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Developer, Advocate!

You're reading from Developer, Advocate! Conversations on turning a passion for talking about tech into a career

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789138740

Length 782 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Soft Skills

Author (1):

Geertjan Wielenga

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Table of Contents (36) Chapters

1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER

2. Scott Davis

3. Ted Neward

4. Sally Eaves

5. Kirk Pepperdine

6. Rabea Gransberger

7. Laurence Moroney

8. Scott Hanselman

9. Heather VanCura

10. Matt Raible

11. Tracy Lee

12. Simon Ritter

13. Mark Heckler

14. Jennifer Reif

15. Venkat Subramaniam

16. Ivar Grimstad

17. Regine Gilbert

18. Tim Berglund

19. Ray Tsang

20. Tori Wieldt

21. Andres Almiray

22. Arun Gupta

23. Josh Long

24. Trisha Gee

25. Bilal Kathrada

26. Baruch Sadogursky

27. Mary Thengvall

28. Yakov Fain

29. Patrick McFadin

30. Reza Rahman

31. Adam Bien

32. Bruno Borges

33. Jono Bacon

34. Other Books You May Enjoy

35. Index

36. Packt

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Authors (1)

Geertjan Wielenga

Geertjan Wielenga

Geertjan Wielenga is a developer advocate who promotes Java and JavaScript as a speaker, writer, and trainer. He graduated from the University of KwaZulu-Natal with a degree in social science and a postgraduate degree in law. Geertjan has worked in Austria, the Czech Republic, and the Netherlands for firms including Sun Microsystems and Oracle. Now a senior principal product manager at Oracle, he advocates the open-source projects Apache NetBeans and Oracle JET.

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