Shownotes for Episode

009 - Interview with Josh Bloch of Google

Josh Bloch is a well known Java visionary and speaker. In addition to his numerous contributions to the JDK, which include the Java util collections library, he has served on a number of JSRs such as 166 (Concurrency Utilities), 175 (Metadata, or annotations) and 201 (Enumerations, Autoboxing, the new for loops and static importing). Josh has also written two books on Java: "Effective Java" (which won a jolt award), and "Java Puzzlers" (the latter with Neal Gafter). He currently works for Google having moved there from Sun after the release of Java 5.

Please Note: We know the audio quality of this episode is perhaps not the best, but the quality of the content more than makes up for it. Sometimes you are simply limited by what Skype can do. Everything is audible, and the volume is as even as we could make it.

• Josh's 2005 Javapolis page -

http://wiki.javapolis.com/confluence/display/JP05/Joshua+Bloch?decorator=printable * And his 2004 page -

http://www.javapolis.com/confluence/display/JP04/Joshua+Bloch * The books: + Effective Java - Buy it at Amazon.com -

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201310058/002-1259982-2482438?

v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance + Java Puzzlers (with Neal Gafter) - Buy it at Amazon.com -

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/032133678X/002-1259982-2482438?

v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance

• The JSRs:
• JSR 166 - Concurrency Utilities - http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=166
• JSR 175 - A Metadata Facility for the Java Programming Language -

http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=175 + JSR 201 - Extending the Java Programming Language with Enumerations, Autoboxing, Enhanced for loops and Static Import -

http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=201

• FindBugs - for static analysis of java code - http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
• Thanks to:
• Libsyn.com for hosting and bandwidth - http://www.libsyn.com
• Feedburner.com for feed redirect - http://www.feedburner.com

• Kirsty Doherty for artwork

• Theme Music:

• Start - Theme from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
• End - Dawgy Mountain Breakdown (the Car Talk music) by The New England Bluegrass Band -

http://www.songbaby.com/cd/tnebb?cdbaby=4326237c564766b12b8eb1272353058b