Ivar Grimstad's blog

Welcome to the third issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Most of this week was spent at the Eclipse Foundation office in Ottawa. It is great to have the opportunity to meet the people I work with daily in person once in a while. On Tuesday, January 14, there was an...

Welcome to the second issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week, I have been in Sandusky, Ohio for CodeMash. This awesome conference is organized by an Ohio Non-Profit Organization and is held at the Kalahari resort in Sandusky, Ohio. In addition to meeting a bunch of awesome people, I had...

For a while now, I have been thinking of posting more regular updates about stuff going on in the Jakarta EE community. Kind of what Josh Long does with his “This Week in Spring” series. Being a big fan of Josh and the work he is doing in the community...

It is time for my yearly summary of conferences and community activities. In addition to numerous local meetups and online events, I had the opportunity to speak at the following major developer conferences: Jfokus, Stockholm Devnexus, Atlanta ConFoo, Montreal JavaLand, Brühl JEEConf, Kiev QCon, São Paulo DevTalks, Bucharest Java Cloud...

The Jakarta EE Platform Project calls are open for participation from anyone. If you are not able to attend a call, you can always browse to the Meeting Minutes for an update on the current discussion topics and decisions. So, how do I get started with contributing to Jakarta EE...

It has been a lot of talk about processes in the Jakarta and MicroProfile community lately, so I just want to remind us all about this item from the Agile Manifesto. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. https://agilemanifesto.org/ That said, some process is needed. Especially for work with specifications...

It’s been a week since I started as the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at the Eclipse Foundation! As you may have noticed, I am involved in almost any committee around Jakarta EE and enterprise Java in general and my new role has some implications for these engagements. I have listed...

I am super excited to announce that October 1st, I will become the first Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at Eclipse Foundation! So, What’s new? Hasn’t this guy been doing this for years already? Well, yes, and no. My day job has always been working as a consultant even if I...