The Basement Coders Developer Podcast

Prashant Deva is not some hipster "brogrammer". No, he's about as hard-core geek, John Carmack-level coder. He's the fellow that brought us ANTLR Studio, to give you some bearing on his skills. While preparing for this podcast I 1) realized he never sleeps 2) he's very enthusiastic about Chronon.

In this interview Prashant takes us through Chronon which he describes as a 'DVR for debuggers'. That's right, you can actually step through a program that has already run! An invaluable tool for tracking down those nasty production bugs. The product is amazing, it's not a simple gimmick and I believe it will become the de-facto standard for JVM-based production servers.

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Jeff sporting his "Java - Just Free It" digs

Do you know what the Free Java movement is? It's not exactly cut-and-dry. Essentially it's a movement which wants more community rather than autocratic involvement in the direction of Java. It seems that Oracle is shaping the JCP with less focus on individuals and seemingly more focus on "Friends of Oracle" (or Friends of Larry, if there's even a distinction).

All of this and the fact that Apple, without warning (or provocation that we know of) decided to deprecate Java on Mac OSX. The more disturbing part is Oracle's complete "head in the sand" non-reaction to this news.  Essentially, we don't know what the future of Java is on Mac OSX, especially in light of how lawsuit happy Oracle has been these days.

Even more interesting than the article itself are the comments made by an Oracle employee (and the criticisms which follow) on InfoQ's "Can Oracle turn around Java?".

So, it is interesting times we live in.  Would love to be a fly on the wall in Oracle to find out exactly what their plans are amidst all the community pressure.

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The interview with Oracle's Justin Kestelyn & Henrik Stahl, although pretty decent in audio quality, had more than a few requests for a transcription. So Craig Tataryn (that's me!) hammered out a transcript for all to see (and pick a part).

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Edit: The transcript can be found here

Once again we present another special Basement Coders podcast Live from Oracle's JavaOne conference in San Francisco.

We sit down with Oracle's Justin Kestelyn head of Oracle's OTN network and Henrik Stahl, product and strategy lead for Java Platform technologies to talk about the challenges they faced integrating the Oracle and Java communities and Oracle's commitment and goals for Java and the Open Source community

We think this makes for a nice contrast with our previous talk with James Gosling. If Justin, Henrik and Oracle can deliver on what is said in this cast, then Java is in good hands. It was great that both Henrik and Justin could take time out of their busy schedules, I mean quite literally JavaOne for them is an absolute roller coaster ride, so we appreciate very much the opportunity to talk with them.

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Note: As with our previous cast, this one was taped guerrila-style from the Mason St. Tent. For the most part it's ok, but from 11:36-15:18 minutes, you'll hear the Google lady get on her microphone to prod geeks into playing with Lego. Someone should have told her: you don't need a microphone to get geeks to play with Lego! Wait out the background noise and things go back to normal.

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The James Gosling Interview was pretty tough to hear at points, what with all the background noise. Here is a transcript of the conversation so you can clear up some noisier parts of the cast. Special thanks to Kathleen Kriz and Cameron McKenzie for doing this!

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