EPISODE · May 31, 2025 · 53 MIN
JCON Report, Part 1 - Grow your career, public speaking, 30 years of Java, greener coding,... (#72)
from Foojay.io, the Friends Of OpenJDK! · host Foojay.io | Java and Programming Community
On May 13th and 14th, Foojay attended the JCON conference in Köln, Germany, where we did over 30 live-stream interviews. In this episode, we present to you the first set of these interviews, in which we focus on celebrating 30 years of Java, how you can grow your career, become a public speaker and writer, make your code more green, a bit of AI (of course...), and how the connections between open-source contributors can be visualized.00:00 Introduction00:37 Richard Fichtner: About JCON https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardfichtner/ https://jcon.one/ 03:27 Bruno Souza: Building your career https://www.linkedin.com/in/brjavaman/ https://careermasterplan.dev 17:09 Markus Westergren: Mentoring and growing to become a senior engineer https://www.linkedin.com/in/markuswestergren/ 21:56 Brian Vermeer: Public speaking, NLJUG, the importance of writing https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianvermeer/ 30:08 Aicha Laafia: Green coding https://www.linkedin.com/in/aicha-laafia-0266a6126/ 36:33 Baruch Sadogursky: History of Java, job changes because of AI https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbaruch/ 44:40 Dmitry Yanter: Connections in open-source projects https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitry-yanter/ 53:43 Conclusion
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On May 13th and 14th, Foojay attended the JCON conference in Köln, Germany, where we did over 30 live-stream interviews. In this episode, we present to you the first set of these interviews, in which we focus on celebrating 30 years of Java, how you can grow your career, become a public speaker and writer, make your code more green, a bit of AI (of course...), and how the connections between open-source contributors can be visualized.00:00 Introduction00:37 Richard Fichtner: About JCON https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardfichtner/ https://jcon.one/ 03:27 Bruno Souza: Building your career https://www.linkedin.com/in/brjavaman/ https://careermasterplan.dev 17:09 Markus Westergren: Mentoring and growing to become a senior engineer https://www.linkedin.com/in/markuswestergren/ 21:56 Brian Vermeer: Public speaking, NLJUG, the importance of writing https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianvermeer/ 30:08 Aicha Laafia: Green coding https://www.linkedin.com/in/aicha-laafia-0266a6126/ 36:33 Baruch Sadogursky: History of Java, job changes because of AI https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbaruch/ 44:40 Dmitry Yanter: Connections in open-source projects https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitry-yanter/ 53:43 Conclusion
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