Ivar Grimstad's blog

Open Community for Java, a part of OCX 2024, will bring Java enthusiasts, developers, community leaders, and influential thinkers to share insights, challenges, and successes in the Java ecosystem. The event will take place October 22-24 2024 in Mainz, Germany.  Open Community for Java is the ultimate gathering for those...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and forty-one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Summer is still around, and the refactoring work of the Jakarta EE Platform TCK moves on. According to the Jakarta EE TCK Project, they will soon be able to empirically derive a date for when the work can be...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and forty of Hashtag Jakarta EE! The work with Jakarta EE 11 continued while I was at JConf Dominicana, JCrete, and a short vacation thereafter. Since a couple of specification projects have published service releases to fix minor issues in their API artifacts or Java...

Attending JCrete has become a tradition for me. It is high up there among my favorite events and probably my favorite location. Whenever possible, I take some time off before or after the conference to explore the Island of Crete. Every day at JCrete starts with a morning run. You...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am taking a week off, so this will be a rather short update. Last week was the week of JCrete 2024. I will publish a blog post about this year’s edition as soon as I am home from...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I have just arrived back home from JConf Dominica 2024, and have a couple of hours to pack my bags before heading out again for JCrete 2024. Busy times for a developer advocate, but so incredibly great to be...

A Java conference in the Dominican Republic sounds too good to be true. Well, I can tell you that it is a thing, and it is awesome! JConf Dominicana, The Caribbean Java Technologies Conference is organized by Java Dominicano, the Dominican Java User Group. It is a one-day conference with...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-seven of Hashtag Jakarta EE! After a couple of weeks at home, I am going on the road again. First off is JConfDomincana, the Caribbean Java Technologies Conference organized by the Dominican Republic Java User Group, where I will host a workshop together with...

Welcome to issue number two hundred and thirty-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week I was speaking at Developer Week’24 in Nuremberg, Germany. That was my last conference of the European conference season before summer. This year, there will be a couple of conferences during the summer before the fall season...

Developer Week is a four-day conference that takes place in Nuremberg, Germany. As the name implies, it is a developer conference where Java is a track among the other track topics. I spoke at the conference for the first time in 2017, and it feels like the Java track has...