# Geertjan Wielenga

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What is foojay.io?

An airhacks.fm conversation with Geertjan Wielenga (@GeertjanW) about: Geertjan previously on airhacks.fm at: "#212 From a NetBeans Champion to a Friend of the openJDK", what is foojay.io, Friends of OpenJDK, foojay Disco API, Bert on airhacks.fm on: "#123 Plasma is the new "Hello,World"…

State and future of the IDEs (#12)

In this podcast,  we are talking to some of the key people working on different IDEs, Integrated Development Environments. Those are applications that provide tools to computer programmers for software development. An IDE typically consists of at least a source code editor, build automation tools, …

Welcome to Foojay! (#6)

In this episode, we want to give you a look behind the curtains of Foojay.io. The very first post on the website dates from April 25th in 2020, and it was by Geertjan Wielenga. Let's look back and what has happened on Foojay during the 2,5 years since that first post, and talk to some of the people…

JCON Report, Part 1 (#49) - JUGs, Communities, Open Source, Generative AI, LangChain4j, Machine Learning

On Tuesday, May 14th, the Foojay Podcast went live at the JCON conference in Cologne, Germany, to talk with speakers and visitors about all things Java. We had so many amazing talks that we will combine them into several podcast episodes in the next weeks. This is part 1!00:26 Geertjan Wielenga: Fo…

DevRel Explained and How to Become a Conference Speaker (#59)

What do people who have Developer Relations as their job description do? And how do you become a conference speaker? You'll learn in this Foojay podcast! At Devoxx in Belgium, I got to talk to Josh Long, Baruch, Pratik Patel, and Roni Dover, who are on the stage because it's part of their job. They…

Interviews at JFall about opensource, OpenJDK evolutions, Project Loom, JVM,... (#64)

Let's wrap up this year with more interviews from the JFall conference. In this episode you'll learn more about Foojay, JVM internals and writing your own programming language, Project Loom and structured concurrency, learning at conferences, code reviews, creating desktop applications with Java, i…

Celebrating 5 Years of Foojay! (#70)

On April 25, 2020, Geertjan Wielenga published the first Foojay post. Yes, we are celebrating 5 years since the Friends Of OpenJDK website launch! Today, more than 1,600 posts are on the site, written by over 250 authors. And there is much more to discover within the Foojay world...In this podcast,…

DevBcn Report, Part 1 – Learn from the Community (#76)

In early July, the DevBcn conference in Barcelona featured a diverse lineup of speakers, covering topics across multiple technology domains. Geertjan Wielenga took the camera and microphone with him to Spain. Together with Nacho Cougil and Jonathan Vila, two of the organizers, he spoke with many vi…

More Than a Blog: How Foojay Connects, Sustains, and Evolves the Java Community (#94)

Foojay.io, the website for the Friends of OpenJDK, is turning six years old. To celebrate, Frank Delporte headed to JCON in Cologne, Germany, and sat down with twelve members of the Java community to talk about what Foojay means to them, what they learn from each other, and how the community is evo…