Africa is shaping the future of open source
Bringing OCX Africa to Lagos was a personal and career highlight for me. I was born in Lesotho, and have...
Celebrating 7 Years at the Eclipse Foundation
Today marks seven years since I joined the Eclipse Foundation as the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate. Looking back, it has...
Trusted Publishing on Open VSX
If you publish a VS Code extension to Open VSX through GitHub Actions, Trusted Publishing lets you replace a stored...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #352
Welcome to issue number three hundred and fifty-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The proposal for the Jakarta CRaC specification is...
When Agents Join the Community
Stephen O’Grady recently argued that AI agents may be becoming the new New Kingmakers . His point is that agents...
Vetting Dart and Flutter Third Party Dependencies
We’ve recently added support for vetting Dart and Flutter dependencies to IPLab, the service that manages licence data for the...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #351
Welcome to issue number three hundred and fifty-one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week, I was touring the US East...
New York Java SIG 2026
After two busy days of traveling, we spent the day touring Manhattan before the third and last stop on the...
Garden State JUG 2026
The second stop on the 2026 US JUG Tour was Garden State JUG. We did the same talks as we...
Philly JUG 2026
This Monday, I visited the Philly JUG together with Gerrit from Azul. In his talk From Prompt to Code, he...
Upcoming improvements to the ECA validation process
For many years, we’ve kept the existing mechanisms for the ECA validation process running without deep changes in the flow...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #350
Welcome to issue number three hundred and fifty of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The conference session has started. Over the past...
IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2026
IntelliJ IDEA Conf is a virtual conference where the speakers and hosts are gathered in the same location. The 2026...