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Links from the JCON talk 'Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API on Raspberry Pi'

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 Pi ”.

Foojay Podcast #93: Update Your JDK, Read More Code, and Talk to Your Users: Interviews From VoxxedDays Amsterdam

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 changed their workflow last month. At VoxxedDays Amsterdam we grabbed fifteen of those conversations on tape with Ko Turk, Johannes Bechberger, Lutske de Leeuw, Aicha Laafia, Marit van Dijk, Adele Carpenter, Patrick Baumgartner, Sohan Maheshwar, Jeroen Egelmeers, Erwin Manders, Alexander Shopov, Maarten Verburg, Arjan Tijms, Joost Kaan, and Stephan Janssen for Foojay Podcast #93.

Links from the jChampions Conference talk 'Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API on Raspberry Pi'

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 Raspberry Pi ”.

The FFM API: How OpenJDK Changed the Game for Native Interactions (And Made Pi4J Better!)

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 components connected to a Raspberry Pi with pure Java code. It removes the complexity of using native libraries and the Java Native Interface (JNI) , allowing you to focus on your application logic.

Foojay Podcast #88: From Code to Stage: Organizing Conferences and Finding Your Voice as a Speaker

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 conversation we hear from organizers, coaches, and speakers at every stage of that path. We talk with Stephan Janssen, Martin Smelt, Brian Vermeer, Annelore Egger, Daniël Floor, Berwout de Vries Robles, and Susanne Pieterse in Foojay Podcast #88.

Links from the YavaConf talk 'Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API on Raspberry Pi'

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 the next level ”.

Links from the JFall talk 'Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API on Raspberry Pi'

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 Raspberry Pi ”.

Foojay Podcast #80: AI4Devs Interviews – Part 2

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 grabbed a microphone between sessions and asked each of them what stood out. I host this second batch of short interviews as Foojay Podcast #80, with Eileen Kapel, Jonathan Ellis and Ryan Svihla from Brokk, David Parry from Qodo, Alessandro Stefouli-Vozza, Sushant Shekhar, Arno Koehler, Joost Kaan, Coen de Waal, Samantha Burattini, Luis San Martin, Nahir Vila, and conference organizer Jonathan Vila.

Links from the Devoxx talk 'Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API on Raspberry Pi'

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 Raspberry Pi ”.

Foojay Podcast #79: AI4Devs Interviews – Part 1

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 my camera and microphone to talk with speakers and attendees about what actually works. In this first part we hear from Christian Tzolov and Josh Long, Brian Vermeer, Camille Nigon and Maarten Vandeperre, Luca Berton, Soham Dasgupta, Mary Grygleski, and Anton Arhipov in Foojay Podcast #79.

Foojay Podcast #77: DevBcn Report, Part 2 - Spanish Knowledge Sharing

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 to the local community to share their view of the event. Jonathan Vila records with Marlene Maldonado, Barbara Teruggi, Santiago Rincon, Vicente Soriano, Alvaro Navarro, and Vicente Cabanes in Foojay Podcast #77, the final episode of Season 4.

Foojay Podcast #76: DevBcn Report, Part 1 – Learn from the Community

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 the ecosystem, and Geertjan Wielenga carried a recorder through the venue to capture their answers. We hear about favorite parts of Java, the impact of AI on daily coding, and the topics that pull developers toward new tools and ideas. This is part one of the DevBcn Report, hosted by Geertjan Wielenga with organizers Nacho Cougil and Jonathan Vila, plus more than twenty community members, in Foojay Podcast #76.

Foojay Podcast #75: JCON Report, Part 4 - Tips and Tricks for Java Devs

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 JCON 2025 speakers and attendees. We close out the JCON report series with short, focused chats covering tools, frameworks, and habits that make day-to-day Java work smoother. Joining me are Merlin Bögershausen, Eberhard Wolff, Annelore Egger, Michael Vitz, Michael Simons, Stefan Böhringer, Johannes Rabauer, Roland Weisleder, Simon Martinelli, Loïc Magnette, Tanja Obradovic, Syed Usman Ahmad, and François Martin in Foojay Podcast #75.

Foojay Podcast #74: JCON Report, Part 3 - AI, ChatGPT, LLM, ML, RAG, MCP, GenAI, and more

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 between sessions to ask exactly that. In this third and final JCON recap, Pasha Finkelshteyn, Simone de Gijt, Steve Poole, Sandra Ahlgrimm, Mary Grygleski, Jonathan Vila, Simon Martinelli, and Emily Jiang join me for Foojay Podcast #74, Season 4.

Foojay Podcast #73: JCON Report, Part 2 – Evolutions in the Java Language and Runtime

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 the runtime evolving right now. This is the second part of our JCON interview series, featuring Steve Poole, Hanno Embregts, Karl Heinz Marbaise, Cay Horstmann, Miro Wengner, Dmitry Chuyko, and Jens Knipper in Foojay Podcast #73.

Foojay Podcast #72: JCON Report, Part 1 - Grow your career, public speaking, 30 years of Java, greener coding,…

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 more, and code in a way that costs the planet less? This first part of our JCON report brings together short conversations with Richard Fichtner, Bruno Souza, Markus Westergren, Brian Vermeer, Aicha Laafia, Baruch Sadogursky, and Dmitry Yanter in Foojay Podcast #72.

Foojay Podcast #69: All Things Java at VoxxedDays Amsterdam

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 hallway chats into one show. Geertjan Wielenga asked every guest the same two questions about what they care about in Java right now and what they want to share with the community. The guest list includes Ko Turk, Stephan Janssen, Lutske de Leeuw, Johannes Bechberger, Christian Tzolov, Tom Cools, Eric-Wubbo Lameijer, Abraham van de Vyver, Soham Dasgupta, Josh Long, Susanne Pieterse, Brian Vermeer, Anton de Ruiter, Rafael De Lio, Jonathan Stronkhorst, Jos Roseboom, Soroosh Khodami, Artem Makarov, Kaya Weers, Eddy Vos, Paco van Beckhoven, Hanno Embregts, Martijn van Iersel, Charl Fasching, and Joris Kuipers, making this the first Foojay Podcast ever with more than 20 guests.

Foojay Podcast #64: Interviews at JFall about open source, OpenJDK evolutions, Project Loom, JVM, and more!

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 Loom and structured concurrency to writing your own language on the JVM. We close the year with Geertjan Wielenga, Nataliia Dziubenko, Hanno Embregts, Hinse ter Schuur, Anthony Goubard, Steffan Norberhuis, Paulien van Alst, Lutske de Leeuw, and Johan Hutting in Foojay Podcast #64.

TVH IT Talk, links of the talk Following the evolutions in Java with a look into the OpenJDK project

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 Waregem.

JFall NL, links of the talk Looking at Music, an experiment with Kotlin, JavaFX, MIDI, and Virtual Threads

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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.