Foojay Podcast #72: JCon Report, Part 1 – Grow your career, public speaking, 30 years of Java, greener coding,…
- June 02, 2025
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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.
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00:00 Introduction
00:37 Richard Fichtner: About JCON
03:27 Bruno Souza: Building your career
17:09 Markus Westergren: Mentoring and growing to become a senior engineer
21:56 Brian Vermeer: Public speaking, NLJUG, the importance of writing
30:08 Aicha Laafia: Green coding
36:33 Baruch Sadogursky: History of Java, job changes because of AI
44:40 Dmitry Yanter: Connections in open-source projects
53:12 Conclusion
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Java Champions & Developer Advocate and Software Engineer for Snyk. Passionate about Java, (Pure) Functional Programming, and Cybersecurity. Co-leading the Virtual JUG, NLJUG and DevSecCon community. Brian is also an Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador and regular international speaker on mostly Java-related conferences.
Frank Delporte is a Java Champion, Java Developer, Technical Writer at Azul, Blogger, Author of "Getting started with Java on Raspberry Pi", and Pi4J Contributor. Frank blogs about his experiments with Java and JavaFX, sometimes combined with electronic components, on the Raspberry Pi.
Developer Relations and DPE Advocacy at Gradle
I help professional Java developers like you to write maintainable code so that you can become a sought-after expert in the software development industry.
Richard Fichtner is the Principal Software Architect at XDEV Software GmbH, with over 20 years of experience in the software industry. He works at the intersection of business and technology, contributing to the open-source community through projects like RapidClipse (https://www.rapidclipse.com) and advocating for best practices in Apache Maven. Richard is passionate about sharing knowledge on Java technologies, making him a frequent conference speaker. He leads the Java User Group Oberpfalz, co-organizes the JCON conferences (https://jcon.one), and has been recognized as a Java Champion, Oracle ACE Pro, IBM Champion and Vaadin Champion. With a Master of Science in Applied Computer Science, his expertise spans Java, clean code, cloud technologies, and pragmatic development practices, focusing on improving developer productivity through cloud solutions. Richard enjoys relaxing by a campfire and listening to/playing country music in his spare time.
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