Foojay Podcast #60: Proud Of Belgium - Devoxx, JobRunr, Timefold, OpenJDK Mobile, OpenJFX, Thymeleaf, htmx,...
Belgium might be tiny, but we have a strong Java Community!
As I was doing interviews at Devoxx in October, I met several of these people, and we talked about their projects, how you can get involved in OpenJDK, and maybe even start a company out of it.
This podcast will teach you more about Devoxx, VoxxedDays, Devoxx4Kids, JobRunr, Timefold, OpenJDK Mobile, OpenJFX, Thymelead, htmx, and more!
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Guests
Stephan Janssen
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanjanssen/
- https://x.com/Stephan007
- https://www.devoxx.com
- https://events.voxxeddays.com
- https://www.devoxx4kids.org/
Ronald Dehuysser
Geoffrey De Smet
Johan Vos
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanvos/
- https://mastodon.social/@johanvos
- https://x.com/johanvos
- https://gluonhq.com/
- https://github.com/openjdk/mobile
- https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/
Wim Deblauwe
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/wimdeblauwe/
- https://x.com/wimdeblauwe
- https://www.wimdeblauwe.com/books/modern-frontends-with-htmx/
- https://www.wimdeblauwe.com/books/taming-thymeleaf/
- https://www.wimdeblauwe.com/projects/
Content
00:00 Introduction
00:47 Stephan Janssen about how Devoxx started
02:22 Difference between Devoxx and VoxxedDays
03:47 About Devoxx4Kids
04:22 Sponsors are needed to keep the entrance fee low
06:26 About the speakers and CFPs
07:11 Important Belgian Java people and tools
09:08 Ronald Dehuysser about JobRunr
10:00 How to turn an open-source project into a company
11:09 Reviewing and validating the evolutions in Java
12:35 Importance of conferences
13:23 How government support can help a startup
14:02 Challenge of starting a company…
14:40 Geoffrey De Smet about Timefold and the challenges in scheduling
16:47 How AI helps to find the best schedule
18:34 How it started as an open-source project (Optoplanner)
19:06 The challenges of growing Timefold as a company
21:26 Visiting conferences as a “yearly training”
22:36 Johan Vos about OpenJFX and how he got involved
24:49 Everyone can contribute to OpenJDK and OpenJFX
25:50 The goal of the OpenJDK Mobile project
29:33 About the Belgian Java community
30:29 Wim Deblauwe about Spring libraries and books
30:50 About Wim’s Thymeleaf and htmx books
32:08 How to get involved in the Java community
33:06 Goal of writing a book
33:40 Wim’s involvement in the community
35:08 Outro
Frank Delporte
Frank Delporte is a Java Champion, Java Developer, Senior Technical Writer at Azul, Blogger, Author of "Java Programming for Raspberry Pi - A Hands-On Guide to Electronics and IoT Projects", and Open-Source Contributor for Pi4J, Lottie4J, MelodyMatrix,... …
Geoffrey De Smet
Timefold CTO, OptaPlanner creator, Java coder, open source contributor, speaker, Artificial Intelligence expert in constraint solvers and mathematical optimization.
Ronald Dehuysser
Meet Ronald Dehuysser, a software architect from Belgium and creator of JobRunr. Seamlessly integrating with Spring Boot, Micronaut, and Quarkus, JobRunr is an easy solution for efficient distributed background job processing and scheduling. When he's not …
Wim Deblauwe
Wim Deblauwe is a freelance Java Developer, blogger, open-source enthusiast and author of “Taming Thymeleaf”, a book on working with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf.