About this podcast
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)
Episodes
The newest 20 of 99 episodes
- 180: rightFolds in an AI world? · 57 min · Episode 180Episode 180: rightFolds in an AI world? • rightFolds as a pun on Mark's recent right vocal fold surgery, healing means we're good to record again, plus IA celebrates 17 years of…
- Is this still on? · 1 h 13 min · Episode 179• C++ • Three Cool Things in C++26: Safety, Reflection & std::execution - Herb Sutter - C++ on Sea 2025 • Java • Java 25 to be released September 16 • New Features in Java 25 |…
- 178: Java 22 Released! And I Am The Technical Debt · 1 h 4 min · Episode 178Last 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…
- New Year, Old Year? What Year!?! · 1 h 12 min · Season 1 Episode 177It'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 Java • 9 Outdated Ideas About Java - Azul |…
- 176 - Better Late Than Never? · 1 h 8 min · Episode 176• 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…
- 175: 18 And Life... · 1 h 13 min · Episode 175Episode 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…
- Episode 174: plz.review · 52 min · Episode 174Reddit Post: Improving on the GitHub code review comment experience : programming Blog Post: Bit Complete Blog: Improving on the GitHub code review comment experience | Bit…
- 173: The Red Zone · 54 min · Episode 173Catchups • 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…
- 172: Separating The Release From The Build · 1 h 19 min · Episode 172Once 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…
- 171: Breaking (up) The Build · 1 h 45 min · Episode 171In 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…
- 170: The UI is Broken! · 1 h 21 minIllegal 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…
- Don't Tweet Non Truths · 1 h 54 min• OpenJDK · GitHub • Plans for optimal performance: why CircleCI is changing our pricing model - CircleCI • Standalone Nashorn is coming for Java 15+ • Jbang • Property-based…
- The Greg Cast · 1 h 17 minWelcome to The Greg Cast • The Virtual World Podcast • On The Metal Podcast • JavaZone 2020 • Ron Pressler: Scalable Harmonious Concurrency for the Java Platform • Virtual…
- The Joy of Java · 1 h 5 minAfter a lockdown/reopen period we're back with another argument. WARNING: The recording dropped out half way thru, and… creative edits were made. Your ears have been warned. •…
- Technical Writing · 1 h 7 minWhat's this? Another Illegal Argument episode already? And so close to the last one - it seems the shift to working from home and remote recording has already showed a payoff…
- Illegal Argument - Episode 165 · 1 h 10 minWelcome to the "Locked Down Dependencies" remote recorded using Squadcast.fm whilst both Greg and I are stuck in a national COVID-19 lockdown. Full links to topics discussed can…
- Episode 164 - Moments before Isolation · 60 minWelcome to the first episode of 2020 - recorded just before all of Coronavirus Mania and then promptly the editing and publishing got unfortunately thrown to the sidelines for a…
- 163: The Continuation · 47 minTopics • Fibre's are dead - long live "Virtual Threads" • Undelimited continuations are not functions • R2DBC 0.8.0 goes GA - Reactive database clients for Java • RUST: Shipping…
- 162. A Conservative JDK/Java Migration Path · 39 min · Episode 162• CppCon 2018: Thoughts on a more powerful and simpler C++ (5 of N) - Herb Sutter • Resources for writing modern Java • Java 8 adoption process • Conservative migration • Build…
- Illegal Argument: Episode 161 · 1 h 5 min00:00:00: Intro 00:01:25: Java 12 Is Upon Us • 39 New Features (and APIs) in JDK 12 • Mapping With Switch Expressions 00:12:31: Supporting Multiple JVM Versions In Libraries •…







