Java & Diversity In Tech | Trisha Gee In The Engineering Room Ep. 2
386Welcome to "The Engineering Room", a series of wide-ranging conversations with thought-leaders from the software engineering industry. This is a new mini-series of additional content on the Continuous Delivery Channel.
In this episode, Dave Farley chats with Trisha Gee ( ➡️ https://trishagee.com). Trisha is a Developer Advocate and Java Champion. In this conversation Dave and Trish explore a wide range of topics, mostly centred on aspects of career development and growth. They look at the value of user communities and groups, keeping current with tools and technologies, sculpting code through refactoring, and explore the perspective of women, and other under-represented groups, in software development.
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VIDEO CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro to Trisha Gee
02:06 What’s a Developer Advocate and How do we Level-Up?
07:06 SW as a Creative Act; The Importance of Teamwork & Communication
10:00 Experts at Learning: Work as a Series of Experiments - Some Will Fail!
12:51 Benefits of Java (and Other) User Groups
13:47 A Great Way to Find Great Jobs
15:08 Working at, and Interviewing for, LMAX
17:30 Connecting with Other Devs to Broaden Experience
19:26 What should Juniors focus on?
24:40 No one knows everything, “You don’t know what you are doing half the time and things go wrong”.
26:05 Pair Programming, Teaching and Learning
28:54 Lambdas and Streams in Headfirst Java
30:07 IntelliJ and the role of tools
35:19 Blown away by “rename refactor”
37:07 Sculpting code & Everyday Refactoring
39:21 Staying up to date - Keeping Your Finger on the Pulse
46:41 Under-appreciated features of Java
48:26 Women in Computing: Representation, Mentorship and Sponsorship.
58:57 Caution with Social Media
1:07:56 Advice for Women (and Others) in Software