Thrilled to be back to talk about the Well Grounded Java Developer 2nd Ed starting November 15th!

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi all,

I spent many of my formative years here as Bartender helping out and learning from this great Java developer community :-).  Ben Evans and Jason Clark take 99.99% of the credit for this 2nd edition but were gracious enough to invite me along for the ride as I helped Ben write the first one.  Can't wait to chat to you all about it!

[Ron McLeod]

Welcome back Martijn  

I just bought the e-book version last night.  I've only gone through the first chapter and I'm really enjoying what I have read so far.  I'm looking forward getting further in to the book and seeing the discussions about it in couple of weeks from now.

[Tim Cooke]

Welcome back Martijn, it's nice to "see" you. Once a Bartender always a Bartender remember, so drop in any time you like.

Fun fact: Campbell Richie and I met you once at Devoxx London 2015. At that time I was mere days away from becoming a Bartender myself although I didn't know it. Campbell knew it, but I didn't.

[Campbell Ritchie]

It was the year before that, 2014. Yes, I remember that occasion very fondly I learnt a lot at that conference, including how to use Streams and the other “new” Java8+ features.
And I know how to keep my mouth shut (well most of the time)

I was thinking I would like to win that book; when I saw it was you who wrote it, that made the book more attractive still.

[Tim Cooke]

Campbell Ritchie wrote:It was the year before that, 2014.

You are right, it was 2014. I have a photo of the three of us at that conference.

I also remember it being a good event, and I also bumped into another past Bartender Simon Brown, the creator of the C4 model.