Ivar Grimstad's blog

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I have just arrived back home from JConf Dominica 2024, and have a couple of hours to pack my bags before heading out again for JCrete 2024. Busy times for a developer advocate, but so incredibly great to be...

A Java conference in the Dominican Republic sounds too good to be true. Well, I can tell you that it is a thing, and it is awesome! JConf Dominicana, The Caribbean Java Technologies Conference is organized by Java Dominicano, the Dominican Java User Group. It is a one-day conference with...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! After a couple of weeks at home, I am going on the road again. First off is JConfDomincana, the Caribbean Java Technologies Conference organized by the Dominican Republic Java User Group, where I will host a workshop together with...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week I was speaking at Developer Week’24 in Nuremberg, Germany. That was my last conference of the European conference season before summer. This year, there will be a couple of conferences during the summer before the fall season...

Developer Week is a four-day conference that takes place in Nuremberg, Germany. As the name implies, it is a developer conference where Java is a track among the other track topics. I spoke at the conference for the first time in 2017, and it feels like the Java track has...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As I wrote last week, all the Jakarta EE 11 specifications are now finished and the remaining work to get Jakarta EE 11 released is to finalize the refactoring of the TCK and have at least one open-source compatible...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! All the specifications that will be part of Jakarta EE 11 have passed their release review and have been, or are in the process of being released. The efforts are now on finalizing the TCK and wrapping up the...

UPDATED: It was pointed out to me by Rosaria that I had missed including the picture of us about to go kayaking in my post. This obviously had to be corrected! Scroll down to the bottom of the post to read about #kayakingWithJakartaEE. Once a year, the Eclipse Foundation comes...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I was speaking at DevBCN 2024 in Barcelona. My next conference appearance will be at Developer Week ’24, which takes place in Nürnberg on July 1-5. But even if conference season is winding down for summer, I...

My second trip to Barcelona in less than two weeks was to DevBCN. This community-driven conference is always a pleasure to speak at. And it doesn’t hurt that it is located in Barcelona… This time we had an Eclipse Foundation booth staffed by Carmen, Arjan, and yours truly. We even...