...and I'm honored to have the opportunity to write a short recap of this great year at close to 5am in the Morning while mostly everybody in Germany is still asleep. It was an intense year. In terms of travel, conferences and even the business side of my…
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It's my pleasure to announce that I will be speaking at next years Jfokus again! Jfokus is the largest annual conference for everyone who works with Java in Sweden. The conference is arranged together with Javaforum Stockholm. Javaforum is a Swedish devel…
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A short information for my German audience. My latest article was published today. It is about the Adopt-a-JSR program and describes all the details and motivations behind it. Read it online free of charge in German on the heise.de/developer website. J…
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Work on Java EE 7 presses on under JSR 342. Things are shaping up nicely and Java EE 7 is now in the Early Draft Review stage. In beginning of November Oracle posted a little community survey about upcoming Java EE 7 features. Yesterday the results were publ…
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Have you heard about jClarity? This is a new start-up with some great ideas and solutions around Java Performance. You probably know the team behind that: Both London Java User Group leaders Ben Evans (CEO) and Martijn Verburg (CTO) joint forces with Mr. Perf…
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Have you ever wondered what it takes to get your Java EE up and running somewhere? I did. For years. Started with hosting my own, moved on to some hosting offerings and finally stumbled upon the PaaS movement. Honestly I didn't take all that too serious.…
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Short head ups, that I am speaking at the Oracle Developer Day happening during the OOP 2013 happening from 21st to 25th January 2013 Munich/Germany. I will hopefully be able to show you some of Oracle's Java Service Cloud offering and guide you through t…
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You all know about the Java Community Process (JCP), don't you? The JCP is the mechanism for developing standard technical specifications for Java technology. Anyone can register for the site and participate in reviewing and providing feedback for the J…
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This has been an exciting week. After leaving JavaOne this was the next conference on my schedule. Somehow insane given the fact, that I hardly had a chance to clear all the work that has been left over. Leaving for Devoxx on a Sunday was a good thing. No ru…
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Polyglot persistence has been in the news since some time now. Kicked off by the famous Fowler post from end 2011 I see more an more nice ideas coming up. Latest one was a company internal student project in which we used Scala as a backend persisting data i…
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It was known as " The Neverending Story ". The JSR kicked of 11 and a half year ago and passed the JSR Review Ballot on 06 Mar, 2001 . If you ever wondered what it takes to get a fancy low JSR number in the hundreds: That is the secret. Unlike in th…
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It is conference season for the " Heroes of Java " and this is a good time to publish another entry. This time I am celebrating the 20th edition of the series with Angelika Langer. Thanks for taking the time answering my questions! Angelika Langer…
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This has been in the inbox for far too long. I apologize for not being able to bring this out more timely but beside my "night-job" I also do have a day-job and a family. But this post shouldn't be about complaining but about a new book. Packt s…
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The year is nearing it's end and there are new speaking opportunities coming up still. Next chance for you to see me speak is at the Jayday which will happen on the 3rd of December in Munich in the Kongressgarten, Munich Germany . The JayDay Munich is …
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It always ends different than thought. I aimed at doing a blog-post per day for my recent San Francisco trip. But it simply wasn't doable. Far too many things going on in parallel and I didn't had a minute to spare during the week. Being back in Germa…
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