Interview with Stephen Colebourne on JSR 310 on the new Date Time API for JavaSE 8.
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Show Notes
News
- Night Hacking Tour underway
- JSR 335 (Lambdas) EDR #3
- Summary, materials and recording of Adopt-a-JSR online meeting
- Recording of JUG leads Call with Milton Smith, Oracle Security PM
- Loads of JSRs up for Public Review vote
- JSR-354 (Currency) may come into existence?
- SouJava launches new Brazil wide programme for Java community
- CFV: New project: AArch64
- Open sourcing of SQE FX Tests
- Building Java 8 on Windows
Events
- Jan 25-Feb 7, Nordic Night Hacking Tour
- Jan 29-31, Distributech, San Diego
- Feb 2-3 FOSDEM, Brussels
- Feb 2, Istanbul JUG, Turkey
- Feb 4-6 Jfokus, Sweden
- Feb 5-6 Jfokus Embedded, Sweden
- Feb 7, Goteburg JUG, Sweden<>
- Feb 18-19 DevNexus, Atlanta
- Feb 25-28, Mobile World Congress, Barcelona
- Feb 25-Mar 1, ConFoo, Canada
- Feb 26-28, Embedded World, Nuremberg
- Mar 3-7, HIMSS, New Orleans
- Mar 26-27, Devoxx UK, London
- Mar 26-29, Design West, San Jose
- Mar 27-28, Cartes - Asia Word-Expo, Hong Kong
Feature Interview
Stephen Colebourne is a Java Champion and JavaOne Rock Star speaker. He has been working with Java since version 1.0 and contributing to open source software since 2000. He has made major contributions to Apache Commons and created the Joda open source projects including Joda-Time. He blogs on Java topics and is a frequent conference speaker, including Devoxx and JavaOne. He is currently co-spec lead on JSR-310 and a contributor to discussions on language change such as Project Coin and Lambda.
The ThreeTen project is providing a new date and time API for JDK 1.8 as part of JSR-310.
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