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Hashtag Jakarta EE #303

Sunday, October 19, 2025 - 05:59 by Ivar Grimstad
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...

JavaCro 2025

Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 10:22 by Ivar Grimstad
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...

Hashtag Jakarta EE #302

Sunday, October 12, 2025 - 05:59 by Ivar Grimstad
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...

IBM TechXChange 2025

Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 18:04 by Ivar Grimstad
This was my second time speaking at IBM TechXchange. First time was at the inaugural event in 2023 located in Las Vegas with around 2000 attendees. At this year’s event in Orlando, it had grown to around 9000 attendees. New this year was that the Java community track was organised...

dev2next 2025

Monday, October 6, 2025 - 11:05 by Ivar Grimstad
The second edition of dev2next was a fantastic experience. Located in beautiful Colorado Springs and with a speaker lineup other conferences can only dream of, this conference is the place to be. If you only can pick one conference to attend, dev2next should definitely be on your radar. I did...

Hashtag Jakarta EE #301

Sunday, October 5, 2025 - 11:40 by Ivar Grimstad
Welcome to issue number three hundred and one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am now in Colorado Springs waiting for my flight to Orlando. The dev2next conference was an amazing experience. So many great speakers, talks, and conversations. A blog post from the event is coming up shortly. The next event...

Come To Code 2025

Tuesday, September 30, 2025 - 16:55 by Ivar Grimstad
Come To Code is a fantastic community event organized by a very dedicated Linux User Group in beautiful Pignola in the south of Italy. Despite the remote location, it gathered 180 eager attendees. This alone is an impressive accomplishment. The conference had two parallel tracks, as well as track dedicated...

Hashtag Jakarta EE #300

Sunday, September 28, 2025 - 05:59 by Ivar Grimstad
Welcome to issue number three hundred of Hashtag Jakarta EE! In the beginning of this week I was in Madrid speaking and attending at Open Source Community Day 2025 before I continued to Italy for Come To Code in Pignola. I will soon publish a post of the last one. Next...

Open Source Community Day 2025

Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 19:43 by Ivar Grimstad
I had the pleasure of being invited to speak at Open Source Community Day 2025 in Madrid. This two-day event gathered attendees and speakers involved in EU research projects all over Europe. It is not my usual crowd, so it was interesting to see how this community works. I must...

Hashtag Jakarta EE #299

Sunday, September 21, 2025 - 05:59 by Ivar Grimstad
Welcome to issue number two hundred and ninety-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The discussions regarding inclusion of new specifications in Jakarta EE 12 continued in this week’s Jakarta EE Platform call. Jakarta Query and Jakarta NoSQL are the most likely candidates. In addition, potentially fold the Jakarta Debugging Support for Other...