It's been a while… for the Amsterdam Java Meetup that is. I've been traveling a lot and haven't been able to organize another meetup past quarter. But here we go again: the (almost) quarterly Amsterdam Java Meetup with free drinks (or at least, the first few rounds) will be hosted in grand-cafe de Jaren in […]

It's time for the next Java Meetup again. I decided to postpone the 7th installment of this quarterly event in Amsterdam until right after summer, because most people here in The Netherlands take a couple of weeks off in August or so.
I've looked at our internal schedules and it seems September 21st is the only […]

As promised to everyone in my sessions, here are all the code samples that I presented during the conference.
Concurrency and Spring
JMX
Dynamic Languages
Slides will be available from the SpringOne web site.

Last week at SpringOne, Alef and I gave a talk on dealing with complex applications using Spring. Complexity in this case was considered both at the structural and dynamic level. As for the structural part of the talk, I covered that one in my previous blog posting. The dynamic part explained some possible solutions to […]

Doing it again
It’s already over 2 years since the idea to launch a European conference dedicated to the ever-growing Spring community was first discussed. After having announced the first (2006) edition of SpringOne at JavaPolis 2005, over 400 people signed up for the conference – over 20% more than we anticipated. SpringOne 2006 was a […]

When Sun scheduled my JavaOne 2007 session on Spring Web Flow for Friday, the last day of the conference, I wasn't sure what to expect. I was honored to have been accepted again this year, but I wondered what I would see in terms of attendance presenting on the last day of the 4-day […]

Mark you calendars! In about two weeks, I'm hosting another Amsterdam Java Meetup; the quarterly event in the Netherlands where all people that have something to do with Java (but hey, we're friendly; .NET guys are welcome too!) can have a chat and a drink. No technical sessions, no presentations, no keynotes, just drinks and […]

Every so often I get to experience something pretty amazing about the popularity of Spring, Interface21, and our people.
Last night was one of those such moments. Rod spoke at the NY Java SIG in Manhattan. Long time NY Java SIG coordinator Frank Greco sent out an email announcing the Java SIG […]

Last month Rod Johnson presented at three Australian Spring User Group meetings a session entitled, "What's New and Cool in Spring 2.0". Rod mentioned during those meetings that I'd make his presentation available, so here it is.
There are some other recent presentations that people have also been emailing me about. In no particular order, here […]

These shots of our venue were taken yesterday (proximity to places like this is one of the perks of Interface21 having an office in Florida).

 
The Majestic Westin Diplomat

Complete with an infinity pool

A lazy river underneath

On beautiful beach-front property

We are […]