Blog Posts

I got the opportunity to attend {code and compliance} 2025 in Brussels. The event was organized by the Open Compliance and Regulatory working group at Eclipse Foundation. It was an interesting day with presentations, workshops, and panels with topics about and around the Cyber Resillience Act (CRA). Since this is...

JDD was one of my first international conferences I spoke at when I started my conference speaker journey. I presented here in 2013 and 2014 before returning this year. This was the 19th edition of JDD, so the conference is definitely among the long running ones. With a little over...

In my talk at Come To Code 2025 about Advancing Your Career with Open Source, I mentioned the SKILLAB Project. Afterwards, I started thinking that this project is worth some more attention in form of a blog post. This is the result. I hope you will like it. SKILLAB is...

Welcome to issue number three hundred and three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I was in Croatia for JavaCro 2025. The conference season isn’t quite over yet. Next week, I will go to Kraków to present Jakarta EE at JDD 2025. Last time I was at JDD was in 2014...

My first time at JavaCro was a vert pleasant ecperience. I have heard so much about this conference located on an Island off the shore of Croatia. The Island is Sveti Andrija (St. Andrew Island), a 15-minute boat trip from Rovinj. I had two talks on the first day of...

TheiaCon 2025 is almost here: our two-day online conference (29–30 October, 16:00–19:00 CET) fully dedicated to the Eclipse Theia ecosystem and to the future of AI-native, cloud-based, open developer tools. This year’s agenda is packed with technical depth, innovation, and real-world stories from across the community. Whether you’re building IDEs...

Have you ever wondered who the committers behind Eclipse Autowrx are? Eclipse Autowrx is an SDV project that pursues a digital-first approach for the creation of next-generation customer experiences. Meet Project Lead Nhan Luong, Senior Software Architect at Bosch Vietnam. After spending ten years in the IoT industry, he transitioned...

Do you want to know more about vulnerability management? As a developer, you might receive reports, or need to create some for your upstream projects. As a user, you might find something that could have security impacts. As a Committer, you want to know how to best manage reports your...

The Eclipse Foundation Security Team’s vision for the “Implementing Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) for projects” initiative is that all Eclipse Foundation projects automatically generate SBOMs for new releases and upload them to a centralized, publicly accessible registry. Building on this vision, SBOMs are generated during the build process and...

Welcome to issue number three hundred and two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week, I was in Orlando for IBM TechXchange 2025. I went directly to this event from dev2next in Colorado Springs. After almost two weeks in the US, I had one night at home continuing to Rovinj in Croatia...