Ivar Grimstad's blog

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of presenting at the Berlin-Brandenburg Java User Group. The event was conveniently located near Berlin Hauptbahnhof. The around 25 attendees got to see the premiere of a brand new talk I have prepared for Spring I/O next week. The talk is titled Why Spring Matters...

I’ll let you in on a little secret about how to increase your chances of getting accepted to speak at a conference. It is as simple as this: Submit Early! Most conferences either accept talks on a rolling basis or have an expressed early-bird acceptance. Since most speakers tend to...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and twenty-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It was a busy week for me with two conferences back-to-back. First out was JCON Europe 2024 in Cologne, Germany followed by GeeCON 2024 in Kraków, Poland. Both these conferences are very well organized and excellent for networking, and...

My visit to beautiful Kraków for GeeCON 2024 was a pretty short one since it was the second conference I spoke at in two days. And I wasn’t the only speaker taking the route between Köln and Kraków, or the other way around. That’s how it is during conference season...

JCON Europe is a four-day Java conference attracting speakers from all over the World and Java developers from all over Germany. The venue is a cinema complex located centrally in Cologne (Köln), Germany. This year, Eclipse Foundation had a booth at a very prominent location where the Java-related working groups...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and twenty-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am speaking at two conferences in the upcoming week. First out is JCON Europe in Cologne, Germany where I am talking about how Jakarta EE 11 can boost your performance and developer productivity. Come to this session to...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and twenty-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It is May already! It feels like 2024 is just flying by. Those of you following these updates the last couple of weeks may have noticed a fair amount of specifications lingering in the “About to start” state...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and twenty-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week I was in India speaking at GIDS. It is a great conference that I keep returning to. For the next month, I will be touring conferences in Europe where I will be speaking at JCON Europe, GeeCON...

My fifth time speaking at GIDS was just as good as the previous ones. The conference has an amazing lineup of high-profile speakers, so it is a great honor to be among them. This year, the conference had 5400 attendees spread over four days with five parallel tracks. I had...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and twenty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I will be in the air on my way to India for my fifth appearance at GIDS when this post is published. I look forward to meeting the Indian Java community again! Milestone 2 of Jakarta EE 11 has...