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Hashtag Jakarta EE #257

Sunday, December 1, 2024 - 05:59 by Ivar Grimstad
Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifty-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! My last conference of November was Porto Tech Hub 2024. It has been a busy couple of months, and it isn’t over just yet. There are two conferences on my agenda in December. First up is the sixth...

Porto Tech Hub 2024

Friday, November 29, 2024 - 06:02 by Ivar Grimstad
I visited Porto once back in the ’90s when I was Interrailing (traveling by train on a relatively affordable ticket valid in most European countries) across Europe with some friends. But that was a while ago, so it was about time I returned. The day before the conference, there was...

Hashtag Jakarta EE #256

Sunday, November 24, 2024 - 04:12 by Ivar Grimstad
Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifty-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I visited Czechia on a min-tour of a couple of Czech Java User Groups. I spoke at Prague JUG on Tuesday and Brno JUG on Wednesday. In the upcoming week, I will go to Porto to speak...

Brno JUG 2024

Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 05:36 by Ivar Grimstad
The second, and last, stop on this mini-Tour of Czech JUGs was Brno and BrnoJUG. I presented Jakarta EE Meets AI here as well. As usual, this presentation triggers questions, comments, and discussions that continued over food and drinks afterwards. The event was located at the Faculty of Informatics at...

Prague JUG 2024

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 02:40 by Ivar Grimstad
Yesterday I was in Prague and spoke at the Prague Java User Group (CZJUG Prague). It was hosted at the university. Actually the university where Apache NetBeans was initially created. Unfortunately, I forgot that and ran my demos in IDEA and not in NetBeans (Shame on me, but since Jetbrains...

Hashtag Jakarta EE #255

Sunday, November 17, 2024 - 05:59 by Ivar Grimstad
Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week, I was on a small Italian JUG Tour, visiting the Java User Groups in Milan and Turin. You can read about the events in my blog posts about JUG Milano and JUG Torino. Next week, I will...

JUG Torino 2024

Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 04:27 by Ivar Grimstad
After speaking at JUG Milano on Monday in Milan, the trip continued to Turin and JUG Torino on Tuesday. Rosaria joined me at this event as well, and both of us updated our slides and tweaked the presentations. Rosaria presented SKILLAB, which analyses the skills associated with Open Source. You...

JUG Milano 2024

Wednesday, November 13, 2024 - 04:27 by Ivar Grimstad
On Monday, I visited JUG Milano together with my colleague Rosaria Rossini. She did a short talk about soft and hard skills needed for Open Source titled Java & Skills: a research activities in research@eclipse. After that, I did a talk titled Jakarta EE Meets AI where I show different...

Hashtag Jakarta EE #254

Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 05:59 by Ivar Grimstad
Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifty-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am in the middle of a trip across Europe that started at DevCon in in Bucharest, Rumania and continued to SFSCon in Bolzano, Italy. Right now, I am on my way to Milan and Turin to talk at...

SFSCON 2024

Saturday, November 9, 2024 - 08:04 by Ivar Grimstad
This was the 24th edition of the South Tyrol Free Software Conference (SFSCON) in Bolzano. I is a free event that attracts visitors mostly from Northern Italy, Austria and Switzerland. This year, there were about 1000 registered attendees. All the sessions at the conference are 15-minute long lighting talks happening...