Matt and Richard talk again about the mess that is Java versions, plus a bit about what we're working on and what's coming next at Virtual Pair Programmers

Podcast 15: Spark Core, Spark SQL and Spark ML

Oct 31st, 2018 42m 26s

Richard came into the office this morning in a real mood, had a rant, and so we decided to do a podcast today! It's all about Apache Spark this time.

Podcast 14: Java 11 is here

Oct 2nd, 2018 1h 10m

It's been a while but the latest podcast is now here... just after the official releaes of Java 11. Find out whether Java 11 is worth paying for, and whether you should be rushing to upgrade. We'll also mention what we're working on (SparkSQL a

Podcast 13: Java news roundup

May 10th, 2018 42m 14s

Java news - will Oracle sue us for using the Java name? Java 10 is live with a big new feature (local variable type inference) and JavaEE is now JakartaEE.Plus some talk about upcoming courses - Kotlin Programming and Kubernetes.Should Virtua

Podcast 12 : Java vs Scala

Apr 19th, 2018 13m 49s

Matt’s alone in the studio today – Richard is busy working on updating our courses, so Matt took the opportunity to interview Jon Humble, principle engineer at Sky Betting and Gaming. Find out about the technology stack Jon uses to support syst

Podcast 11 : Talking about the Java Stack Job Market

Jan 15th, 2018 27m 20s

Our special guest for this podcast is Matt Wood from IT recruitment firm www.fruitionit.co.uk/Matt and FruitionIT run "The JVM Thing", a community of Java Full stack developers - twitter.com/The_JVM_ThingWhat Java/JVM Stack skills are in dema

Podcast 10 : Anemic Domain Models

Nov 7th, 2017 59m 49s

Matt and Rich get round the fireside to talk about anemic domain models, and discuss the news of a proposal to include data classes in Java.In this episode Richard attempts to break the world record for the uses of the word "exactly" within an

Podcast 9 : UML

Oct 20th, 2017 1h 5m

Richard and Matt talk about their previous experience with UML and wonder if it still has a relevance for modern Agile projects.Despite Matt's valiant attempts, Richard fails to have a rant this week. But, he does manage to somehow squeeze in

Podcast 8 : Java 9 is Here!

Sep 28th, 2017 59m 39s

Matt and Rich run through what they think are the exciting features of Java 9, but they're not allowed to mention Jigsaw.What will Richard find to moan and rant about most this week? Java's new genius numbering system? Or people who want to ke

Podcast 7 : Design Patterns Special

Aug 30th, 2017 1h 10m

This week Richard has a rant about everybody's favourite design pattern. You won't believe which one it is. This podcast is slightly more entertaining than the Gang of Four book. Even Grady Booch gets a mention!

The Late Podcast 4 : Amazon AWS Interview

Aug 14th, 2017 49m 51s

If this podcast appears to be out of order, that's because it is! In June we recorded an interview with Ian Massingham, Worldwide Lead, AWS Technical Evangelism at Amazon Web Services. Unfortunately we weren't allowed to publish it without his

Podcast 6: Reactive

Aug 7th, 2017 52m 39s

In this podcast we muse about Reactive. What is it, and what courses should VirtualPairProgrammers do? We talk about Spring's upcoming WebFlux framework. Also news on the recent Docker release, and what's going to be in the new Web Development

Podcast 5: Kotlin

Jul 24th, 2017 1h 3m

In this episode Richard and Matt discuss Kotlin and what it can offer to the full stack Java developer. Plus updates on the progress with course development.

Podcast 3: Who owns Java?

Jun 15th, 2017 51m 55s

Matt and Richard discuss the thrilling subject of "Who Owns Java?". Is it Open Source? And why do Oracle think that Google owes them $8billion.Also, progress on upcoming courses and some musing about the future direction of VPP's support proce

Podcast 2: All things Java

May 31st, 2017 1h

In this second podcast, Richard and Matt talk about the upcoming JavaEE 8, what it is to be a full stack developer, langauges such as Kotlin and updates on progress with Thymeleaf and Docker courses.

Podcast 1 : Java 9 and Jigsaw

May 19th, 2017 55m 25s

In our first Podcast, we discuss the current state of Java 9, and Jigsaw in particular, plus we touch on thymeleaf, JSF, and there's an update on what we're working on too.

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