Ivar Grimstad's blog

It was a pleasure to be able to speak at the Ottawa JUG yesterday. This was their third meetup since they did a reboot of the group after the pandemic. IBM Canada hosted us at their offices in Ottawa, as well as provided catering in the form of pizzas, salads...

JakartaOne Livestream 2023 was the fifth edition of the conference. The setup of Studio Jakarta EE has improved year-for-year, and now closely resembles a professional TV studio. After the seemingly unavoidable network issues at the beginning, everything worked flawlessly. It is so much fun getting together for a production like...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Right now, I’m on my way to Canada for JakartaOne Livestream 2023. In addition, I will also speak at the Ottawa Java User Group and the Toronto Java User Group. It’s kind of a small Canadian tour to end...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week I spoke at Javaforum Malmö and JCON WORLD ONLINE 2023. It was amazing to see so many people showing up at Javaforum Malmö (the Malmö Java User Group) as it was our first event in two years...

Kin of out of the blue, I was invited to speak at JCON WORLD ONLINE 2023. And not only a regular talk but the keynote of the EclipseStore Summit on the last day of the conference. It was kind of a last-minute thing and I didn’t have time to create...

It’s been a while since the last event with Javaforum Malmö. In fact, our last meetup was a little more than two years ago. I don’t have a good explanation for this other than that it has been two busy years with a lot of travel around the World. The...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! While I am in Canada In December I will visit the Java User Groups in Ottawa and Toronto. Check out the events here:– December 6 – Ottawa JUG– December 7 – Toronto JUG Before that, I will be speaking...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The discussions around a CDI-centric approach for Jakarta EE 11 continue in the Jakarta EE Platform project. One of the outcomes of this is a restructuring of the Jakarta CDI Project where a CDI EE integration specification will be...

Øredev is my local conference, and I can go by bike if the weather permits. But as everyone visiting Sweden in November knows, the weather is pretty volatile at this time of the year. This year, I did go by bike on Wednesday but had to resort to the bus...

J-FALL is the biggest Java conference in the Netherlands. The 2023 edition was the 20th edition and had 1800 attendees registered. It is impressive for a one-day conference! The conference is organized by NLJUG (Nederlandse Java User Group) and is free for members of the JUG. The venue for the...