Jim Grisanzio
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I’ve been reading “Why We Need Continual Learning” by Malika Aubakirova and Matt Bornstein recently. I also listened to a podcast from Malika. Now, I’m no AI researcher. But I do like exploring the scientific foundations on which advanced software tools are built, especially since I use these things every day and hope to leverage…
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Duke’s Corner Java Podcast — Bruno Borges at JavaOne 2026 Jim Grisanzio from Oracle Java Developer Relations talks with Bruno Borges from Microsoft at JavaOne 2026. Bruno works on GitHub’s Core AI developer relations team. The conversation covers the future of Java in a world of AI, the value of learning core computer science fundamentals…
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In March it was my honor to host a JavaOne 2026 Community Keynote panel with Brian Vermeer, Mala Gupta, and Bruno Souza.
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I was at JavaOne 2026 in California last week. I participated onstage at the Community Keynote and also recorded some audio podcasts, which I’ll post over the next few months at Duke’s Corner. And since I’m on the team that produced the week-long event itself, I had many other duties to attend to throughout the…
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From Cal Newport in the NYT : “The problems I focused on in Deep Work, and in my writing since, have been getting steadily worse. In 2016 my main concern was helping people find enough free time for deep work. Today I think we’re rapidly losing the ability to think deeply at all, regardless of…
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Duke’s Corner Java Podcast, March 15, 2026 — Bob Treacy: From the Factory Floor to Harvard and 30 Years of Java Bob Treacy started his career as a union steward on the factory floor at GE Aircraft Engines. After earning a BS and MS in Computer Science from Boston University while also raising a family,…
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As a test, I recently requested that Grokipedia update its page on OpenSolaris to include the source code release history I kept while I was the community manager. There were over 80 releases of source code, entire projects, and technical documentation during the five years of the project. I kept the history here. Anyway, I…
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Twenty-five years ago, a small team of software developers in Prague wanted to build something better. That’s a common characteristic among all good engineers. There is always something better to build. The result in this case was IntelliJ IDEA. And this documentary — IntelliJ IDEA: The Documentary | An origin story — explores how it…
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Marc Andreessen has been right about a lot of things. He co-invented Mosaic, which inspired Netscape and helped popularize the web that was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. He identified the concept of “software eating the world” well before most people knew what that even meant. In 2011, he predicted that within a decade…
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Still the best quote I have about how to move an idea forward among a group of Open Source kernel developers. Pure gold. Back on OpenSolaris years ago we had a lot of community conversations and flame wars that started out with the “Why don’t you just …” construction and then things spun around from…
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Interesting film here: The Story of Python and how it took over the world | Python: The Documentary There’s plenty of drama in the story of Python. And it wasn’t especially obvious early on that Python would survive, but all these years later Python still thrives. It’s a cool story. It’s a story of highly skilled software…
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How Elon Works | How Elon Thinks: There are endless lessons in these two podcasts about how Elon Musk works and thinks. Love him or hate him, there is still much to learn from such a powerful person who controls so many resources. Steve Jobs was a similar character in technology. Anyway, on the Musk…
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Duke’s Corner Java Podcast | February 3, 2026 | Paul Bakker: Go Build a Lot of Stuff! This is the third in a short series of speaker profiles for JavaOne 2026 in Redwood Shores, California, March 17-19. Get early bird pricing until February 9, and for a limited time, take advantage of a $100 discount…
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Marit van Dijk and Anton Arhipov: 25 Years of IntelliJ IDEA | Duke’s Corner Java Podcast | January 29, 2026 This is the second in a short series of speaker profiles for JavaOne 2026 in Redwood Shores, California, March 17-19. Get early bird pricing until February 9, and for a limited time, take advantage of…
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Jeanne Boyarsky: Get Ready for Java 25 Certification | Duke’s Corner Java Podcast, January 21, 2026 This is the first in a short series of speaker profiles for JavaOne 2026 in Redwood Shores, California, March 17-19. Get early bird pricing until February 9, and for a limited time, take advantage of a $50 discount by…
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Over the years I’ve worked on teams in construction, marketing, publishing, and software. I ran my own excavating business, built and sold homes and raw land, drove multiple big-rig trucks, and fixed heavy equipment as a mechanic. I also wrote magazine articles and managed publicity campaigns for companies and universities and worked with governments and…
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Duke’s Corner Java Podcast — Chris Hermansen: Don’t be Afraid to Create Summary Jim Grisanzio from Java Developer Relations talks with Chris Hermansen, a Java developer, consultant, and data analyst from Canada. Chris discovered Java in the 1990s and was drawn to its free accessibility and object-oriented design. He particularly appreciated Java’s straightforward single inheritance…
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Here’s the latest Java Platform Extension for Visual Studio Code with Java 25 and notebooks support. And 4.6 million downloads too! Great job by the Java engineering team in India! I hope to meet the team there when I go back to India in April 2026 for a session at GIDS. Will also stop by…
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There is an active Java engineering community throughout Japan with more than 10,000 developers. And some of them are contributing to OpenJDK! Here are three Japanese presentations about their experiences contributing to OpenJDK: Chihiro Ito, Daishi Tabata, Peyangu. Also, here’s a session about the Japan Java User Group (JJUG) from Takaaki Sugiyama.