I’ve been at Sonatype for a few months and it’s been quite the roller coaster.  A stupid amount of fun as we grow the DevReal team, figure out what’s important, what’s not and how to do all the usual stuff that DevRel teams do.  (BTW Just in case it wasn’t clear we’re hiring)

The major ups and downs have come mostly from two things.  The knock on effects from COVID19. (Problematic travel,  inability to meet in person etc) and the emergence of one and now two or event three  major Java vulnerabilities.   Just before the end of 2021  Log4Shell hit the streets.  Wrong metaphor probably but you know what I mean.  Then literally this week we see the appearance of Spring4Shell and a similar but different Spring RCE. 

Fun and Games

Whatever Java related role you  have now it’s been an unusually stress full few months for many of us.  In recognition of this (and to be honest just because it’s a fun thing). Sonatype has been working with the London Java Community,  Microsoft and a great developer called Hanno Embregts to create a game we can all play. Online or face to face.

You can guess from the title that this game is inspired by the original  Jeopardy TV series.  

Java JEP’dy

Our game consists of a series of clues that the contestants have to use to guess the question.  For instance the clue “In Java 15 we said goodbye to this German rhinoceros”. might have the question  “What is Nashorn”.    Simple huh?   Each successful answer scores points. Each wrong guess costs points.  Winner takes all.

Clues, CLUES, CLUES

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