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Swampcast is a Podcast from the Swamp
Did you know Swampcast has interviews with Jonathan Schwartz, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, Brion Vibber, former CTO of Wikipedia, Pandora's CEO and CTO and more? Here's the story of Swampcast:
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/01/25/java-podcasters.html?...
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Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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