Ivar Grimstad's blog

Directly after GOTO Amsterdam 2023 ended, I headed to the IKEA offices in Amsterdam with Geertjan and Geerit to speak at the Amsterdam JUG. We had a great walk through Amsterdam with Geertjan as our tour guide. The 60 to 70 attendees were served Swedish meatballs (we were hosted by...

GOTO Amsterdam 2023 was a really great experience! It was my first time speaking at a GOTO conference. In addition to Amsterdam, the GOTO conferences are organized in Chicago, Aarhus, and Copenhagen. The venue, Beurs van Berlage is absolutely stunning. And the food is in the top tier of conference...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and eighty-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week’s update on the current status of the plan reviews for specifications targeting Jakarta EE 11 shows that there are now three approved plans, four on ballot, and nine ready for ballot (Snapshot from Sunday, June 25, 2023)...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and eighty-one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The scope of Jakarta EE 11 is taking shape. Here is an update on the current status of the plan reviews for specifications targeting Jakarta EE 11 (Snapshot from Sunday, June 18, 2023): Plan ApprovedJakarta Data 1.0Jakarta NoSQL 1.0Jakarta...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and eighty of Hashtag Jakarta EE! In last week’s Hashtag Jakarta EE, I listed all specifications planning an update for Jakarta EE 11. Among these, three of them are currently not part of the Platform. These independent component specifications, Jakarta Data 1.0, Jakarta NoSQL 1.0...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and seventy-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Planning for Jakarta EE 11 continues. There was a rush of requests for plan review submitted this week. At the moment, the specifications that are planning an update for Jakarta EE 11 are: Jakarta Authentication 3.1Jakarta Authorization 3.0Jakarta Concurrency...

JPrime is a very friendly conference that is a pleasure to speak at. This year it attracted around 1250 attendees, and with two parallel tracks, all speakers get a decent crown in their presentations. The venue is great, with an outdoor area to escape the crowds in the exhibition area...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and seventy-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The due date for submitting plan reviews for specifications that are candidates for Jakarta EE 11 is May 30. And that date is fast approaching! The pull requests for those that are ready are labeled as Plan Review in...

This was my second time speaking at Infoshare in Gdańsk, Poland. The conference is pretty huge. Rumor has it they were expecting more than 6500 participants over two days, and the exhibition floor was absolutely massive! With a focus on startups, investors, marketers, and the like, the audience on the...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and seventy-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It is only a little over a week until the plan reviews are due for the component specifications. You can check out the content of the reviews in the pull requests labeled Plan Review in the Jakarta EE Specification...