Foojay Podcast #19: Working Free For Fun Brings Fame & Fortune
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2 min readApr 17, 2023
Many developers spend a lot of their time on side projects. It’s an opportunity to learn new techniques and get involved in communities.
But sometimes it can also lead to a new job.
Or even starting a business based on such a project.
Today we are talking to people who achieved such a transition and became famous and rich, or at least some of each…
Guests
- Tim te Beek
- https://twitter.com/TimteBeek
- https://docs.openrewrite.org
- https://www.moderne.io - Maarten Mulders
- https://twitter.com/mthmulders - Lukas Eder
- https://twitter.com/lukaseder
- https://www.jooq.org/
Podcast host
- Frank Delporte
- https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte
- https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
Content
- 00'00 Intro
- 00'31 Introduction of the guests
- 02'28 What projects are the guests working on?
- https://maven.apache.org/
- Maven Central Search: https://github.com/mthmulders/mcs
- https://foojay.io/today/introduction-to-maven-toolchains/
- https://docs.openrewrite.org
- https://www.moderne.io
- https://www.jooq.org/
- https://foojay.io/today/5-great-reasons-to-use-jooq/ - 06'34 How Tim got a job at Moderne
- 08'23 The connection between OpenRewrite and Moderne
- 09'23 How jOOQ became a company
- https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-cathedral/0596001088/
- https://scala-slick.org/
- https://foojay.io/today/vaadin-and-jooq-match-made-in-heaven/
- https://foojay.io/today/multiple-spring-boot-apps-same-project/ - 14'44 Building a product is more valuable compared to offering support
- https://entreprenerd.lowagie.com/index.html - 21'22 About open-source licenses
- 23'48 Why and how Info Support allows Maarten to work on open-source within working hours
- 27'47 What you can learn from an open-source project
- https://entreprenerd.lowagie.com/index.html - 28'54 Does every developer have to do be an open-source contributor?
- 32'13 Becoming rich thanks to open-source? Projects versus Products…
- https://s.apache.org/for-the-grabs_maven - 48’33 About the Fosdem talk about OpenRewrite
- https://foojay.io/today/foojay-io-at-fosdem-2023-trip-report/
- https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/migrations/ - 48’53 Benevolent dictator for life and how to make money from a programming language
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life
- https://business.jooq.org/ - 51'22 Outro
Originally published at https://foojay.io on April 17, 2023.