Writing on Trisha Gee

Getting started with Aeron is hard.

My husband and I have found a new way to get through tough times (and I don’t just mean relationship-wise!).

When I worked at Ford as a shiny new graduate in the early noughties, they told me “don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions”.

I am struggling.

I’m working on creating a training course for IntelliJ IDEA (I’ve been working on it for a while now, I don’t really want to talk to much about it because I’m not sure when I’ll actually deliver it).

My latest video for the Continuous Delivery YouTube channel is about staying up to date in tech.

Context and Background It’s currently 2024, and I was looking for some “Getting Started with DevRel” content from my blog.

This week’s video for Dave Farley’s Continuous Delivery YouTube channel is me ranting about why reading code sucks, and offering some advice on how to improve.

During the last four weeks I’ve been to a few conferences.

Today I’m experimenting with something new.

A few glasses of fizzy were consumed during the JetBrains party at Devoxx Belgium last year: Holly: You do presentations about productivity, and about developer happiness, and I do presentations about developer joy.

I ran a poll asking my followers which content to produce for Dave’s Continuous Delivery YouTube channel.

I freaking HATE flaky tests.

Have you ever run a Gradle build that failed and seen this message?

This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for eight and a half years.

I wrote a 3000 word blog post in response to a Tweet about how having kids changed my career (which in retrospect probably doesn’t even answer the question).

I’m about to jet off on my sunny* summer holidays, so it’s a good time to leave you with my recommended reading and learning.

I’m working on a new talk which aims to address some of the issues that face developers when it comes to running automated tests.

Why I prefer trunk-based development These days, distributed version control systems like Git have “won the war” of version control.

Preface to 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

One of the things you have to do as a self published author is marketing.

I know I owe you a blog post1, and today I actually have the time, energy and inclination to write it.

My last post was about the history of writing Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA.

Hey Helen, I know you were disappointed you missed out on a chance to contribute to 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know, do you want to write a book with me?

Right.

It’s not you, it’s them.

Tomorrow, 22nd December 2021, is my last day at JetBrains.

I’ve been playing with NIO for network stuff to see if/how I want to update the code for Head First Java 3rd Edition.

I got a chance to look at this year’s State of Spring Report from VMware Tanzu, and I’ve summarized what I’ve found interesting so my readers can get the TL;DR (from my opinionated position).

I’ve just seen JEP 416: Reimplement Core Reflection with Method Handles has been promoted to Candidate status (“Candidate: Accepted for inclusion in the OpenJDK roadmap”), and thought I’d find out a bit more about it.

pic.twitter.com/ElrgOGCPyz — CSM Rachel W Terrell (@TheeWendyT) May 15, 2021 I fixed it for you:

Dalia and I (and a number of others!)

OK so here we go, my almost-regular annual roundup.

I’ve been migrating all my JavaFX applications to Java 15 / JavaFX 15.0.1 to see if there are any pain points or gotchas to be aware of.

You might think, particularly given the order in which I have posted these blog posts, that I tackled the easiest application first when I decided to upgrade my JavaFX applications.

I’m helping out a bit with an IntelliJ IDEA Live Stream on JavaFX, and I used that as an excuse to refresh my JavaFX knowledge.

This week we’re doing a Live Stream on JavaFX, and I wanted to use that opportunity to refresh my JavaFX knowledge.

Guess what?

I have loads of advice for aspiring speakers, which is lucky because I get asked about how to get started (or how I got started) all the time.

I’m inspired to write this post because Someone Is Wrong On The Internet.

I’ve had a fantastic week of meeting with colleagues and friends, getting to know some of my organisation, brainstorming ideas for next year, working out how to prioritise and plan, being handed greater responsibility and freedom…

Right so yes. 2020, hello.

I didn’t see what an enormous impact Mum made on my life, because she was always there.

This July my Mum passed away, apparently cancer was the one opponent she couldn’t beat in an argument.

This article was originally a guest post for FogBugz.

When you’re a new speaker, or just starting to consider speaking at conferences or user groups for the first time, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by all the things you worry about when delivering a talk.

For years I’ve avoided talking about the topic of what to wear when presenting.

I realise I have a bunch of experience and advice for speakers and potential speakers that I simply haven’t written down or shared.

Now I’ve been speaking at (mostly Java) conferences for a while (six years now), I get asked to present at a lot of conferences.

Mandatory initial exclamation about how little I have blogged here lately.