Trisha Gee

Spring Then & Now: What’s Next? • Rod Johnson, Arjen Poutsma & Trisha Gee

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:00:00 GMT

This conversation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.
https://gotocph.com

Rod Johnson - Building the future of agent frameworks at Embabel
Arjen Poutsma - Practical Insights from a Spring Framework Veteran
Trisha Gee - Award-winning Engineer, Author and PC Member

RESOURCES
Rod
https://twitter.com/springrod
https://github.com/johnsonr
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnsonroda
https://the-composition.com/@springrod

Arjen
https://bsky.app/profile/poutsma.bsky.social
https://fosstodon.org/@poutsma
https://github.com/poutsma
https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjen-poutsma-288ba6

Trisha
https://bsky.app/profile/trishagee.bsky.social
https://twitter.com/trisha_gee
https://github.com/trishagee
https://www.linkedin.com/in/trishagee
https://trishagee.com

ABSTRACT
Ask me anything.

Read the full abstract here:
https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3927

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Rod Johnson • Expert One-On-One J2Ee Design and Development • https://amzn.to/48oCxAJ
Johnson, Höller, Arendsen, Risbert & Sampaleanu • Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework • https://amzn.to/44J4SRb
Trisha Gee & Helen Scott • Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA • https://amzn.to/3ZBgnGc
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/3kiTwJJ
Trisha Gee, Kathy Sierra & Bert Bates • Head First Java • https://amzn.to/3k59BJ6

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LinkedIn
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Professional Skills for Software Engineers • Charles Humble & Trisha Gee

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMT

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant
Trisha Gee - Lead Developer Evangelist at Gradle, Java Champion & Co-Author of "Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA"

RESOURCES
Charles
https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

Trisha
https://bsky.app/profile/trishagee.bsky.social
https://twitter.com/trisha_gee
https://www.linkedin.com/in/trishagee
https://trishagee.com
https://github.com/trishagee

Links
https://www.conissaunce.com/professional-skills-shortcut.html
https://www.jeanettewinterson.com

DESCRIPTION
Trisha Gee interviews Charles Humble on his project "Professional Skills for Software Engineers", a collection of 14 articles organized into four categories:
• communication
• critical thinking
• documentation
• networking

Charles argues that career success in software engineering oftentimes depends more on non-programming skills than technical ability. Both Charles and Trisha emphasize that these skills are learnable and essential, despite being undervalued in the industry as mere "soft skills".

The conversation covers how intentional communication improves product development, the value of networking and public speaking for career advancement, and ways engineers can generate ideas for content creation while taking ownership of their career development. The interview makes a compelling case that developing these professional skills benefits both individual engineers and the industry as a whole.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Charles Humble • Professional Skills for Software Engineers
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu & Sara Bergman • Building Green Software
Cal Newport • Deep Work
Martin Fowler • UML Distilled
Cathy O'Neil • Weapons of Math Destruction

Trisha Gee: It's all about Relationships and People

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:46:09 GMT

Jim Grisanzio from Java Developer Relations talks with Trisha Gee, an author, a Java Champion, and a Developer Advocate at Gradle. In February 2025 at Jfokus in Stockholm Trisha received the Java Community Lifetime Achievement honor from Sharat Chander from Oracle Java Developer Relations. Trisha has been a Java developer for 25 years, and since 2011 she's been actively blogging, presenting technical sessions at conferences, and evangelizing Java globally. Recently, Trisha has moved from a traditional developer advocate role to more of a facilitator of developer advocacy internally at her company as well as externally. She works with engineering teams, marketing, teams, and sales teams to ensure the voice of the developer resonates throughout the organization and the community. Trisha is always evolving, she's constantly growing.

In this conversation we talk about the JVM, the six month Java release cycle, writing code, the unique features that make Java special as a technology and as a community, Generative AI, design patterns, understanding requirements, asking questions, problem solving, edge cases, documentation, testing, open source, standards, advice for students, and teaching her 9-year old how to code in Java. Trisha is fascinated with the entire development life cycle of software projects and especially the skills developers need now for working with AI.

"It feels like a very personal thing from him … he's such a huge powerhouse in the community. Obviously, he cares about the technology, but he understands that the technology isn't enough. It is about individuals stepping up but not just doing stuff for themselves but doing stuff to enable other people, to empower other people. It's the community that makes it a great place to be, and Shar is such a huge champion of that. He makes you feel really appreciated for making the effort to help others and to be involved in the community."

— Trisha Gee commenting about receiving the Java Community Lifetime Achievement recognition from Sharat Chander at Oracle.

Trisha Gee
https://x.com/trisha_gee
https://linktr.ee/trisha_gee

Duke's Corner Java Podcast
https://dukescorner.libsyn.com
https://jimgrisanzio.wordpress.com/podcasts/
https://jimgrisanzio.wordpress.com/73-trisha-gee-txt/

Jim Grisanzio
https://x.com/jimgris
https://jimgrisanzio.wordpress.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimgris/

Taming Flaky Tests: Trisha Gee on Developer Productivity and Testing Best Practices

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 08:00:00 GMT

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke with Trisha Gee about the challenges and importance of addressing flaky tests, their impact on developer productivity and morale, best practices for testing, and broader concepts of measuring and improving developer productivity. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4iiUC6a Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and experience from industry peers on emerging patterns and technologies: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter Upcoming Events: InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 9-10, 2025) Actionable insights on today’s critical dev priorities. devsummit.infoq.com/conference/boston2025 InfoQ Dev Summit Munich (October 15-16, 2025) Essential insights on critical software development priorities. https://devsummit.infoq.com/conference/munich2025 QCon San Francisco 2025 (November 17-21, 2025) Get practical inspiration and best practices on emerging software trends directly from senior software developers at early adopter companies. https://qconsf.com/ QCon AI NYC 2025 (December 16-17, 2025) https://ai.qconferences.com/ The InfoQ Podcasts: Weekly inspiration to drive innovation and build great teams from senior software leaders. Listen to all our podcasts and read interview transcripts: - The InfoQ Podcast https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/ - Engineering Culture Podcast by InfoQ https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/#engineering_culture - Generally AI: https://www.infoq.com/generally-ai-podcast/ Follow InfoQ: - Mastodon: https://techhub.social/@infoq - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq - Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq Write for InfoQ: Learn and share the changes and innovations in professional software development. - Join a community of experts. - Increase your visibility. - Grow your career. https://www.infoq.com/write-for-infoq

Writing a book. Does it make you rich and famous? (#67)

Sat, 22 Feb 2025 01:00:00 GMT

Let me share a personal story. I started experimenting with Java on a Raspberry Pi about five years ago and blogged a few articles about it. But the more I experimented, the more I wrote down, and eventually, I had written a book… I worked on it for six months in a row, every evening and a lot of weekends. But the moment I received the box with my author copies was an incredible feeling. Holding a paper book with your name is a special moment.

Fast forward to now. The 1000 paper copies are sold out. I have the last 10 copies in case you still want one ;-) But as I self-published the ebook, it's still for sale on Leanpub, and I keep updating it. That's one of the first significant differences between publishing a paper book and an ebook…. As an author, I got about 2 euros per paper book from the publisher, and LeanPub pays 80% royalties. Don't forget that I have to pay taxes on what I earn. So, if you do the math, you'll understand that the book didn't make me rich. But yes, it helped me in my career and was one of the reasons I became a Java Champion. So, we can argue about the "becoming famous".

But that's only my story. I invited several guests to share their knowledge about book writing:

Marián Varga is finishing a book and tells about publishing a book with a publisher.

Wim Deblauwe wrote a few books and has much experience with self-publishing.

Len Epp is the co-founder of Leanpub, so he can tell us a lot about ebooks.

And we start with Trisha Gee, who wrote a lot of books!

Guests
   Trisha Gee
      https://www.linkedin.com/in/trishagee/
      https://jvm.social/@trisha_gee
      https://bsky.app/profile/trishagee.bsky.social
      https://x.com/trisha_gee
   Len Epp
      https://www.linkedin.com/in/lenepp/
      https://bsky.app/profile/lenepp.bsky.social
      https://x.com/lenepp
   Wim Deblauwe
      https://www.linkedin.com/in/wimdeblauwe/
      https://bsky.app/profile/wimdeblauwe.com
      https://www.youtube.com/@WimDeblauwe
      https://www.wimdeblauwe.com/
      https://www.widit.be/
   Marián Varga
      https://www.dastalvi.com/book/
      https://www.linkedin.com/in/mari%C3%A1n-varga-4869a042/
      https://mastodon.social/@mrvarga

Links

   Book by Frank
      https://webtechie.be/books/
      https://leanpub.com/gettingstartedwithjavaontheraspberrypi/
   Books and links by Trisha Gee
      https://trishagee.com/books/
      https://trishagee.com/2022/12/12/tools-and-processes-for-collaborating-on-a-book-remotely/
      https://trishagee.com/2022/12/01/writing-a-book-is-hard/
      https://medium.com/97-things
      https://youtu.be/RzaNJzz5jW8
      https://learning.oreilly.com/search/?q=trisha%20gee&rows=100&language=en&language=es
   Books by Wim Deblauwe
      https://www.infoq.com/minibooks/spring-boot-api-backend-version2/
      https://www.wimdeblauwe.com/books/modern-frontends-with-htmx
      https://www.wimdeblauwe.com/books/taming-thymeleaf/
   Book by Marián Varga
      https://www.dastalvi.com/book/
      https://bsky.app/profile/love2integrate.com
   Leanpub
      https://www.youtube.com/leanpub
      https://twitter.com/leanpub
      https://mastodon.social/@leanpub
      https://www.instagram.com/leanpub
      https://bsky.app/profile/leanpub.bsky.social
   Lulu
      https://www.lulu.com/

Content

00:00 Introduction of the topic and guests

01:53 Books by Trisha Gee
02:24 Trisha's motivation for writing books
04:13 Difference between publisher and self-publishing
09:53 Publishers are looking for authors and course creators
12:55 How long do you work on a book?
17:35 Can we expect a new book by Trisha?
21:00 Automating the writing process

24:50 Len Epp about Leanpub and how it started
27:18 On Leanpub, you can publish a book-in-progress
27:51 Different publishing processes with Leanpub
30:20 You can use LeanPub to generate your book, but you don't need to sell it on Leanpub
32:57 80% of the selling price goes to the author
40:09 How to market your book
45:35 Let an expert handle the payments...

50:55 Books by Wim Deblauwe
51:45 Wim's motivation for writing books
53:15 Earning back the time spent on the writing
54:37 How to sell paper books on Lulu
57:19 Tools used to write a book
58:34 Wim's author-plans for the future
59:42 How the books influenced Wim's career

01:00:02 Marián Varga about the topic of his book
01:03:07 Current status of the book
01:04:03 The book is a teamwork with a publisher
01:07:06 Organizing the work between multiple authors
01:09:17 Time worked on the book
01:10:40 Feedback from the community for the content
01:12:13 What Marián wants to achieve with the book

01:14:38 Conclusion

293: The best ways to deal with flaky tests (with Gradle's Trisha Gee)

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:00:00 GMT

In this episode, we spoke with Trisha Gee, lead developer advocate at Gradle, about flaky tests and the challenges of dealing with them.

Key talking points:

What is a flaky test?
How can they be identified?
How can they be prevented in the future?

Other useful resources on flaky tests:

#94 Build Ops & Developer Productivity With Trisha Gee

Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:27:10 GMT

We chat with Trisha Gee about Test Driven Development (TDD), flaky tests, ops & observability for builds, and developer productivity.

Mentioned TDD Article:

The beautiful theory of TDD and the reality check of practice

Discuss this episode: ⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF

The Future of Source Control and CI/CD (#26)

Fri, 23 Jun 2023 23:00:00 GMT

As developers, we like to automate the boring parts of our job. This automation includes the source control system, build pipelines, and code analysis tools. In recent decades, we have seen evolutions from CVS to Subversion to Git. Is this the endpoint? Did we find the holy grail in version control? Or what evolutions are waiting for us? Let’s find out together with these fantastic guests…

Guests

Trisha Gee (Gradle)

Ixchel Ruiz (JFrog)

Pierre-Étienne Meunier (Pijul)

Podcast

Host: Hanno Embregts

Production: Frank Delporte

Content

00:00 Intro and introduction of the guests and host

04:15 Should we automate as much as possible to be able to focus on developing

06:33 The human factor of developer productivity engineering (DPE)

Free book: gradle.com/developer-productivity-engineering/handbook/

10:23 PEs view on automation and how changes in law books follow the same approach as “code diffs”

17:02 How you can struggle with your version control system

26:33 How Pijul tries to solve these challenges

33:24 Patches versus branches versus trunk-based development and how to switch from branch-approach

foojay.io/today/why-i-prefer-trunk-based-development

44:09 What could be improved to version control systems

conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/

50:16 Why are still so many people using Git

reuters.com/article/us-france-ovh-fire-idUSKBN2B20NU

1:02:02 Looking 10 years into the future

1:13:30 Outro

Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA • Trisha Gee & Helen Scott

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:00:00 GMT

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Trisha Gee - Lead Developer Evangelist at Gradle, Java Champion & Co-Author of "Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA"
Helen Scott - Developer Advocate at JetBrains & Co-Author of "Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA"

BLOG POSTS
helenjoscott.com
trishagee.com

DESCRIPTION
We’re frequently taught to use a text editor when we’re learning to write code so that we understand the fundamentals. However, if we treat our IDE as a text editor, we are doing ourselves a disservice. As professional developers, we no longer need to learn the fundamentals; we need to deliver working applications. We can use the features of an IDE to help us with this.

IntelliJ IDEA is an extremely fully-featured IDE that can help professional developers with almost any task they need to perform, and this can be overwhelming to get to grips with. Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA uses two approaches to help newcomers and experienced users alike:

• Tutorials that walk through writing code and developing applications that show when, why and how to use IntelliJ IDEA features to create working applications.
• A questions-and-answers approach that demonstrates which features can be used to solve the problems that professional developers face.

Seeing how to use IntelliJ IDEA from these different angles not only showcases the most useful features but also teaches multiple approaches for using these features. No matter which technologies you use or how you like to work, reading this book will help you find an approach that enables you to work comfortably and productively with IntelliJ IDEA.

* Book description: © leanpub.com

The interview is based on Trisha's & Helen's co-authored book "Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA"

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Trisha Gee • Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA
Trisha Gee, Kathy Sierra & Bert Bates • Head First Java
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Michael Nygard • Release It! 2nd Edition
Aditya Y. Bhargava • Grokking Algorithms
Ford, Richards, Sadalage & Dehghani • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts

Release It! • Michael Nygard & Trisha Gee

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 10:00:00 GMT

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Michael Nygard - Innovative technology leader & Author of "Release It!"
Trisha Gee - Java Champion & Co-Editor of "97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know"

DESCRIPTION
Despite the widespread adoption of DevOps and CICD, some companies still rely on manual deployments in 2023. Michael Nygard, author of "Release It!" examines new patterns and anti-patterns that have emerged since the first edition of his book was released in 2007.
Mike and Trisha Gee explore why companies using current best practices continue to encounter challenges.
Come along to hear from the trenches of the DevOps movement.

The interview is based on Mike's book "Release It! (2nd Edition)"

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Michael Nygard • Release It! 2nd Edition
Michael Nygard • Release It! 1st Edition
Kim, Humble, Debois, Forsgren & Willis • The DevOps Handbook
James Higginbotham • Principles of Web API Design
Vlad Khononov • Balancing Coupling in Software Design
Eoin Woods, Murat Erder & Pierre Pureur • Continuous Architecture in Practice

How to Help Your Boss Help You • Ken Kousen & Trisha Gee

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 09:00:00 GMT

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
gotopia.tech/bookclub

Ken Kousen - Author of "Help Your Boss Help You" & President at Kousen IT
Trisha Gee - Co-Editor of "97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know" & Java Advocacy Lead at JetBrains

DESCRIPTION
There are tons of books about how to become a manager and how to improve as a manager, but in this Book Club episode, Trisha Gee talks to Ken Kousen about how you can manage your own manager. They explore his book "Help Your Boss Help You," which takes the standpoint of an employee and how you can build a relationship with your boss that helps you get what you want. What drives the dynamic in a professional relationship, and how can you as an employee steer the wheel for your career?
The interview is based on Ken's book "Help Your Boss Help You".

Read the full transcription of the interview here

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ken Kousen • Help Your Boss Help You
Ken Kousen • Kotlin Cookbook
Ken Kousen • Modern Java Recipes
Ken Kousen • Gradle Recipes for Android
Ken Kousen • Making Java Groovy
Robert Axelrod • The Evolution of Cooperation
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies

Twitter
LinkedIn
Facebook
ncase.me/trust
medium.com/@kenkousen
kenkousen.substack.com

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97 Things Every [Java] Programmer Should Know • Trisha Gee & Kevlin Henney

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 09:00:00 GMT

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Trisha Gee - Co-Author of "97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know"
Kevlin Henney - Co-Author of "97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know"

DESCRIPTION
Discover the voices behind the “97 Things Every Java Developer Should Know” in this GOTO Book Club episode with Trisha Gee, Java Champion and leader of the Java Developer Advocacy team at JetBrains, and Kevlin Henley, thought provoker at Curbralan. They highlight how to make the most out of the book, and why it’s not intended as an exhaustive list or only targeted at Java developers.
The interview is based on Trisha's and Kevlin's book "97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know":
https://amzn.to/3kiTwJJ

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/97-things-every-programmer-should-know

RECOMMENDED BOOK
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/3kiTwJJ

Episode 465: Kevlin Henney and Trisha Gee on 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 23:29:10 GMT

Trisha Gee and Kevlin Henney of 97 things every Java developer should know discusses their book, which is a collection of essays by different developers covering the most important things to know. Host Felienne spoke withGee and Henney about all things...

The Future of Java: Will You Have to Pay For It? • Trisha Gee, Daniel Bryant & Jørn Larsen

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 12:00:00 GMT

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2019 for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Trisha Gee - Developer Advocate at JetBrains & Java Champion
Daniel Bryant - Director of Developer Relations at Ambassador Labs
Jørn Larsen - CEO of Trifork

Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/the-future-of-java-will-you-have-to-pay

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#10 - State of Java & Code Review Best Practices - Trisha Gee

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 13:02:01 GMT

“As a leader, it’s not your responsibility to do. It’s your responsibility to teach and help your team to level up. Your job is to level up your team, so that you have a team of people who can do it better and faster."

Trisha Gee is a Java Champion, author, and the leader of Java Developer Advocacy team at JetBrains. She has an extensive Java experience with expertise in Java high performance systems, and she is exceptionally passionate about sharing things that help real developers. Trisha is an author of a few books: “What to Look for in a Code Review“ and “97 Things Every Java Developer Should Know“. Trisha also produces a monthly newsletter for JetBrains called “Java Annotated Monthly”, which is a great monthly summary for all things happening in the Java world.

In this episode, I had a chat with Trisha about the current state of Java, and how it stands compared to other programming languages. She also gave some good tips on how to transition from old Java version to the latest Java version. Trisha shared some code review best practices and explained why reading code is harder than writing it, and that we should put more effort in making our code more readable. She suggested why a developer should use an IDE, and how using an IDE could help in increasing productivity and producing a more readable and idiomatic code. Trisha also shared some of her lessons learned from her recent transition to becoming a team lead.

Listen out for:

Trisha’s career journey - [00:04:54]
Trisha’s lessons learned when becoming a Team Lead - [00:10:04]
Current state of Java - [00:17:44]
How Java stands among other languages - [00:22:47]
Transitioning from older version of Java - [00:27:20]
Code review best practices - [00:33:56]
Why developers should use an IDE - [00:45:23]
Some of JetBrains products roadmap - [00:49:51]
Trisha’s 3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:52:58]

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Trisha Gee’s Bio
Trisha is a Java Champion, published author, and leader of the Java Developer Advocacy team at JetBrains. Trisha has developed Java applications for a range of industries of all sizes. She has expertise in Java high performance systems, dabbles with Open Source development, and is a leader of the Sevilla Java User Group.

Follow Trisha:

Website – https://trishagee.com
Twitter – https://twitter.com/trisha_gee

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Trisha Gee: Developers Should Invest More Time Into Learning Their Tools

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:00:08 GMT

Robby speaks with Trisha Gee, Developer Advocate at JetBrains. They discuss Trisha's role as a Developer Advocate, how open source library maintainers are underappreciated, and how developers can overcome their fear of writing, speaking, and contributing back to the community.

Helpful Links

Follow Trisha on Twitter
Trisha's blog
IntelliJ IDEA
RubyMind
[Book] 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
[Book] Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing by Mar Hicks

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Java is not Dead

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 22:18:38 GMT

This week we're joined by Java Champion and JetBrains Developer Advocate Trisha Gee. Trisha helps us sort through the noise and confusion around some changes we've all seen in the Java ecosystem, she highlights some exciting development on the horizon, and shares insights from her decades of experience as a hands-on Java practitioner. Don't miss this great interview!

Trisha on Twitter

Java annotated monthly newsletter

#60 Trisha Gee owns her career

Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Trisha took us from her first years at school, being an outsider, all the way to taking advantage of it as a developer advocate for JetBrains. During this fantastic discussion, we brushed over the people that helped and even pushed her. We spoke about being comfortable with being uncomfortable. We discussed taking a leap of faith, not burning bridges, taking control of your career, working on your brand, important developer skills and building on people.

Trisha has developed Java applications for a range of industries and non-profits of all sizes. She has expertise in Java high performance systems, is passionate about enabling developer productivity, and dabbles with Open Source development. Trisha is a leader of the Sevilla Java User Group, a Java Champion and a true believer in healthy communities. As a Developer Advocate for JetBrains, she gets to share all the interesting things she’s constantly discovering.

Note:
My audio feed was very low, my questions will be a bit hard to hear at some point. But I managed to save most of it and Trisha sounds fantastic!

Here are the links of the show:

https://twitter.com/trisha_gee
Personal blog: http://trishagee.com
Improvements for Java Developers in IntelliJ IDEA 2019.2 Screencast: https://youtu.be/NXfXc95-an4
List of Trisha's presentations: http://trishagee.github.io/presentation/public_appearances
Dave Farley and Jez Humble Continuous Integration
Kathy Sierra, "Badass: Making users awesome" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25348796-badass

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Soft skills, communication, and programming as a thinking activity

Tue, 09 Jul 2019 11:00:33 GMT

“We need to be able to talk to people. Talking to the computer is the easy part.” That’s Java developer advocate Trisha Gee at JetBrains.

Trisha speaks worldwide about career development for programmers, including soft skills, communication skills, and what it means to really progress your career as a developer.

In this inspiring episode, Ledge talks with Trisha about listening; asking questions; sharing information, and how those activities are what make us a senior developer, a VPE, or a CTO.

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Learn to Work Smarter to Become a More Effective Developer With Trisha Gee

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT

GUEST BIO:

Trisha Gee is a developer advocate at JetBrains, where she gets to share all the interesting things she's constantly discovering. Trisha has developed Java applications for a range of industries and for companies of all sizes. Trisha has expertise in Java high-performance systems, is passionate about enabling developer productivity and dabbles with open source development.

EPISODE DESCRIPTION:

Phil's guest today is Trisha Gee. She works as a developer advocate for Jet Brains. Her goal is to help developers to make their lives easier and become more productive. Trisha spreads the word about how to do this using live training, social media and public speaking. Her expertise is in Java high-performance systems. She is the leader of Seville's Java User and Monod user groups as well as being a key member of the London groups. Trisha is a Java Champion and a MongoDB Master.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

(1.04) – So Trisha, can you expand on that brief introduction and tell us a little bit more about yourself? She responds by saying she is interested in everything and has been a developer for 20 years. Trisha has always resisted has always had broad interests, so has never stuck to just one discipline. As a developer advocate she talks directly with her company's developers about products, languages or frameworks that can be useful to them. Basically, she helps them to quickly get to grips with them. She enjoys the fact that, this role requires her to teach, present and write as well as use her technical knowledge.

(2.10) – Phil comments that hiring a developer advocate is becoming more common. Trisha agrees that is the case. In particular enterprises like banks are starting to hire them. They have APIs that need to be widely used. Developers need to be able to easily incorporate them into what they are doing. In the past, difficult to read, official documentation was used to communicate with developers. Documentation that does not fit in with the way developers think. Today, there are developer advocates, like Trisha, who are able to quickly bridge that communication gap.

(3.12) – Phil asks Trisha for a unique IT career tip. Trisha's advice is to learn communication skills as well as technical ones. Being able to listen properly and answer questions in a clear and understandable way is extremely important. If you want to become an architect or lead communication becomes even more vital.

(4.20) –Trisha is asked to share her worst career moment with the audience. Trisha said that happened when she typed rm -rf in the wrong directory. It is a mistake that a lot of people make, just not in production or a huge 8 level live testing environment, which is what Trisha was working on at the time. Trisha thought she was in directory level 6, in fact she was higher up, so ended up trashing multiple directories. Just before Christmas lunch. The testers were in the middle of testing in every one of these environments. As a result, they were not in a consistent state. So, restoring from backups would have been too hit and miss. She had to ask the testers they would need to do some of the tests again. It taught her the value of owning your mistakes. She quickly explained what she had done and how it could be fixed. Once she had done that, everyone was OK about the situation and the problem got fixed faster.

(6.42) – Phil asks Trisha what her career highlight has been. Going from being a developer to a developer advocate has been Trisha's career highlight. Becoming a public speaker was her first step along that rewarding path. But taking that step happened in a slightly unusual way. At a conference, she met Martin Fowler and mentioned the fact there were not enough female speakers. His response was "you can change that." You are an articulate woman, so you can speak at conferences and play a part in solving the problem. Trisha had planned to do exactly that, but was thinking of it more as a long term goal. Martin had made her understand that she could get started immediately. So, when her boss asked her to co-present with him at JavaOne, she just did it. The rest is history, at that moment she started participating in showing developers the way forward.

(9.00) – How much practice did you have before you stood up on stage for the first time? For that speech, she did not get any specific practice in. She had seen her boss, Martin Thompson, present that speech before and she had been blogging about it. So, he knew that she could do it on the fly. They just went through the slides and she watched the earlier version. But, Trisha does not do that now. She always practices the entire speech, several times.

(9.59) – Phil asks Trisha what excites her about the future of the IT industry and careers in IT. Trisha says the broadness of the field. You can be doing anything, solving any problem. Trisha expressed the wish to see the IT industry become more diverse. Improving the diversity should be done, but it will also bring many benefits. It will spark off different ways of working together and solving problems.

(12.10) – What drew you to a career in IT? She started programming when she was 9 or 10. She liked the idea of typing something into a machine and getting it to do more or less what she had intended. Also, the fact you can constantly enhance and tweak things appeals. Being able to discover something new simply by looking at it from a different angle and trying a few things is also something she enjoyed about IT.

(12.59) – Phil asks Trisha if programming was what she planned to do when she left school. Surprisingly, Trisha said no. In her teenage years, she more or less stopped programming. But, studied math, physics and computer science at A level because she wanted to do astrophysics, go to Mars and join NASA. However, she realized that physics was really just lots of different types of math. With computing the computer does the math for you. Leaving you free to think about how the user can benefit from what you are doing. For her, physics was just too abstract. Computer programming appealed much more.

(14.34) – What is the best career advice you were given? Trisha does not feel she has received career advice, as such. But, she has had great mentors, people who have helped her to progress along her chosen path.

(15.08) – If you were to begin your IT career again, now, what would you do? Trisha says she would focus on machine learning. At university, she studied AI as well as computer science. But, when she graduated, practical AI was really just a pipe dream.

(16.12) – What career objectives are you currently focusing on? Currently, she is asking herself what next? There is a possibility that she will be thinking a bit more strategically, perhaps leading other developer advocates. Or, she may turn her attention to deploying to the Cloud, DevOps and Docker, because, so far, she has not really covered those areas. But, whatever she does, she really wants to make a difference to the lives of developers. She wants to reach as many developers as possible and help them to be more effective and move forward.

(18.23) – What is the number one non-technical skill that has helped you the most in your IT career? Trisha said writing, which has pushed her to sit down and work things out then share it with others.

(19.16) – Phil asks Trisha to share a final piece of career advice. Trisha says it is all too easy to become overwhelmed by the fact there is so much you have to learn. It is always going to be like that. Even the most experienced people do not know everything. Things are constantly changing, so everyone in the industry has to continuously learn. You need to become with the fact that you are just going to have to learn stuff on the job.

BEST MOMENTS:

(3.21) TRISHA – "Don't just focus on the technical skills,"

(3.45) TRISHA – "If you're able to listen to answers and listen to concerns from your users, it will make you a better developer."

(6.16) TRISHA – "You have to own your mistakes,"

(11.02) TRISHA – "I think if we improve the diversity, it is just going to become much more interesting and much more exciting, as we get different ideas from people with different backgrounds."

(11.48) TRISHA – "When you fix something for one set of people, you actually make it better for everyone."

(19.06) TRISHA – "The ability to take technical ideas and write them down in it in a useful, readable way, has probably been the best skill that I've got that isn't coding."

CONTACT TRISHA GEE:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/trisha_gee @trisha_gee

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trishagee/

Website: http://trishagee.github.io/

Groovy Podcast Ep. 57, S02E08

Wed, 09 May 2018 17:16:14 GMT

Special edition of the Groovy Podcast with Trisha Gee, Java Champion and Developer Advocate at JetBrains.