Illegal Argument

Mar 24 2024 99 ep. 72 mins 1.6k
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Greg, Mark and Richard get together weekly and talk about things of interest in the Java community. Greg works for SimWorks (http://www.simworks.com) who specialize in mobile phone software. Mark works for SecureMX (www.smx.co.nz). Richard works for Blue Train Software (http://www.bluetrainsoftware.com)

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178: Java 22 Released! And I Am The Technical Debt

Mar 24 2024 64 mins  
Last week, Greg and I had the pleasure of sitting down with Andres Almiray from Oracle to discuss this week's release of Java 22. I was hoping to get this episode out sooner but ended up fighting it out with a fever. Alert Notification https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/java-on-macos-14-4 Java 22 Released Tomorrow JDK 22 Release Notes: https://jdk.java.net/22/release-notes Java

New Year, Old Year? What Year!?!

Dec 29 2023 72 mins  
It's been a long time (again) between recording/discussions, but finally, for the end of the year, we locked some time to record. Java 9 Outdated Ideas About Java - Azul | Better Java Performance, Superior Java Support Hidden gems in Java 19, Part 1: The not-so-hidden JEPs JDK 20: The new features in Java 20 | InfoWorld JDK 21: The new features in Java 21 | InfoWorld Java 21 t

176 - Better Late Than Never?

Sep 04 2023 68 mins  
Non-tech Music Banter An Updated Look At Concert Merchandise Sales & Trends in 2022 Why Venues Take Merch Cuts The Taylor Swift Economy: The largest music tour in history is a hospitality phenomenon A litany of languages and their passing, software archaeology and the issues of adopting new languages? Clojure - (next Rich) JDK 21 to be released next month: JDK 21 Release C

175: 18 And Life...

Aug 21 2022 73 mins  
Episode 175 - 18 And Life Until last week, I was going to open the show saying it's been a long time since we last recorded, but we slipped in an interview with the guys from plz.review - so that's not exactly true anymore. It has, however, still been a while since we've had a normal, full session of discussion and argument. Delayed: The publishing/editing of this episode was unfo

Episode 174: plz.review

Jul 19 2022 51 mins  
Reddit Post: Improving on the GitHub code review comment experience : programming Blog Post: Bit Complete Blog: Improving on the GitHub code review comment experience | Bit Complete Inc. YouTube Introduction Video: Introduction to plz.review - YouTube Website: plz.review Guests: Dylan Trotter, Matt Schweitz It's been a while since recording, and as it happens, just before organi

173: The Red Zone

Feb 16 2022 54 mins  
Catchups Happy New Year! Log4j Issues, fall out, ranty commentary And now PostgreSQL JDBC gets a 9.8 CVE: Java Stuff Java 18 set for March 22, 2022 The new features in Java 18 Mark Reinhold: There are no unresolved P1 bugs in build 36, so that is the first JDK 18 Release Candidate. Binaries available here, as usual: https://jdk.java.net/18/ Java 19 builds are already availab

172: Separating The Release From The Build

Nov 14 2021 79 mins  
Once again it's been a long time coming between episodes, Auckland's recent extended Covid lock down and Mark's unscheduled and temporary relocation meant we missed out on discussion the release of Java 17 - and with Java 18 not all that far away, we thought it was about time to once again get our record on. Andres Almiray once again joins us to talk releases, and specifically the

171: Breaking (up) The Build

Mar 19 2021 105 mins  
In an unprecedented show of activity - merely two weeks after the new years first episode (170) Mark and Greg are back, this time joined by Andres Almiray (Oracle) and Stephen Connolly (Cloudbees) to discuss all things build, modules, this weeks Java 16 release, and why Java programmers should take a look at the rust programming language. Hosts Mark Derricutt - @talios Greg Amer

170: The UI is Broken!

Mar 07 2021 81 mins  
Illegal Argument Episode 170 Mark and Greg emerge from their 2020/2021 Christmas/New Year breaks, and temporary Level 3 lock down to break their silence, attempt to remember how to podcast, and further the rumor that we only record an episode on the eve of a new Java release. Table of Contents 0:44 Holiday Periods 1:27 Java 16 Release 2:35 Standalone Nashorn 3:18 Native Script 6:2

Don't Tweet Non Truths

Nov 30 2020 114 mins  
OpenJDK · GitHub Plans for optimal performance: why CircleCI is changing our pricing model - CircleCI Standalone Nashorn is coming for Java 15+ Jbang Property-based Testing in Java: Jqwik - a JUnit 5 Test Engine - My Not So Private Tech Life ABNF for TLDS tldlabel = ALPHA *61(ldh) ld ldh = ld / "-" ld = ALPHA / DIGIT ALPHA = %x41-5A / %x61-7A ; A-Z / a-z DIGIT = %x3