...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…
Continue ReadingIt'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…

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…

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…
Continue ReadingHave 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…

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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