Ivar Grimstad's blog

This was the 10th edition of Devoxx Morocco including the three pre-Devoxx-branded editions that were called JMaghreb. For me, it was my sixth visit to the conference, four times in Casablanca, once in Agadir, and this year in Taghazout. On Friday, I had my talk titled From Spring Boot 2...

My first time at an Apache Software Foundation event was a very pleasant experience. Community Over Code moves to different locations every year, and this year it was in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I would recommend visiting this lively city if you have the opportunity to it. Community Over Code 2023...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and ninety-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! It can be hard to track which day it is when traveling from conference to conference across time zones, so a fixed point like the weekly Hashtag Jakarta EE comes in handy occasionally. I am currently in Halifax, Nova...

The 20th edition of Devoxx Belgium is a wrap! As always, an amazing conference with exceptional speakers providing state-of-the-art content. I was so lucky to get two sessions and a BOF into this year’s edition. The first talk was a brand new one about what’s coming in Jakarta EE 11...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and ninety-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The details for a Milestone 1 release (M1) of Jakarta EE 11 were nailed down in this week’s Jakarta EE Platform call. After discussing who the target audience of an M1 is, we concluded that this release is...

Welcome to issue number one hundred and ninety-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Home again after a couple of busy weeks on the road. Read all about it in North America JUG Tour 2023. Now, I’ll be home for a week before my next trip which will be Devoxx Belgium. I can’t...

This was great fun! Five JUGs in five different cities in five days. Organizing such a trip takes a great deal of planning and coordination. Hats off to Gerrit for pulling that off! The JUGs we visited were: Central Ohio JUGGarden State JUGDetroit JUGOmaha JUGMontreal JUG Including IBM TechXchange in...

The fifth, and last, step of the North America JUG Tour 2023 was Montreal and Montreal JUG. We were a little worried about having a JUG Meetup on a Friday, but Montreal didn’t let us down. This was the biggest crowd on the tour. May have something with the free...

The fourth stop on our North America JUG Tour 2023 was Omaha and Omaha Java User Group. By now, we’re starting to get the hang of it. Gerrit started off with his talk about vulnerabilities in Java and the build chain in general. An important topic that just becomes more...

The third stop on the North America JUG Tour 2023 was Detroit and the Detroit Java User Group. Gerrit did the Jungle talk about all the available distributions of OpenJDK. It is a talk you really should attend if he is at a conference near you and you are wondering...