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Welcome to the eleventh issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It’s been a special week. But at least, in our industry, we are pretty well equipped and used to remote working. Let’s just cross our fingers and hope that the measures taken will get the situation under control and we can...

Welcome to the eigth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week, I was at Devnexus in Atlanta. This awesome conference organized by the Atlanta Java User Group has established itself as the place to be if you are a Java developer. This year with 2400 attendees and an amazing line-up...

Welcome to the sixth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! On the fun side, I was made aware that my shoutout for the Hashtag series may be a little confusing as you can see in my conversation with Ronnie Zolverda. I didn’t want to use #5 to indicate number 5 since...

Welcome to the fifth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This weekend, I attended my first FOSDEM. This is a free event that takes place in Brussels every year. It is quite an experience with fully packed rooms and crowded corridors. Sessions are short (25 mins) and focused. Absolutely a recommendation...

This post is meant to clear up some misunderstandings that occurred during a discussion thread on the Jakarta EE Community mailing list. Some of this is a repetition of what I described in Jakarta EE 9 Shaping Up in December, but such an important topic cannot be stressed enough. The...

Welcome to the fourth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We’re on a roll here! I can’t believe it is already four weeks since I started this series! Stay tuned for announcements about Jakarta MVC! A little on the side of Jakarta EE, but still related is that the MVC 1.0...

Welcome to the third issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Most of this week was spent at the Eclipse Foundation office in Ottawa. It is great to have the opportunity to meet the people I work with daily in person once in a while. On Tuesday, January 14, there was an...

Welcome to the second issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week, I have been in Sandusky, Ohio for CodeMash. This awesome conference is organized by an Ohio Non-Profit Organization and is held at the Kalahari resort in Sandusky, Ohio. In addition to meeting a bunch of awesome people, I had...

For a while now, I have been thinking of posting more regular updates about stuff going on in the Jakarta EE community. Kind of what Josh Long does with his “This Week in Spring” series. Being a big fan of Josh and the work he is doing in the community...

It is time for my yearly summary of conferences and community activities. In addition to numerous local meetups and online events, I had the opportunity to speak at the following major developer conferences: Jfokus, Stockholm Devnexus, Atlanta ConFoo, Montreal JavaLand, Brühl JEEConf, Kiev QCon, São Paulo DevTalks, Bucharest Java Cloud...