Java Spotlight Episode 57: Live From #Devoxx - Ben Evans and Martijn Verburg of the London JUG with Yara Senger of SouJava
- by Roger Brinkley
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  Live from Devoxx 11,  an interview with Ben Evans and Martijn Verburg from the London JUG along with  Yara Senger from the SouJava JUG on the JCP Executive Committee Elections, JSR 248, and Adopt-a-JSR program. Both the London JUG and SouJava JUG are JCP Standard Edition Executive Committee Members. 
  Joining us this week on the Java All Star Developer Panel are Geertjan Wielenga, Principal Product Manger in Oracle Developer Tools; Stephen Chin, Java Champion and Java FX expert; and Antonio Goncalves, Paris JUG leader. 
   
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  Show Notes 
  News 
   
    Netbeans 7.1 JDK 7 upgrade tools 
    Netbeans First Patch Program 
    OpenJFX approved as an OpenJDK project 
    Devoxx France April 18-20, 2012 
    
  Events 
   
    Nov 22-25, OTN Developer Days in the Nordics 
    Nov 22-23, Goto Conference, Prague 
    Dec 6-8, Java One Brazil, Sao Paulo 
    
  Feature interview 
  Ben Evans has lived in "Interesting Times" in technology - he was the
 lead performance testing engineer for the Google IPO, worked on the 
initial UK trials of 3G networks with BT, built award-winning websites 
for some of Hollywood's biggest hits of the 90s, rearchitected and 
reimagined technology helping some of the most vulnerable people in the 
UK and has worked on everything from some of the UKs very first 
ecommerce sites, through to multi-billion dollar currency trading 
systems. He helps to run the London Java Community, and represents the 
JUG on the Java SE/EE Executive Committee. His first book "The 
Well-Grounded Java Developer" (with Martijn Verburg) has just been 
published by Manning. 
  Martijn Verburg (aka 'the Diabolical Developer') herds Cats in the 
Java/open source communities and is constantly humbled by the creative 
power to be found there. Currently he resides in London where he 
co-leads the London JUG (a JCP EC member), runs a couple of open source 
projects & drinks too much beer at his local pub. You can find him 
online moderating at the Javaranch or discussing (ranting?) subjects on 
the Prgorammers Stack Exchange site. Most recently he's become a regular
 speaker at conferences on Java, open source and software development 
and has recently wrapped up his first Manning title - "The Well-Grounded
 Java Developer" with his co-author Ben Evans. 
  Yara Senger is the partner and director of teacher education and 
Globalcode, graduated from the University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, has 
significant experience in Brazil and abroad in developing solutions to 
critical Java. She is the co-creator of Java programs Academy and 
Academy of Web Developer, accumulating over 1000 hours in the classroom 
teaching Java. She currently serves as the President of Sou Java. 
  In this interview Ben, Martijn, and Yara talk about the JCP Executive Committee Elections, JSR 348, and the Adopt-a-JSR program.  
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