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.
Foojay Podcast #59: DevRel Explained and How to Become a Conference Speaker
Wondering what a Developer Relations job actually involves, or how to get on stage at a conference for the first time? We brought together a panel who lives this every week to …
Devoxx BE, 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 Wednesday October 9th, 16:40-17:30, Room 7.
Foojay Podcast #53: JCON Report, Part 5 – CQRS, JOOQ, GraphQL, API, Vaadin, OpenRewrite, ErrorProne, Gateways, Proxies
Evolving an API without breaking clients stays one of the hardest jobs in backend work. This fifth and final JCON recap walks through how speakers tackle that problem and many …
Foojay Podcast #52: JCON Report, Part 4 – Garbage Collectors, Intelligence Cloud, Test Containers and Flaky Tests, ToxiProxy, Structured Concurrency, Virtual Threads
Garbage collectors, virtual threads, and flaky tests sit at the heart of many Java teams’ daily headaches. At JCON we caught up with speakers who had fresh, hands-on takes on …
Foojay Podcast #50: JCON Report, Part 2 - Maven, Software Security, Code Quality
A broken build pipeline or a sneaky transitive dependency can derail a Java project for days. The talks at JCON kept coming back to the same question. How do we keep our code …
Foojay Podcast #49: JCON Report, Part 1 - JUGs, Communities, Open Source, Generative AI, LangChain4j, Machine Learning
Walking the floor at a Java conference is the fastest way to learn what the community actually cares about right now. We packed a microphone and took the Foojay Podcast on the road …
Foojay Podcast #48: JUG Oberpfalz, JCON Conference, and JAVAPRO Magazine
A small Java meetup in the Oberpfalz region of Germany sparked something much bigger. The same people behind that local group also run the JCON conference in Cologne and publish …
Search in Documentation with a JavaFX ChatGPT-like LangChain4j Application
At the Fosdem conference in Brussels on February 3rd, I gave a presentation about using an existing documentation set as the data for a ChatGPT-like application, created with …
Links of the Presentation: Experimenting with AI and LLM to make docs searchable through a chat application
These are all the links of my presentation at the Fosdem Conference in Brussels, Saturday, February 3th, 2024, 17:40 CET.
Links of the Presentation: What I Learned About OpenJDK As a Docs Writer
These are all the links of my presentation at the JChampions Conference, Monday January 29, 2024, 16:00 CET.
Foojay Podcast #39: Java Dominicana
Java user groups grow in every corner of the world, and each one tells a story about the people who keep it alive. This time we travel to the Caribbean to hear how a …
Foojay Podcast #37: J-Fall Report, Part 4 (final)
J-Fall packs a full year of Java conversations into a single day in the Netherlands, and one report episode does not fit it all. This is the fourth and final part of our hallway …
Interviews at the J-Fall 2023 Conference
I had a lot of interesting talks with Java experts since I started producing the Foojay Podcast . But when I asked the organizers of the J-Fall conference , if I could do some kind …
Foojay Podcast #36: J-Fall Report, Part 3
One conference day at J-Fall produces more good conversations than a single podcast episode can hold. That is why this third installment exists. We grabbed a quiet corner with …
Foojay Podcast #34: J-Fall Report, Part 2
Conferences pack a year of conversations into a few hallway minutes. At J-Fall 2023 in the Netherlands, we grabbed a microphone and asked speakers and attendees what they care …
Foojay Podcast #33: J-Fall Report, Part 1
A Java conference hallway is where the real conversations happen, so we brought the microphones to one. We set up a Foojay Broadcast Room right in the entrance of the Pathé cinema …
Foojay Podcast #32: Philippines JUG
Java communities look different in every country, and the Philippines shows that well. A younger crew now leads the local JUG and shapes the Softcon conference at the same time. In …
Foojay Podcast #31: Report of Devoxx '23 in Belgium
Devoxx Belgium hit its 20th edition in 2023, and over 3000 Java developers packed into Antwerp to swap ideas and learn. We grabbed a microphone, walked the venue, and asked …
Links of the Presentation: Unlocking the Potential of Bits and Bytes
These are all the links of my presentation at Devoxx Belgium, Wednesday 12:00-12:50, Room 7.
Foojay Podcast #18: Atlanta JUG and DevNexus
Running a Java User Group takes more than a meeting room and good intentions. It takes volunteers, a legal structure, venues, sponsors, and years of steady work. We sat down with …