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Developer Career Masterplan

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Published in Sep 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801818704
Pages 310 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Heather VanCura Heather VanCura
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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.
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Bruno Souza Bruno Souza
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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.
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters close

Preface 1. Part 1 The Basics: Learn and Practice the Technical Skills
2. Chapter 1: The Secret to Learning about Technology Quickly and Continuously 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 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building trust and getting accepted

One of the biggest mistakes developers make in trying to participate in open source projects is thinking that an open source project is just there for the taking. Developers may think that just because the source code is available, anyone can just come in and do whatever they want with it. That could not be further from the truth.

An active open source project is developed by a community of people that are very passionate about their code. You could imagine that their project is their little baby. They take care of and protect it. Although open source developers are particularly open and accepting, they need to trust you before you can actually contribute anything.

Imagine if it was one of your projects and a random person that you have never seen before just comes in, makes decisions, changes your project direction, or tells you what you should be doing next. You would probably not be very happy. You would need them to start slowly, make a...

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Profile icon Heather VanCura
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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.
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Profile icon Bruno Souza
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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.
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