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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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Signup to Generate a PitchIllegal Argument is hosted by Mark Derricutt. The show has published 100 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "180: rightFolds in an AI world?" (26 May 2026, 57 minutes), "Is this still on?" (27 August 2025, 74 minutes), and "178: Java 22 Released! And I Am The Technical Debt" (25 March 2024, 65 minutes).
Illegal Argument publishes roughly irregularly, with episodes averaging 69 minutes across 100 episodes.
Booking probability for Illegal Argument is 24%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Illegal Argument requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Illegal Argument's contact route on record: verified email.
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Mark Derricutt hosts Illegal Argument, a technology podcast with 100 episodes published.
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Episode #180
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...
Episode #179
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 –...
<p>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...
Episode #177
<p>It's been a long time (again) between recording/discussions, but finally, for the end of the year, we locked some time to record.</p> Java 9 Outdated Ideas About Java - Azul | Better Java Performance, Superior Java...
Episode #176
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...
Episode #175
Episode 175 - 18 And Life <p>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...
Episode #174
<p>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...
Episode #173
<h1 >Catchups</h1> Happy New Year! Log4j Issues, fall out, ranty commentary And now PostgreSQL JDBC gets a 9.8 CVE: <h1 >Java Stuff</h1> Java 18 set for March 22, 2022 The new features in Java 18 Mark Reinhold: There...
Episode #172
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...
Episode #171
<p>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...
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<h1 >Illegal Argument Episode 170</h1> <p>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...
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<p>OpenJDK · GitHub</p> <p> Plans for optimal performance: why CircleCI is changing our pricing model - CircleCI</p> <p> Standalone Nashorn is coming for Java 15+</p> <p>Jbang</p> <p>Property-based Testing in Java...
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<p>Welcome to The Greg Cast</p> 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...
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<p>After a lockdown/reopen period we're back with another argument.</p> <p>WARNING: The recording dropped out half way thru, and… creative edits were made. Your ears have been warned.</p> Java 15 Ramp Down Second...
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<p>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.</p> <p>During the last episode, I'd had...
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<p>Welcome to the "Locked Down Dependencies" remote recorded using Squadcast.fm whilst both Greg and I are stuck in a national COVID-19 lockdown.</p> <p>Full links to topics discussed can be found in the shared bookmark...
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<p>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.</p> <p>This week (ha) Greg and I...
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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...
Episode #162
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...
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<p>00:00:00: Intro</p> <p>00:01:25: Java 12 Is Upon Us</p> 39 New Features (and APIs) in JDK 12 Mapping With Switch Expressions <p>00:12:31: Supporting Multiple JVM Versions In Libraries</p> Apache Maven Compiler...
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