In this episode I give some initial impressions of SpringOne 2GX.   I spoke with Derek Collison and Dave McCrory of VMWare about CloudFoundry and learned about the platform and the strategy.   VMware is doing something very, very interesting, they are licensing CloudFoundry under an Apache License and trying to establish and open source standard "reference" for cloud services.   They are already working with partners to build out an open source ecosystem, and if will be interesting to see what develops from this effort.

Other than that I interviewed about 7-8 people, and you'll have to listen to the episode to hear by initial feedback.

Also, special thanks to Jay Zimmerman, organizer of NFJS conferences for lending me an interview room.    If you are a Java programmer and you are looking for a good conference, check out http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com - Jay's conferences set the standard for programming conferences, they are local and he's got a great collection of speakers that following him around.

Some weeks are better than others, and this week is certainly a little "bleh".  Maybe it shows in this abbreviated podcast?   While this week seems a little boring, next week promises to be more interesting.  I promise.

Links from this week:

• http://www.grails.org
• http://www.gradle.org
• http://www.neo4j.org

This week's installment of the Discursive podcast talks about the following topics:

• Kevin Bourillion's controversial Google+ post about Guava - Basically Kevin told the world that the Guava project almost never looks at submitted patches.  A bunch of people have used this as an opportunity to suggest that this isn't a real open source project.  What do you think?
• Jason van Zyl finally whipped the covers off of Tesla.   If you've been watching Maven, you've probably noticed his absence for a few months, well he's been busy working on some extensions to Maven that he's calling Tesla.   There's not a lot of detail about what is in Tesla, but I try to provide a point to the GitHub project and three high-level feature description.
• I end with a pointer to two O'Reilly Radar interviews I conducted at JavaOne: the first with Duncan Mills of the Hudson project and the second with Andrew Bayer.

That's it for this week.   If anyone has any feedback, fire away.   Send an email to tobrien@discursive.com.

Hello world.  This is the first episode of the Discursive podcast, a podcast about developers, open source, and other related topics.  This episode focuses on the state of Java, what's going on with Java, and what are some of the perceived and real challenges facing the platform.   I give an overview of the JavaOne 2011 conference and I also talk about my interview with Bob Lee.

Interview with Bob Lee for O'Reilly: http://www.discursive.com/blog/4656