Part 2 of an interview with Dr Heinz Kabutz, Java Champion, on the secrets of concurrency.

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Show Notes

News

• JavaOne Opening Day starts early – take note!
• JavaOne Community Keynote 2013
• Duke Choice Awards
• Debian moves up to OpenJDK 7
• OpenJDK Testing Pitfalls presentation by Stuart Marks
• GlassFish User Group in London inaugural meeting
• JMS using GlassFish in Jelastic
• Apache Tomcat 8 RC - Java EE 7 (WebSocket 1.0, Servlet 3.1, EL 3.0)
• WebLogic 12.1.2 Launch
• NetBeans 7.4 Beta

Events

• Aug 17 OpenJDK Test Fest in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
• Aug 20-30 Java EE 7 Celebrations in Africa
• Sep 11-12, JavaZone, Oslo, Norway
• Strange Loop, St. Louis
• Sep 22-26 JavaOne San Francisco 2013, USA
• Oct 5-6, SVCC, San Francisco Bay Area
• Oct 28-30, JAX London, London

Feature Interview

Heinz is a Java programmer living on the beaches of the Island of Crete in the Mediterranean.  It is from there that he publishes his entertaining "Java Specialists' Newsletter", read by about 70000 Java experts in at least 130 countries (http://www.javaspecialists.eu/countries.html). Heinz tries to "push the envelope" with Java, so if you've ever wondered how to create new enum values on-the-fly (and why this is a bad idea, but why it might be useful), or if you want tips on Java coding style and threading, this publication might be for you.  Warning: It is only for advanced Java programmers and those with a sense of humor.

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