...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 everyb…

It's my pleasure to announce that I will be speaking at next years Jfokus again! Jfokus is the largest annual conference for everyone w…

A short information for my German audience. My latest article was published today. It is about the Adopt-a-JSR program and describes all th…

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…

Have you heard about jClarity? This is a new start-up with some great ideas and solutions around Java Performance. You probably know the te…

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 …

Short head ups, that I am speaking at the Oracle Developer Day happening during the OOP 2013 happening from 21st to 25th January 2013 Munic…

You all know about the Java Community Process (JCP), don't you? The JCP is the mechanism for developing standard technical specificati…

This has been an exciting week. After leaving JavaOne this was the next conference on my schedule. Somehow insane given the fact, that I ha…

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 i…

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, 200…

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…

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&quo…

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 Ja…

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 doab…