Brian Demers

Hey #Maven users, want to learn 18 hacks and tips (all free or OSS!) to be more productive? Join @Java Champion, @TheASF #Maven committer, @Gradle developer advocate, and experienced beekeeper @briandemers on Jan-23 for a look at making your Maven experience happier and more productive! Register here 👇 gradle.com/events/develop…

Call for Paper? ✅ #CFP review? ✅ Building the schedule? ⚙️ Excited for #JCON2025? 💯🔥 We just had our #ContentBoard meeting to finalize the CFP review. Next up is the #schedule, so stay tuned! Wanna join #JCON EUROPE 2025? 🎟️2025.europe.jcon.one/tickets

I got a chance to speed-watch (or re-watch) the most interesting videos of 2024 from the Continuous Delivery channel and talk to @davefarley77 about them. If you're spending this week reflecting on 2024, this might help. youtu.be/bHV0pESG__Q?fe…

Using #Maven? Join @briandemers Jan-23 for "Developer Productivity with #ApacheMaven: 18 hacks to accelerate your builds and tests" From low-hanging fruit to more advanced use cases, there is something for any developer working with Maven builds here. Save your seat! 👇 gradle.com/events/develop…

Congratulations to new #Java Champion @marcushellberg

@Java_Champions @marcushellberg Woot! Congrats!

@bmarwell Wizard! I’ve played and online version (with a different name) it was fun, but i forgot the site. 🤦

Happy New Year's Eve! 🎉🥳🥂🃏 Who can guess the game?

After more than two years, I finally get to celebrate the release of my first-ever book, “Helidon Revealed: A Practical Guide to Oracle’s Microservices Framework! This would not have been possible without the help of my beautiful bride, @RedlichRowena, who kept me focused!

Do you find code reviews frustrating? I do! So here are my 6 tips to make code reviews less painful: youtu.be/d9_fweNDjKw?fe…

I woke up today to see the Java Champion nomination posts and I can only say I’m truly happy and humbled to join this amazing group. I hope to liveup to the standards of a champion and promise to continue supporting this incredible community as I always have. Long live #Java! 🥳

I’m sure this has nothing to do with tooling. Note to reader: Programmer tech adoption is 80% about tooling (which is 80% about ecosystem (which is 80% about tooling))

New version of JWT-UI released. Check it out github.com/jwt-rs/jwt-ui/…

Sing it with me! “Hello World!”

Dear @ASFMavenProject community, As more people move to BlueSky, let's build a Maven community there. I created a Starter Pack for Apache Maven at BlueSky. Who did I miss? go.bsky.app/EsaaHFm

Get out of #Maven dependency hell! Top 5 tips from @briandemers 👇 1. Use dependency management 2. Understand your Maven dependency tree 3. Use the Enforcer Plugin 4. Keep dependencies to a minimum 5. Regularly update your dependencies gradle.com/blog/five-ways…

@briandemers and I will present on Testing on Thin Ice: Chipping Away at Test Unpredictability at @devnexus in March 2025! Come to this great community Java and Cloud conf and see me and other great speakers present! Use this code to get an extra $100 off your ticket: SEEMESPEAK

@simas_ch - The higher the test coverage the better 🧑‍💻

I think my next talk will be a myth-buster talk. There are so many myths in software development that are simply copied and many developers blindly follow evangelists without thinking for themselves.

35 years of Pretty Hate Machine.

My doctor and dentist offices send me notices and reminders from 3rd party domains. It makes it look like a phishing message. It's no surprise why phishing is still effective.

The #JCON CFP is open for a month, submit now so you don't forget!