Public perception is that #Apple is behind Google, Microsoft, and Facebook in #ai . Here’s a quick fix, Apple: Rename your devices. aiPhone, aiPad, and aiMac are a good start. You’re welcome!

There's only one QCon! Well, technically, there are three (London, New York, San Francisco). But if you want to hear how Meta built Threads, you gotta be here. Gosh, I hope he didn't give this talk someplace else... 😅 Anyway, really learning a lot at #QConLondon !

Holy cow: “Meta has had issues keeping AI talent [...] Meta reportedly pays AI researchers up to $2 million, which is less than the $5 million to $10 million paid by OpenAI.”

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Thank you to Sébastien Deleuze and Oliver Drotbohm 🥁 & 👨‍💻 for patiently answering my questions. And then waiting a long time for the article to appear! Next time I’ll be quicker.

My free newsletter measures #Java technology popularity by following the money: job ads in 59 countries, online course purchases by 60+ million developers, Google searches, and Stack Overflow questions. Read the Q4/2023 edition: bpf.li/n234

Thank you to Simon Ritter for patiently answering my questions about how CRaC works – and the ones in the article.

Happy to be at DevoxxUK 🇬🇧 8-10 May 2024! As I found out later, my choice of a yellow t-shirt was unfortunate: The conference helpers have yellow t-shirts, too. But as my t-shirt reads, “I love coding and maybe 3 people”, nobody mistakes me for a helpful person. Or even a friendly one! 😉

How do you know you're at a developer conference? The restroom queue is at the men's room.

Can you guess the conference?

My monthly newsletter goes quarterly. But I’ll keep the “Java Technology Popularity Index”: What technologies companies hire for, what courses developers buy, what they search for, and what they ask about at Stack Overflow.
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Read the February 2023 issue of my newsletter at bpf.li/n72.

This month in 'How to Build #Java Applications Today': Scala beats Kotlin in job ads,@Quarkus & The Micronaut Framework steady as #3 & #4 in job ads, Java InfoQ Trends Report 2022, #Eclipse IDE 2022-12, and one in five Java developers uses VSCode Java.

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Unfortunately, this one’s a bit late due to our article backlog in November. But it’s worth reading for the answers from Dan Heidinga, Sébastien Deleuze, Jason Greene, Graeme Rocher, and Tomáš Langer alone!

Some software marketing guys don't want to be in marketing anymore and call themselves 'content developers' now. Does that make us developers 'code developers'? Will sales guys be 'solution developers'? IT guys 'compute developers'? And HR people 'human developers'? 🤔

If you have a Mac and use Apple’s music app, then give Spotica Menu a try! It puts music controls into the menubar - and gives them keyboard shortcuts!

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This month in 'How to Build #Java Applications Today': Spring Boot 3 brings Java 17, Jakarta EE 9, and native Java with GraalVM, Spring Modulith structures Spring Boot 3 applications with modules & events, and a new UI in IntelliJ 2022.3.

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And here are the topics for the LondonJavaCommunity Unconference 2022.

I‘m at the ⁦LondonJavaCommunity⁩ Unconference at the wonderful ⁦IBM⁩ offices in London. ⁦Steve Poole⁩ lays down the law of the land for us. This will be a fun day!

#Java developers of Greater London: Want to mingle with other Java developers, listen to two Java talks, and get a dinner? And all for free? Then join the second LJC 'Java Live' on Wed, 23 November: eventbrite.co.uk/e/java-live-wi…