspectives, and I'm there to learn. And that's why I'm excited to be at Java 1.

1:27

I'm honestly looking forward to it in the middle of the March.

1:32

Excellent. Excellent. I'll definitely go to your session. I'm the photographer for the event. So I got to shoot your session. So if I'm a developer and I'm in Silicon Valley, why, why should I go to Java one? You've been to many Java ones. What's special about Java one?

1:44

You get to really not only learn about the evolution of Java, but to be able to sit down and ask the questions to people who are the developers buying the language. One of the questions I often have is, why is it this way? Or what are the consequences of using this?

2:03

And again, what are the performance implications, for example? So rather than passively hearing a talk on YouTube or elsewhere, you get to not only learn, but to ask bad questions, to bring your problems, to interact. I've got a set of things I want to talk about to people and I'm going to bring them

2:25

and I hope others bring their questions and and topics they want to discuss as well. So so it's a two way communication that excites me and not just a two way communication with anybody, but two way communication with relevant people who can actually give you sensible things you can actually use. That's why I'm going to be there.

2:44

Excellent. Well, early registration is till February 10th. So that's just right around the corner. And again, the March, March 18th through 20th. I'll see you there. Good forward.

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