Conference 44
Conference posts cover talks, trip reports, and resources from Java events including Devoxx, JavaOne, jChampions, J-Spring, and JUG sessions across Europe and online. This includes slides, demos, and links from Frank Delporte’s own presentations as well as highlights from sessions he attended.

Links from the JCON talk 'Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API on Raspberry Pi'
These are the links from the JCON talk in Cologne, Germany, on April 22, 2026: “The Wait is Over: Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API brings modern Java to the Raspberry …

Foojay Podcast #93: Update Your JDK, Read More Code, and Talk to Your Users: Interviews From VoxxedDays Amsterdam
A hallway at a Java conference often teaches you more than the talks. People share what broke in production, which JDK version finally pushed them off Java 8, and what tools …

Links from the jChampions Conference talk 'Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API on Raspberry Pi'
These are the links from the jChampions Conference online talk, on January 27, 2026: “The Wait is Over: Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API brings modern Java to the …

The FFM API: How OpenJDK Changed the Game for Native Interactions (And Made Pi4J Better!)
This is a crosspost from the article I contributed to this year’s JVM Advent . The Pi4J project is a Java library that allows you to control the GPIO pins and electronic …

Foojay Podcast #88: From Code to Stage: Organizing Conferences and Finding Your Voice as a Speaker
What turns a nervous first-timer into a confident conference speaker? Plenty of developers have a story worth sharing, but the path from idea to stage feels foggy. In this …

Links from the YavaConf talk 'Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API on Raspberry Pi'
These are the links from the Ya!vaConf virtual talk on December 4, 2025: “Java Champion Talk - How the new Foreign Function & Memory API pushes Java on Raspberry Pi to …

Links from the JFall talk 'Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API on Raspberry Pi'
These are the links from the JFall talk in Ede, The Netherlands, on November 6, 2025: “The Wait is Over: Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API brings modern Java to the …

Foojay Podcast #80: AI4Devs Interviews – Part 2
The first AI4Devs conference in Amsterdam brought together developers, data scientists, conference organizers, and even a student to share how AI shifts their daily work. We …

Links from the Devoxx talk 'Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API on Raspberry Pi'
These are the links from the Devoxx talk in Antwerp, Belgium, on October 9, 2025: “The Wait is Over: Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API brings modern Java to the …

Foojay Podcast #79: AI4Devs Interviews – Part 1
AI changes how we write and ship code every week, and the questions pile up faster than the answers. At the first AI4Devs conference in Amsterdam on September 19th, 2025, I grabbed …

Foojay Podcast #77: DevBcn Report, Part 2 - Spanish Knowledge Sharing
Conferences sound different when you hear them in the language of the people who built them. For DevBcn in Barcelona, that language is Spanish, and this short episode hands the mic …

Foojay Podcast #76: DevBcn Report, Part 1 – Learn from the Community
What does the Java community sound like when you put a microphone in front of it at a Barcelona conference? In early July, DevBcn brought together speakers and visitors from across …

Foojay Podcast #75: JCON Report, Part 4 - Tips and Tricks for Java Devs
Every Java conference leaves you with a notebook full of small tricks you want to try on Monday morning. This episode collects exactly that kind of advice from a packed lineup of …

Foojay Podcast #74: JCON Report, Part 3 - AI, ChatGPT, LLM, ML, RAG, MCP, GenAI, and more
AI talk often stays abstract, but Java developers want to know which frameworks, protocols, and patterns actually hold up in real projects. At JCON in May, we cornered speakers …

Foojay Podcast #73: JCON Report, Part 2 – Evolutions in the Java Language and Runtime
Java keeps moving, and every new release shifts how we write code and run applications. At JCON 2025 in May we sat down with seven speakers to hear how they see the language and …

Foojay Podcast #72: JCON Report, Part 1 - Grow your career, public speaking, 30 years of Java, greener coding,…
Walking the floor at JCON in Köln, we grabbed people between talks and asked the questions that matter to working Java developers. How do you grow a career, get on stage, write …

Foojay Podcast #69: All Things Java at VoxxedDays Amsterdam
A conference floor at VoxxedDays Amsterdam holds dozens of small conversations that rarely make it to a recording. This episode breaks that pattern by stitching many of those …

Foojay Podcast #64: Interviews at JFall about open source, OpenJDK evolutions, Project Loom, JVM, and more!
A conference hallway tells you more about the state of Java than any keynote. We grabbed a microphone at JFall and asked developers what they care about right now, from Project …
TVH IT Talk, links of the talk Following the evolutions in Java with a look into the OpenJDK project
These are the links of the presentation “Following the evolutions in Java with a look into the OpenJDK project” of Thursday December 5th at the TVH IT Talks 2024 in …
JFall NL, links of the talk Looking at Music, an experiment with Kotlin, JavaFX, MIDI, and Virtual Threads
These are the links of the presentation “Looking at Music, an experiment with Kotlin, JavaFX, MIDI, and Virtual Threads” of Thursday November 7th, 16:55-17:45, Room 2.