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Illegal Argument
by Mark Derricutt
Greg, Mark and Richard get together weekly and talk about things of interest in the Java community. Greg works for SimWorks (http://www.simworks.com) who specialize in mobile phone software. Mark works for SecureMX (www.smx.co.nz). Richard works for Blue Train Software (http://www.bluetrainsoftware.com)
Episodes
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180: rightFolds in an AI world?
Episode 180: rightFolds in an AI world? rightFolds as a pun on Mark's recent right vocal fold surgery, healing means we're good to record again, plus IA celebrates 17 years of existence, even if episodes have seriously lacked of late. Last episode Aug 27, 2025 - it's been a while. Does language...
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Is this still on?
C++ Three Cool Things in C++26: Safety, Reflection & std::execution - Herb Sutter - C++ on Sea 2025 Java Java 25 to be released September 16 New Features in Java 25 | Baeldung Primitive Types in Patterns (JEP 507 – Third Preview) Module Import Declarations (JEP 511 – Preview) Scoped Values (JEP…
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178: Java 22 Released! And I Am The Technical Debt
Last week, Greg and I had the pleasure of sitting down with Andres Almiray from Oracle to discuss this week's release of Java 22. I was hoping to get this episode out sooner but ended up fighting it out with a fever. Alert Notification https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/java-on-macos-14-4 Java 22...
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New Year, Old Year? What Year!?!
It's been a long time (again) between recording/discussions, but finally, for the end of the year, we locked some time to record. Java 9 Outdated Ideas About Java - Azul | Better Java Performance, Superior Java Support Hidden gems in Java 19, Part 1: The not-so-hidden JEPs JDK 20: The new…
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176 - Better Late Than Never?
Non-tech Music Banter An Updated Look At Concert Merchandise Sales & Trends in 2022 Why Venues Take Merch Cuts The Taylor Swift Economy: The largest music tour in history is a hospitality phenomenon A litany of languages and their passing, software archaeology and the issues of adopting new...
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175: 18 And Life...
Episode 175 - 18 And Life Until last week, I was going to open the show saying it's been a long time since we last recorded, but we slipped in an interview with the guys from plz.review - so that's not exactly true anymore. It has, however, still been a while since we've had a normal, full…
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Episode 174: plz.review
Reddit Post: Improving on the GitHub code review comment experience : programming Blog Post: Bit Complete Blog: Improving on the GitHub code review comment experience | Bit Complete Inc. YouTube Introduction Video: Introduction to plz.review - YouTube Website: plz.review Guests: Dylan Trotter…
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173: The Red Zone
Catchups Happy New Year! Log4j Issues, fall out, ranty commentary And now PostgreSQL JDBC gets a 9.8 CVE: Java Stuff Java 18 set for March 22, 2022 The new features in Java 18 Mark Reinhold: There are no unresolved P1 bugs in build 36, so that is the first JDK 18 Release Candidate. Binaries...
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172: Separating The Release From The Build
Once again it's been a long time coming between episodes, Auckland's recent extended Covid lock down and Mark's unscheduled and temporary relocation meant we missed out on discussion the release of Java 17 - and with Java 18 not all that far away, we thought it was about time to once again get…
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171: Breaking (up) The Build
In an unprecedented show of activity - merely two weeks after the new years first episode (170) Mark and Greg are back, this time joined by Andres Almiray (Oracle) and Stephen Connolly (Cloudbees) to discuss all things build, modules, this weeks Java 16 release, and why Java programmers should…
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170: The UI is Broken!
Illegal Argument Episode 170 Mark and Greg emerge from their 2020/2021 Christmas/New Year breaks, and temporary Level 3 lock down to break their silence, attempt to remember how to podcast, and further the rumor that we only record an episode on the eve of a new Java release. Table of Contents…
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Don't Tweet Non Truths
OpenJDK · GitHub Plans for optimal performance: why CircleCI is changing our pricing model - CircleCI Standalone Nashorn is coming for Java 15+ Jbang Property-based Testing in Java: Jqwik - a JUnit 5 Test Engine - My Not So Private Tech Life ABNF for TLDS tldlabel = ALPHA *61(ldh) ld ldh = ld /…
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The Greg Cast
Welcome to The Greg Cast The Virtual World Podcast On The Metal Podcast JavaZone 2020 Ron Pressler: Scalable Harmonious Concurrency for the Java Platform Virtual Threads Async / Await Why Continuations are Coming to Java Java Platform Retention Graal Based Frameworks JavaZone: Building a...
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The Joy of Java
After a lockdown/reopen period we're back with another argument. WARNING: The recording dropped out half way thru, and… creative edits were made. Your ears have been warned. Java 15 Ramp Down Second preview of Records Greg doesn't care for new JDKs whereas Mark wants to treat the JDK as "just a...
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Technical Writing
What's this? Another Illegal Argument episode already? And so close to the last one - it seems the shift to working from home and remote recording has already showed a payoff. During the last episode, I'd had it in my mind to discuss the need to improve our documentation, and general…
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Illegal Argument - Episode 165
Welcome to the "Locked Down Dependencies" remote recorded using Squadcast.fm whilst both Greg and I are stuck in a national COVID-19 lockdown. Full links to topics discussed can be found in the shared bookmark folder on Raindrop, but during tonights episode we discuss: How lockdown is affecting…
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Episode 164 - Moments before Isolation
Welcome to the first episode of 2020 - recorded just before all of Coronavirus Mania and then promptly the editing and publishing got unfortunately thrown to the sidelines for a week. This week (ha) Greg and I discuss the upcoming Java 14 release, along with C++20, and the granddaddy of…
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163: The Continuation
Topics Fibre's are dead - long live "Virtual Threads" Undelimited continuations are not functions R2DBC 0.8.0 goes GA - Reactive database clients for Java RUST: Shipping a compiler every 6 weeks User reported stable regressions Bisecting Rust Compiler Regressions with cargo-bisect-rustc…
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162. A Conservative JDK/Java Migration Path
CppCon 2018: Thoughts on a more powerful and simpler C++ (5 of N) - Herb Sutter Resources for writing modern Java Java 8 adoption process Conservative migration Build under new JDK Deploy on JDK THEN switch bytecode target to new JDK or... keep main build JDK target, move tests to target new JDK...
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Illegal Argument: Episode 161
00:00:00: Intro 00:01:25: Java 12 Is Upon Us 39 New Features (and APIs) in JDK 12 Mapping With Switch Expressions 00:12:31: Supporting Multiple JVM Versions In Libraries Apache Maven Compiler Plugin: Multi Release multi-release-jar-maven-plug Building Java 6-8 Libraries for JPMS in Gradle…
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Episode 160
00:00:00: Intro 00:02:37: Java 11 Is Here Java 11 Released 00:07:22: JEP 342: The JVM and Spectre 00:10:42: Chrome Blocking Add Blockers Google Chrome could soon kill off most ad-blocker extensions 00:15:06: Integrity In Tool Usage 00:20:33: Pharo Release Pharo 7 Released Monticella is a...
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Episode 159: The Forth
jpackage builds available building rpms, debs, MSI, and PKG installers too little too late? Have we all loved to kubernetes and orchestration systems. JDK 12 now in Rampdown and due in March c builds / versions c++ 98 to c++ 11 Faster Delivery of Large C/C Using Facebook Folly with Conan Fedora...
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Episode 158: Java 11 was quietly released...
It's been a long time between episodes, with illness, work, and rock'n'roll getting in the way - but after planning to get another episode out to discuss the recent Java 11 release, not even the arrival of Japanese doom band Church of Misery (my youtube video and photos/review) was going to stop...
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Episode 157: The Return of The Richard
Stuck In A Rut... Java Mission Control Open Sourced - Flight Recorder JEP Continuous Delivery Kubernetes Istio No more Apache Maven Releases - only SNAPSHOTs, into Docker images. Why scale? Maven Plugins and compile time code generation Jepsen analysis of Hazelcast 3.8.3 Why I'm leaving open source
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Episode 156 - Java 10 is the new Java 2
It may have just clocked into April, but the first Illegal Argument of the year is finally here, much delayed, and extra long in it's twists and turns of… well, let's face it - you know it would be build didn't you…. JEP-223 - New Version-String Scheme Redfin Video on converting from Maven to…
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155: The End of the Year was demarcated by Annotations.
For an ostensibly forthrightly podcast, we only managed 10 episodes this year, of which one was a mini-solo cast from Mark, too many holidays and rock concerts getting in the way of recording. Hopefully we can be more organised in 2019! The years podcasts: 145: Java 9 and The Case of the…
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154: Don't Run Into Walls
Broken builds, continuous integration, feature flags and deprecations? Maven Release And Sub-Directories- from Richard Vowles The Future is Now by Rachel White - Grinders and Biohacking Facebook Flow - Static Analyser for Javascript Java 10 builds are available Using JDK 10's Local Variable Type...
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153: Strutting Like A Cowboy
Severe security vulnerability found in Apache Struts using lgtm.com (CVE-2017-9805) XML? Be cautious! The Backdoor Threat Java News Moving Java Forward - 6 month release cycle, breaking changes. 3 yearly LTS versions Java 9 will NOT be an LTS release Module Hell - java.ee not in base ( easy to…
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152: XML Beware
A short minisode on Apache Struts, XML deserialisation attacks, and Equifax. XML? Be cautious! Severe security vulnerability found in Apache Struts using lgtm.com (CVE-2017-9805) CVE-2017-9805: Analysis of Apache Struts RCE Vulnerability in REST Plugin Apache Struts Statement on Equifax Security...
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151: I'm A Teapot
Save 418 - I was hoping to actually shift the discussion of "Save 418" more towards the importance of specifications, and how 'in the old days' protocols/specs were king, as everything was reused and distributed - but now, it's "the Twitter API" or "the Facebook API" — still, we managed an…
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150: Breaching the Summit
Initially tonight's episode was going to be called "The Patch Is All" (guess whose been enjoying the new season of Killjoys?) — with a discussion about pre code-review practises, however with Peter's absence, the discussion centred mostly around the 2017 Java Language Summit which was taking…
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Episode 149 - null == 400;
Project Valhalla Value Types give up value identity JEP 169: Value Object specification JEP 218: Generics over Primitive Types Value Types in the JVM - Scaladays 2015 talk ( Youtube, 48 minutes ) Whats in JDK9? Is SpringBoot/Grails good for Prototyping only? startups: fire your dev teams A…
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Episode 148 - Project Glass Tile
Join us for an another semi informed, highly subjective, and quite possibly wrong on all counts discussion about Java, Jigsaw. Revised Jigsaw Spec - reflective access allowed by default, I'm calling it Project Glass Tile - everything is transparent and smoothly fitting together again ( if not…
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Episode 147
Apoligies one and all for the late episode delivery, our host/engineer/pulisher ( aka me, Mark ) was off galavanting taking photos of Living Colour, Greenday, and Devin Townsend this week and got waylaid in editing/publishing the show! But fret not dear listeners, come one, come all - and hear…
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Illegal Argument Episode 146
Guest - Emanuele Ziglioli from Sirtrack on upgrading a legacy swing app to Java 8 / DukeScript Netbeans Swing GUI Builder ( formally Project Matisse ) Totally Grid Bag(YouTube Video) JavaFX Self-Contained Application Packaging Inno Setup for Windows JEP 282: jlink: The Java Linker Iridium NEXT...
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Episode 145: Java 9 and The Case of the Automatic Module
Java 9 and The Case of the Automatic Module Haskell and The Case of the Sad State of Tutorials Functional Education KITTENS - DATATYPE-GENERIC FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING WITH SCALA(YouTube Video) How to Bake Pi Scala Macros Roadmap scala.meta is the new macro system. Metaprogramming 2.0 by Eugene...
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Episode 144 - Everything Sucks
Slack sucks, and Greg can rewrite it in a day. Self hosted slack? Hipchat from Atlasssian Matter Most Electron based Apps - scourge of memory ASCIIDOCTOR is based on Ruby, and in my project which uses it I get weird JRuby/Gems problems - ONLY under jenkins on linux. Pupper + Ruby + Gems / Chef ^...
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Illegal Argument 143
The 12 Factor App NixOS and NixOps HuntBugs Tabs slower than Spaces in Firefox max combined bytecode size for Hotspot to consider inlining: 325 bytes. IntelliJ-generated assertion for one @NotNull parameter: 48 bytes. Gradle hate ( not Maven this time! ) gradle-script-kotlin Kotlin Meets Gradle
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Illegal Argument - 142: Making builds by making make make MakeFiles.
Making builds by making make make MakeFiles. Building Go From Make - bad puns and jokes, Gentoo/Debian packaging Maven - the best of the bunch of bad things. Separating build from dependency management. Releases as tagged source code - binaries are just 'artefacts of the build' Gophers, please…
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Illegal Argument #141 - Rusty Kotlin
Languages with alternate base numbering systems? My URL isn't your URL We explain ourselves better - or do we? Swiftkey Clarity keyboard written in Clojure Rust / Kotlin IntelliJ Rust IDE- Gitter.im chat Rust Racer Functional Programming with Kotlin Libraries Netflix Ribbon Kotlin funKTionale…
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Illegal Argument #140
Lately it seems we've been rather busy to record, so it was good to finally get 2/3's of us together to actually record, and discuss languages from a less argumentative level ( no wild type theory arguments or build rants ) even tho some of those familiar topics arose in passing. Most of this…
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Illegal Argument - Episode 139
So it's been a quiet few months in the build cycle but we thought it was about time to release a new episode, so here - enjoy episode 139 - largely unedited, unprepared, full of ranty goodness. Jigsaw is finally in Java C# is a better language Properties...
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Illegal Argument 138: My jigsaw is broken...
Java 9 Delayed by 6 months Jigsaw is a Shibboleth Rust Language Rusty Radio Podcast New Rustacean Podcast Rust Screencast Series Pure4j PSA: PostgreSQL JDBC Driver Bugs Data corruption caused by prepared statement cache fix: fix invalid values when receiving int2, int4, int8 via getBigDecimal()...
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Episode 137 - Oops I compressed it again...
Lambdas and C++ Performance JavaZone 2015 Talks JavaZone 2015 on Vimeo Code Tools: jmh for micro benchmarks. Introduction to JMH What is -XX:+UseCompressedOops in 64bit JVM JDK 8: UseCompressedClassPointers vs UseCompressedOops Java Mission Control ( Flight Recorder )
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Illegal Argument - Episode (succ 135)
This “weeks” argument was recorded on the Back to the Future day, and then eventually edited and published a long overdue time later… That’s time travel. Garbage Collection in Go Java Garbage Collectors Adding Rusts Ownership model to Java? Java 9 - State of the Java Module System Java 9 and…
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Illegal Argument Episode 135 - DukeScript
Emanuele Ziglioli as guest. DukeScript JavaScript Core Netbeans HTML/Java Plugin XCode Ghost - Hundreds of apps infected by fake Xcode tools, Apple removing known malicious software from App Store. Instances of Non-Capturing Lambdas You can’t provide a default hashCode() method from an interface....
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Episode 134: Subscription Expired.
Jetbrains License Subscription Jetbrains Toolbox Jetbrains Lockin: We Told You So Build Tool lock-in? Java Evangelists being let go? AsciidocFX Editor JavaOne 2015 JavaZone 2015 Project Sumartra: Letting Java Applications use the GPU. C++ CMake Build Tool BiiCode Dependency Management CPP Cast -...
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Episode 133
Fork/Join DivideTask.java from Peter. Purely Functional DataStructures - PDF book by Chris Okasaki. JavaZone 2014 - 6000 minutes of learning Under the Hood of the HotSpot G1 Garbage Collector by Bengt Rutisson. Microservices and Node.JS Jenkins and the dreaded Maven Plugin Jenkins Docker Plugin...
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Illegal Argument Episode 132
JDK 8 Adoption Problems Application Services not supporting JDK8 yet ANTLR 3 do not compile under JDK8 - Apache Cassandra bug link. Developers Are Adopting Java 8 In Droves Java 8: Will It See More Rapid Adoption? Java 8 adoption rate higher than expected Survey Results – Java 8, Spring 4 and...
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Illegal Argument Episode 131
Join Mark, Greg, and Peter and we wax lyrically about 4k screens, driver issues, how node.js and NPM love /tmp and somehow.... just somehow - fail to rant about types or build for a change...
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Greg, Mark and Richard get together weekly and talk about things of interest in the Java community. Greg works for SimWorks (http://www.simworks.com) who specialize in mobile phone software. Mark works for SecureMX (www.smx.co.nz). Richard works for Blue Train Software (http://www.bluetrainsoftware.com)
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