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Foojay Podcast published in November 2024  All info, show notes, and links: https://foojay.io/today/category/podcast/  At Devoxx and JFall, we talked with Georgios Diamantopoulos, Lutske de Leeuw, Tom Cools, Jessica Siewert, and Rijo Sam about staying physically and mentally healthy as software developers. There are many topics to handle, like the impact of AI on how valuable we feel, how COVID-19 impacted careers, how we work in and with remote teams, how to get to know new colleagues and much more. Yes, there is even a sidestep where we compared the Java and .NET communities.Guests   Georgios Diamantopoulos       https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgiosd/        https://x.com/georgiosd      Tom Cools       https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-cools-17547548/         https://bsky.app/profile/tcoolsit.bsky.social      Lutske de Leeuw       https://www.linkedin.com/in/lutske/     Jessica Siewert       https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesiewert/      Rijo Sam       https://www.linkedin.com/in/rijosam19/        https://github.com/Rijosam   Content00:00 Introduction of topic and guests00:48 Georgios Diamantopoulos about the impact of your work on your body05:22 Comparing Java to .NET community06:54 Lutske de Leeuw about the impact of AI on our job09:13 Impact of Covid and working from home10:48 Talk with your colleagues about mental issues12:06 Tom Cools about switching jobs13:00 About the danger of a burnout, dealing with stress, and trying too much at the same time17:08 How to deal with Impostor Syndrom20:31 Jessica Siewert about dealing with conflicts within a team22:50 How to get in contact with new people24:58 Rijo Sam about working in and with remote teams26:34 Schedule "coffee moments"!30:54 Impact of time zone differences33:02 Misunderstanding each other because of cultural differences34:44 The danger of text chat versus having a voice chat37:04 Avoid team burnout!37:43 Conclusion

Belgium might be tiny, but we have a strong Java Community! As I was doing interviews at Devoxx in October, I met several of these people, and we talked about their projects, how you can get involved in OpenJDK, and maybe even start a company out of it. This podcast will teach you more about Devoxx, VoxxedDays, Devoxx4Kids, JobRunr, Timefold, OpenJDK Mobile, OpenJFX, Thymelead, htmx, and more!Guests   Stephan Janssen       https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanjanssen/        https://x.com/Stephan007      https://www.devoxx.com      https://events.voxxeddays.com      https://www.devoxx4kids.org/   Ronald Dehuysser      https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronalddehuysser/      https://x.com/rdehuyss      https://www.jobrunr.io/en/   Geoffrey De Smet       https://www.linkedin.com/in/ge0ffrey/      https://x.com/GeoffreyDeSmet      https://timefold.ai/   Johan Vos      https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanvos/      https://mastodon.social/@johanvos      https://x.com/johanvos      https://gluonhq.com/      https://github.com/openjdk/mobile      https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/   Wim Deblauwe       https://www.linkedin.com/in/wimdeblauwe/      https://x.com/wimdeblauwe      https://www.wimdeblauwe.com/books/modern-frontends-with-htmx/      https://www.wimdeblauwe.com/books/taming-thymeleaf/      https://www.wimdeblauwe.com/projects/Content00:00 Introduction00:47 Stephan Janssen about how Devoxx started02:22 Difference between Devoxx and VoxxedDays03:47 About Devoxx4Kids04:22 Sponsors are needed to keep the entrance fee low06:26 About the speakers and CFPs07:11 Important Belgian Java people and tools09:08 Ronald Dehuysser about JobRunr10:00 How to turn an open-source project into a company11:09 Reviewing and validating the evolutions in Java12:35 Importance of conferences13:23 How government support can help a startup14:02 Challenge of starting a company...14:40 Geoffrey De Smet about Timefold and the challenges in scheduling16:47 How AI helps to find the best schedule18:34 How it started as an open-source project (Optoplanner)19:06 The challenges of growing Timefold as a company21:26 Visiting conferences as a "yearly training"22:36 Johan Vos about OpenJFX and how he got involved24:49 Everyone can contribute to OpenJDK and OpenJFX25:50 The goal of the OpenJDK Mobile project29:33 About the Belgian Java community30:29 Wim Deblauwe about Spring libraries and books30:50 About Wim's Thymeleaf and htmx books32:08 How to get involved in the Java community33:06 Goal of writing a book33:40 Wim's involvement in the community35:08 Outro

What do people who have Developer Relations as their job description do? And how do you become a conference speaker? You'll learn in this Foojay podcast! At Devoxx in Belgium, I got to talk to Josh Long, Baruch, Pratik Patel, and Roni Dover, who are on the stage because it's part of their job. They share many tips about being a DevRel and the plenty tasks involved in such a job. I also talked with Clo Willaerts who was my inspiration many years ago to become a speaker myself, when I saw her presentation at a marketing conference. GuestsClo Willaertshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/clowillaerts/ https://x.com/bnox https://clowillaerts.com/ https://clowillaerts.substack.com/   Josh Longhttps://x.com/starbuxman https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshlong/   Baruch Sadogurskyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jbaruch/ https://x.com/jbaruch   Pratik Patelhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/prpatel/ https://x.com/prpatel  Roni Doverhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ronidover/ https://x.com/doppleware   Content00:57 Clo about the difference between marketing and technical conferences 02:49 Impact of ecological cost on our work 04:56 Fast changes in trending topics  07:33 How to get paid as a (keynote) speaker 12:53 Josh about being Developer Relation 14:53 How to reach the energy level of Josh 15:42 Do you have to be an expert about a topic to talk about it? 18:34 How to create a story for a new talk 19:02 Only use slides when really needed 22:29 How hard is live coding? 23:48 Baruch about the DevRel role 24:52 How to move from Dev to DevRel 25:44 The focus of Baruch 27:57 Pratik about the role of a dev team at a conference 29:50 How DevRel influences product development in their company 31:36 How Pratik became a DevRel 32:40 Good and bad of being a DevRel 34:38 Roni about the role of a DevRel 35:54 Importance of using your product (coding) as a DevRel 37:35 Back side of the job  38:43 Tip 1: Ask to be a speaker  39:31 Tip 2: Stand out! 41:01 Tip 3: The show must go on! 42:31 More tips...  48:08 One final tip from Josh 48:16 Outro Book by Geertjan Wielenga: "Developer, Advocate!"

Three years after Log4Shell caused a significant security issue, we still struggle with insecure dependencies and injection problems. In this podcast, we'll discuss how developers can secure their code. I talked with three authors who posted a security and code quality post on Foojay.io.Guests     Jonathan Vila          https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanvila/          https://about.me/jonathan.vila          https://twitter.com/jonathan_vila      Brian Vermeer         https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianvermeer/          https://brianvermeer.nl/          https://twitter.com/BrianVerm      Erik Costlow          https://www.linkedin.com/in/costlow/           https://twitter.com/costlow   Content00:00 Introduction of topic and guests 01:35 Brian: Why is Log4Shell still around?    https://foojay.io/today/the-persistent-threat-why-major-vulnerabilities-like-log4shell-and-spring4shell-remain-significant/   03:24 Outdated dependencies are still used a lot 04:31 Who is responsible for dependency updates? 07:55 Snyk tools to help discover issues 10:15 Comparing to Dependabot 11:21 How to keep dependencies up-to-date 14:32 Responsibility to use dependencies with care 17:17 Looking forward to the JFall conference  18:48 About Foojay  19:49 Jonathan: Is SQL injection still a problem?    https://foojay.io/today/top-security-flaws-hiding-in-your-code-right-now-and-how-to-fix-them/  24:50 Deserialization injection 27:30 Logging injection 31:22 Even experienced developers make mistakes 33:17 About Sonar tools 35:53 Other articles by Jonathan    https://foojay.io/today/author/jonathan-vila/     https://foojay.io/today/ensuring-the-right-usage-of-java-21-new-features/ 38:20 Other security tools    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wVCYj8oQUY 39:47 Erik: Trash Pandas are attracted by unused code    https://foojay.io/today/trash-pandas-love-enterprise-java-garbage-code/   43:01 How bad are insecure but unused libraries? 45:16 Problem of code only used by unit tests 47:15 Testing in different layers (develop, test, production) 49:31 How much code is not used in production? 50:31 How code becomes unused    https://foojay.io/today/foojay-podcast-57/ 54:29 Conclusions