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  • Azul Puts the Zing in Java

    In this interview Gil Tene dives deep into the history of Azul Systems and its commitment to deliver robust, scalable Java systems. He tells of the origins of the company and its early Vega hardware. Tene also talk about the new Zing elastic runtime platform for Java apps. And he speaks on the Managed Runtime Initiative Azul launched. He also talks on Pauseless GC and elastic memory.

    Azul Puts the Zing in Java
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    48:59
  • Josh Bloch on Java and Programming

    In this interview, Google’s Josh Bloch shares his views on the open-source Java landscape as well as on the future of the Java language, including changes being implemented via Project Coin. Bloch also discusses support for multi-core in programming languages, support for multiple languages on the JVM, Java pain points and the “next big language.”

    Josh Bloch on Java and Programming
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    19:26
  • Brad Abrams on Google, Spring Tools Integration

    In this interview Google tools honcho from Brad Abrams talks about how Google tools integrate with Spring tools to help make Java developers’ lives easier. Abrams discusses Google’s reasons for targeting the popular Spring Framework. He also delves into the integrations between Google App Engine, Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and Speed Tracer with Spring tools such as Roo, STS, Spring Insight and more.

    Brad Abrams on Google, Spring Tools Integration
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    22:14
  • Laforge and Rocher Discuss the future of Groovy, Grails and Java

    In this interview, Graeme Rocher and Guillaume Laforge of SpringSource talk about the present and future of the Grails framework and the Groovy language. Rocher talks about Grails 1.4 and some of its enhancements such as improvements to GORM. And Laforge discusses Groovy 1.8, which features new DSL authoring capabilities, among other things. They look at how Java’s future impacts their projects.

    Laforge and Rocher Discuss the future of Groovy, Grails and Java
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    22:23
  • Scala, Erlang, F# Creators Discuss Functional Languages

    In this interview from the Erlang Factory event in London, three creators of modern functional languages -- Martin Odersky, creator of Scala; Joe Armstrong, a creator of Erlang; and Don Syme, creator of F# -- discuss the similarities and differences of their creations. They also discuss their languages’ common thread -- that they integrate object-oriented features in functional languages.

    Scala, Erlang, F# Creators Discuss Functional Languages
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    32:36
  • Kresten Krab Thorup, Robert Virding Discuss the Erlang VM

    Kresten Krab Thorup and Robert Virding discuss the origins of Erlang, the state of the Erlang VM, integrating native code with Erlang etc. Also: the challenges of running Erjang/Erlang on the JVM.

    Kresten Krab Thorup, Robert Virding Discuss the Erlang VM
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    56:05
  • Kresten Krab Thorup on Erjang, JVM Languages, Kilim

    Kresten Krab Thorup talks about the Erjang project and explains the challenges of bringing Erlang to the JVM, using Kilim for lightweight processes, the implementation of tail recursion and much more.

    Kresten Krab Thorup on Erjang, JVM Languages, Kilim
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    31:02
  • David Pollak On Lift Framework and Scala

    David Pollak talks about using Scala to write the Lift web development framework and his desire to write a productive framework that allows the developer to write concise code on top of a very strongly typed language.

    David Pollak On Lift Framework and Scala
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    41:14
  • Neal Ford On Programming Languages and Platforms

    Neal Ford talks about the tendency of having multiple languages running on one of the two major platforms existing today: Java and .NET. He also presents the advantages offered by Ruby compared to static languages like Java or C#.

    Neal Ford On Programming Languages and Platforms
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    31:39
  • Charles Nutter discusses JRuby

    JRuby project lead Charles Nutter discusses how he got involved with JRuby, Sun's involvement with JRuby, how JRuby fits into enterprise-level web applications, the possibility of a friendly fork of the OpenJDK source code, reasons for switching to JRuby, the future of JRuby, Spring and JRuby, and the Ruby community as a whole.

    Charles Nutter discusses JRuby
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    12:45
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