Organizations need a way to make application delivery fast, predictable and secure and the agility provided by containers, such as docker, help developers realize this goal. For Java EE applications, this enables packaging of applications, the application ser…
Continue ReadingGoogle Summer of Code is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. It works with many open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund projects over a thr…
Continue ReadingEverybody knows JavaOne . It feels like, it's been there forever. And even if we had our ups and downs and the location isn't exactly what we want it to be and San Francisco is expensive and and and. It is the number one premium conference about all…
Continue ReadingWhat a great end to the week. JBoss EAP 6.4 was released and among a ton of technical enhancements and new features , the biggest is: Java 8 has been added to the list of supported configurations. And this includes the Oracle JDK and IBM JDK. Java SE 7 End…
Continue ReadingI was invited to join the vJUG and give a talk about Large Enterprise Java Architecture and as a follow-up I also had the chance to be among the first guests of the newly created Virtual JUG Podcast . Recording the Podcast with Hangouts, Audacity, Skype…
Continue ReadingNewest Docker 1.6 release was pushed yesterday. Normally, no reason to go crazy, but this time I think, it's worth a blog. Because, it finally contains the first Docker Client for Windows. If you hated having to ssh into your instance and having to do ev…

Paul and I are running the Virtual JBoss User Group and we aim for delivering interesting and high profile talks around all kinds of JBoss projects and technologies. I normally don't blog about every upcoming meeting, but let me highlight some, which I …
Continue ReadingDeveloper Interview time again. Not a Friday, but it was recorded on one. And because it is so awesome, I decided to push it out as soon as I can. Fellow Arquillian contributor Alex Soto ( @alexsotob ) found some time to briefly walk us through what Arqui…

You already know, that the RebelLabs team generates awesome content and you might have come across one of their surveys in the past. I occasionally tweet about them, but just recently they launched something which directly went down to my heart. What do …

All of my readers should know, that I am part of the organizing team behind JavaLand . We celebrated JavaLand just a short week ago and it was amazing to catch up with all of my peers from around the world and bring such an amazing event to Germany. One pa…

I had the pleasure to be invited to the virtual JUG yesterday. It is a big honor for many reasons: First of all, I am part of the vJUG board and second because it was my second time presenting to this great group of Java interested people. It is always a p…

Travelling has downsides. Especially when coming back to the office to catch up with all the tasks being actively postponed. One of them has been sitting here for too long: It took me a while to get this latest review for Packt Publishing out the door. But th…
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