Beginning some time last year I started to have a closer look at conferences and their speakers. My main interest was to find out who was speaking how often. One conference was missing in this analysis because I really was not sure what can be published witho…
Continue ReadingHuge news yesterday: The voting for the JBoss Community Recognition Award has been closed and the final winner have been announced! And I won the documentation category! A big thank you goes out to everybody who voted for me. It's a real pleasure working…


German Article about Arquillian.
A short reminder for my German readers. Heise.de Developer Channel published an updated version of my Arquillian article from last year. It now covers the new features from 1.0.0-Final and also introduces you to use the Drone Extension with Selenium to do so…

Red Hat, Inc. and the JBoss Community today announced the 1.0.0.Final release of Arquillian , its award-winning testing platform built to run on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Arquillian substantially reduces the effort required to write and execute Java m…

Andy Lester posted the original guide about 14 Ways to Contribute to Open Source without Being a Programming Genius or a Rock Star back in March and I really liked the idea. And this is why I decided to adopt this post a bit and tell you how and what you cou…

Each year, the JBoss project leads are asked to nominate contributors that they feel have make significant and leading contributions to the JBoss.org Community over the past year. Now it’s that time again, and those nominations are now complete. Big news: I …

The Galleria Java EE 6 example app is growing . Today I am going to write about how to gracefully deal with errors. A lot has been done about user input validation already but there are still a lot of failure situations which are not handled but should be. I…
Continue ReadingTime to catch up with my " Heroes of Java " interview series. This is interview number 15 already and I am glad it is David this time. You might have read the name before. He is the Java EE hero in person. David Blevins is a founder of the Apac…
