Explore Products

Best Sellers

New Releases

Books

Videos

Audiobooks

Free Learning

Developer Career Masterplan

You're reading from Developer Career Masterplan Build your path to senior level and beyond with practical insights from industry experts

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801818704

Length 310 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (2):

Bruno Souza

Heather VanCura

View More author details

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 The Basics: Learn and Practice the Technical Skills

2. Chapter 1: The Secret to Learning about Technology Quickly and Continuously FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Choose Your Best Path for Learning, Training, and Certifications

4. Chapter 3: Optimize Your Support Network for Growth

5. Chapter 4: Acquire the Right Skills Deliberately

6. Chapter 5: Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone

7. Part 2 Get Involved: Participate in the Community

8. Chapter 6: Become a Team Player by Embracing Communities

9. Chapter 7: Focus Your Growth by Giving and Receiving Mentoring

10. Chapter 8: Be Part of a Larger Group – Meeting People at User Groups and Meetups

11. Chapter 9: Grow Your Network through Social Media

12. Chapter 10: Build Lasting Relationships

13. Part 3 Create Impact: Share and Lead

14. Chapter 11: Build Trust and Solve Problems with Open Source Projects

15. Chapter 12: Scaling Trust through Public Engagement: Speaking and Blogs

16. Chapter 13: Be a Leader: Manage Up, Down, and Across Your Organization

17. Chapter 14: Stepping Up Your Technology Game – Defining Technology Instead of Merely Using It

18. Chapter 15: Build Your Personal Brand and Become a Trusted Advisor

19. Index

Why subscribe?

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Build Trust and Solve Problems with Open Source Projects

The deepest level of trust you can have with other developers is by working together on a project. Open source projects allow you to meet and work with amazing developers and build deep, meaningful relationships that take trust to a new level. This chapter will show you how to do that.

In this chapter, we will cover the following main topics:

The value of contributing to open source
Selecting an open source project
Building trust and getting accepted
Making open source a core part of your evolution
Bringing value to your company and customers

The rest of the chapter is locked

Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!

A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.

Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days

Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of

Start free trial

Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime

Authors (2)

VanCura

VanCura

Heather VanCura is a Senior Director at Oracle in the Standards Strategy & Architecture team. She is the Director and Chairperson of the Java Community Process (JCP) program. In this role she leads the organization and chairs the JCP Executive Committee, composed of top global enterprises in the world. She serves as an international speaker, and an organizer of developer events around the world, engaging with open source groups and user groups. She regularly mentors developers at all career levels, leads coding workshops that extend into local communities to inspire young developers from diverse backgrounds, and delivers keynote presentations on these topics, including her signature series: How to Ally for Diversity & Women in Tech. Heather has worked with developers and technology executives for the past twenty years at Oracle, Sun Microsystems and at SCO Unix. She has served on the boards of Dress for Success and FIRST LEGO League NorCal, and regularly volunteers with organizations such as Andela, Rippleworks, Women Who Code, IEEE Women in Engineering, Anita Borg, and Professional BusinessWomen of California.

See other products by VanCura

Souza

Souza

Bruno Souza is a Java Developer and Open Source Evangelist. As founder and coordinator of SouJava (Sociedade de Usuários da Tecnologia Java; Java Technology Users Society) and leader of the Worldwide Java User Groups Community at Java.net, Bruno helped in the creation and organization of hundreds of JUGs worldwide. A Java Developer since the earliest days of the technology, Bruno took part in some of the largest Java projects in Brazil. Bruno is a Principal Consultant at Summa Technologies and has extensive experience in large projects in the Government, finance and service industries. A Cloud Expert at ToolsCloud, he promotes and develops cloud-based systems using Java. Nurturing developer communities is a personal passion, and Bruno worked actively with Java open source communities and projects. Bruno Souza is an Honorary Director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), President of the innovation-focused Campus Party Institute, and Coordinator of Nuvem, the Cloud Computing Lab of LSI/USP. When not in front of a computer, Bruno enjoys time with his family in a little hideout near Sâo Paulo. An amateur in many things - photographer, puppeteer, father - he strives to excel in some of them.

See other products by Souza

Personalised recommendations for you

Based on your interests and search pattern

Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

This book empowers you with in-depth knowledge of microservices architecture using .NET and Azure. Through hands-on tutorials, you'll be able to build, deploy, and manage scalable applications, gaining crucial skills for modern software development.

May 2024 16h 56m

Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

This book empowers you with in-depth knowledge of microservices architecture using .NET and Azure. Through hands-on tutorials, you'll be able to build, deploy, and manage scalable applications, gaining crucial skills for modern software development.

May 2024 16h 56m

Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

This book empowers you with in-depth knowledge of microservices architecture using .NET and Azure. Through hands-on tutorials, you'll be able to build, deploy, and manage scalable applications, gaining crucial skills for modern software development.

May 2024 16h 56m

Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

This book empowers you with in-depth knowledge of microservices architecture using .NET and Azure. Through hands-on tutorials, you'll be able to build, deploy, and manage scalable applications, gaining crucial skills for modern software development.

May 2024 16h 56m

Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

This book empowers you with in-depth knowledge of microservices architecture using .NET and Azure. Through hands-on tutorials, you'll be able to build, deploy, and manage scalable applications, gaining crucial skills for modern software development.

May 2024 16h 56m

Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

This book empowers you with in-depth knowledge of microservices architecture using .NET and Azure. Through hands-on tutorials, you'll be able to build, deploy, and manage scalable applications, gaining crucial skills for modern software development.

May 2024 16h 56m

Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

This book empowers you with in-depth knowledge of microservices architecture using .NET and Azure. Through hands-on tutorials, you'll be able to build, deploy, and manage scalable applications, gaining crucial skills for modern software development.

May 2024 16h 56m

Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

This book empowers you with in-depth knowledge of microservices architecture using .NET and Azure. Through hands-on tutorials, you'll be able to build, deploy, and manage scalable applications, gaining crucial skills for modern software development.

May 2024 16h 56m

Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

This book empowers you with in-depth knowledge of microservices architecture using .NET and Azure. Through hands-on tutorials, you'll be able to build, deploy, and manage scalable applications, gaining crucial skills for modern software development.

May 2024 16h 56m

Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

This book empowers you with in-depth knowledge of microservices architecture using .NET and Azure. Through hands-on tutorials, you'll be able to build, deploy, and manage scalable applications, gaining crucial skills for modern software development.

May 2024 16h 56m

Mastering Python Design Patterns

Mastering Python Design Patterns

Unlock the power of design patterns to build maintainable and scalable software and applications using Python. Authored by Python veterans, this book is your guide to mastering design patterns in Python.

May 2024 9h 52m

Mastering Python Design Patterns

Mastering Python Design Patterns

Unlock the power of design patterns to build maintainable and scalable software and applications using Python. Authored by Python veterans, this book is your guide to mastering design patterns in Python.

May 2024 9h 52m