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Philly JUG 2024

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - 08:27 by Ivar Grimstad
I had a great time speaking at the Philly JUG Yesterday! The topic of my talk was the implications of the namespace change from javax.* to jakarta.* in Jakarta EE 9 when migrating from Spring Boot 2 to Spring Boot 3. The slides are available on SpeakerDeck. Before the event...

Hashtag Jakarta EE #216

Sunday, February 18, 2024 - 05:59 by Ivar Grimstad
Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I’m back from my vacation and I am ready to roll again. This week, I will cross the pond to speak at PhillyJUG on Tuesday before continuing to Montreal and ConFoo 2024 for the remainder of the week...

Hashtag Jakarta EE #215

Sunday, February 11, 2024 - 05:59 by Ivar Grimstad
Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I started with a trip to Jfokus 2024 in Stockholm. Directly after that, I began a week of vacation, meaning I am diving in the Red Sea while you are reading this. The Jakarta EE Platform project...

Jfokus 2024

Tuesday, February 6, 2024 - 12:21 by Ivar Grimstad
Jfokus is an excellent conference, and the 2024 edition was no different from the previous ones. I have had the pleasure of being a fairly regular speaker there, and since they try to rotate the speakers a little I didn’t really expect to speak there this year. However, due to...

Hashtag Jakarta EE #214

Sunday, February 4, 2024 - 05:59 by Ivar Grimstad
Welcome to issue number two hundred and fourteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I arrived back home from my January JUG Tour with visits to the JCP 25-Year Anniversary Party, Nashville JUG, Seattle JUG, and Portland JUG yesterday. But no rest for the brave. Already tomorrow, I am traveling to Stockholm for...

Portland JUG 2024

Thursday, February 1, 2024 - 11:50 by Ivar Grimstad
I decided to take the train from Seattle to Portland as it is the most convenient way of going between those cities unless you have a car. I’ve been told that this train usually is very reliable and punctual. This time, however, there was a mechanical issue with the train...

Seattle JUG 2024

Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 12:18 by Ivar Grimstad
The January JUG tour continues to the Pacific Northwest. Yesterday, I visited the Seattle JUG and presented From Spring Boot 2 to Spring Boot 3 with Java 21 and Jakarta EE for 30 attendees at the Microsoft Reactor in Redmond. It was a very engaging group with lots of questions...

Nashville JUG 2024

Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - 17:34 by Ivar Grimstad
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Nashville Java User Group. The JUG was rebooted last year and now features monthly meetups. So far, every speaker has been a Java Champion and there is pizza and drinks at every event. My talk about migrating from Spring Boot 2...

Hashtag Jakarta EE #213

Sunday, January 28, 2024 - 05:59 by Ivar Grimstad
Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week continued with discussions around Java versions. The latest update is that the Jakarta EE Specification Committee wants to do a Progress Review of the planned Jakarta EE 11 release. This is all according to the Jakarta EE...