How to Jump Start Your Career in Open Source (video)

Back in August I spent a week at DevConf.US and got to share a really special story that comes from personal experience while being involved in open source throughout my career.

It's one I've used to open events, as a keynote in various adjusted forms, and as a session like this one. One thing remains the same throughout each telling, it's about sharing how to jump start your career in open source.
It's a very special talk, one that reached out to each and every one of us regardless of your age, the number of years in your job, and most of all, no matter what you are doing right now you'll learn something new. Not many talks promise you that, do they?

Here's the session recording from DevConf.US 2019 in Boston University.

Digital Architecture Design Day 2019 Keynote

On Thursday, November 14 in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands a unique conference for IT architects will be hosted at the Congress center 1931. It's called the Digital Architecture Design Day 2019 (DADD) and they've been so kind as to invite me for a keynote slot.

What's the DADD you ask? Well, in their own words, "It's a community driven event that will reveal the best ways of putting strategy into practice for information intensive, medium to large sized ecosystems that deal with a complex environment. Our goal is achieving sustainable change and coherent solutions by exchanging visions from global thought leaders, best practices, learnings and ideas. Digital Architecture Design Day is a one day conference festival incl. evening program and walking dinner: playground of creativity, innovation and hands-on experiences. People come for the insight, but stay for the networking and fun!"

With a conference full of architects you can expect some of the keynotes to have titles focused on customer centrist design, digital transformation, and other technically focused topics. Nothing wrong with that, but I thought it might be fun to share a story with you about how being more open might just be the secret sauce for your career as an architect.

How's that work?

The Ultimate Starter Kit For JBoss BRMS

There is nothing quite like getting your game on with a new rules and events technology or product.

The same is true of Red Hat JBoss BRMS in that you have enough resources at your disposal to kick-start your journey, but where to start?

There is a vast amount of information online but we want to start our journey with the basics to get us going.

Something more in the way of a practical 'hands on' start to rules and events with JBoss BRMS.

Introduction

This announcement is bringing just that, an ultimate JBoss BRMS Starter Kit, that is an outline to provide you with the ability to hit the ground running.

You get a straight forward, easy to consume and ready to go set of resources that will have you producing rules and events artifacts with JBoss BRMS in a matter of hours.

The starter kit

We have put together the following for you in the JBoss BRMS Starter Kit:

• outline of who the starter kits are for
• getting started with the kit
• simple workshop online
• demo project online
• provide a workshop in the OpenShift Cloud to take away
• walk through what you will learn in this workshop
• send you on your way with resources
• in depth article archive
• best practices 
• tips & tricks series
• how to video archive

 What are you waiting for?

There is no time like the present to get your very own rules and events education going with the hands on approach provided by the JBoss BRMS Starter Kit!