Podcast Guests: Mark Stephens, Ernest Duodu, Dorine Flies, Emily Hall, Ken Fogel, John Ceccarelli, Luke Mayell, and Johannes Weigend. Download mp3: 28 minutes – 22 mb Subscribe on iTunes 00:00 / Opening Chat with Mark Stephens from IDR Solutions "The lunatics have taken over the asylum," announces Mark Stephens (@JavaPDF) in the NetBeans podcast opening chat. Mark's team at IDR Solutions and NetBeans community members from EPIK (Encouraging Programming in Kids) have taken over this edition of the NetBeans podcast. During JavaOne 2014 in San Francisco, they interviewed a range of developers who use NetBeans in one way or another, focusing on their coding stories and how they use NetBeans IDE. And, this is the start of many similar podcasts! Do you and your friends or colleagues want to take over a future edition of the NetBeans podcast? Do you have a NetBeans related story to tell? Are you using NetBeans in a novel or unusual way? Write to nbpodcast at netbeans dot org and get involved! 02:47 / Ernest Duodu - Conversation with Dorine Flies, Co-ordinator of EPIK Ernest Duodu from IDR Solutions chats with Dorine Flies (@EPIKhub), who runs EPIK, "Encouraging Programming in Kids", about the fun of programming, teaching kids to program, the relevance of open source, Minecraft, NetBeans as a teaching platform, and how to catch burglars with your RaspberryPi... 12:45 / Emily Hall - Conversation with Ken Fogel, Software Development Teacher in Canada Emily Hall from EPIK chats with Ken Fogel (@omniprof), about how he got into coding (from a "dead end job working in a mailroom") and became a teacher in software development in Canada. "Can you pick up coding later on in life?" is one of the questions Ken deals with. "Anyone is capable of learning to code at any time," he explains. 16:50 / Emily Hall - Conversation with John Ceccarelli, Director of NetBeans Engineering Emily continues her conversational contributions with John Ceccarelli, who leads the NetBeans engineering team. Learn about his background and what he sees as the two big new developments in software over recent years. What does the person overseeing NetBeans development see in his crystal ball for Java, NetBeans, and the software industry? 23:40 / Luke Mayell - Conversation with Johannes Weigend, Software Architect at QAWare, Munich Luke Mayell (@_moonlapse) from EPIK gets to know Johannes Weigend (@JohannesWeigend), asking him how he started to use NetBeans, what he likes about it, and what could be even better! *Have ideas for NetBeans Podcast topics? Send them to ">">">">nbpodcast at netbeans dot org. *Subscribe to the official NetBeans page on Facebook! Check us out as well on Twitter, YouTube, and Google+.