Stackd 53. An interview with Richard Fichtner

The Stackd Podcast

Recorded Date 10/23/2021

Title: In this episode, Kito, Ian, Danno and Josh welcome special guest Richard Fichtner, Founder JUG Oberpfalz, CEO of XDev, and one of the organizers of JCON. They discuss #lowcode, running a conference, being CEO, #microstream, #jooq, the future of the #playframework, #rapidclipse, XDEV IDE, #tabnine AI IDE plugin, #jreleaser, #testcontainers, and much more.

Richard / XDEV

XDEV Software https://xdev.software/en/

XAPI - XDEV IDE Framework https://github.com/xdev-software/xapi

RapidClipse https://rapidclipse.com/en

Server Side Java

Payara Cloud now Available https://www.payara.fish/products/payara-cloud/

Microstream https://microstream.one/

Open source announcement https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/09/microstream-5-is-open-source/

jOOQ: The easiest way to write SQL in Java https://www.jooq.org/

Web

On the future of Play Framework https://www.lightbend.com/blog/on-the-future-of-play-framework

IE11 Countdown Clock https://death-to-ie11.com/

Java Web Start is dead. Long live OpenWebStart! - openwebstart.com https://openwebstart.com/

Developer Tools

Github Copilot https://copilot.github.com/

Tabnine - AI plugin https://www.tabnine.com/

Picks

JReleaser https://jreleaser.org/

Free Guy (Movie) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6264654/

TestContainers http://testcontainers.org

Book: Procrastinate on Purpose https://www.amazon.com/Procrastinate-on-Purpose-audiobook/dp/B00RV58ZFO/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwwsmLBhACEiwANq-tXOE3sB0aAh-2reeOQLzwXxJ52sDFhz9DlcXwJG_ADcWJvXrKCRjmWRoChJcQAvD_BwE&hvadid=241897656186&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=1027142&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=12176312028861189251&hvtargid=kwd-76000619146&hydadcr=22564_10346437&keywords=procrastinate+on+purpose&qid=1634933460&sr=8-1

AdoptOpenJDK is now Eclipse Tamarin https://blog.adoptopenjdk.net/2021/08/goodbye-adoptopenjdk-hello-adoptium/

Events

W-JAX Nov 8 – 12, 2021, Munich, Germany or virtual https://jax.de/munich/

JakartaOne LiveStream 2021 - Dec 7th, 2021 in US https://jakartaone.org/

Progressive Web Experience Dec 5-8, 2021, Clearwater, FL, USA or virtual https://progressivewebexperience.io/

Jconf.dev Dec 8-10, 2021, Chicago, IL, USA https://2021.jconf.dev/

Archconf Dec 13-16, Clearwater, FL, USA or virtual https://archconf.com/

CodeMash Jan 11-14, 2022 - Sandusky, OH https://www.codemash.org/

Software Design and Development - May 16-20, 2022 - London, UK https://sddconf.com/