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A Webapp Makeover with Spring 4 and Spring Boot
Posted by: Matt Raible on December 13, 2013
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A Webapp Makeover with Spring 4 and Spring Boot
Posted by: Matt Raible on December 12, 2013
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A Webapp Makeover with Spring 4 and Spring Boot
Posted by: Matt Raible on December 11, 2013
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Become an Influential Agile Leader, Toronto and Edinburgh
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on December 5, 2013
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How Many People Can You Manage as a Manager?
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on November 25, 2013
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What I Learned from Managing My First Self-Published Book Project, Part 1
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on November 18, 2013
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Serving jokes locally with Ratpack and MongoDB
Posted by: Kenneth Kousen on November 15, 2013
In two previous posts, I discussed applications I created that were simple client-side front ends for the Internet Chuck Norris Database (ICNDB), located at http://icndb.com. This post gives the details of the local server I created, using Groovy, MongoDB more »
What I Learned from Managing My First Self-Published Book Project, Part 2
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on November 10, 2013
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Hackergarten at Devoxx. Are you ready?
Posted by: Andres Almiray on November 7, 2013
We'll it's that time of the year when the Java community comes together in Antwerp for a week and get awesome stuff done. Now, as part of that awesome stuff we've got the 3rd edition of Hackergarten on Tour at Devoxx. What's that? more »
The Modern Java Web Developer Bootcamp at Devoxx
Posted by: Matt Raible on October 29, 2013
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Making Java Groovy: A Celebrity (Non-)Endorsement
Posted by: Kenneth Kousen on October 22, 2013
Several of my book author friends on the No Fluff, Just Stuff tour told me that writing a book would open doors for me. That doesn’t explain, though, why I seem to insist on climbing through windows. I mean, writing Making Java Groovy put me on the more »
Making Java Groovy, the Listicle
Posted by: Kenneth Kousen on October 16, 2013
[Note: I accidentally published this the first time before it was ready. It's updated now.] Unlike my previous posts about Making Java Groovy, this post concerns one of my Silly Marketing Ideas (SMI)*. more »
Why Cost is the Wrong Question for Evaluating Projects in Your Project Portfolio
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on October 14, 2013
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Carlos Ray and Spring’s RestTemplate
Posted by: Kenneth Kousen on October 9, 2013
Normally I prefer causing trouble to getting in trouble, but this time the temptation is just too great. In my last blog post, I described how I made an Android app that was a front-end on the ICNDB web site, the more »
Devoxx France: A Great Conference in a Magnificent City
Posted by: Matt Raible on October 4, 2013
Making Java Groovy: ratpack, MongoDB, and Chuck Norris
Posted by: Kenneth Kousen on October 2, 2013
Before I get to the good parts of this post (the technical content), let me take care of a few marketing issues. First, as I mentioned in more »
Is Offshoring Less Expensive? Exposing Another Management Myth
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on September 12, 2013
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Happy Birthday Griffon!
Posted by: Andres Almiray on September 11, 2013
Griffon just tuned 5 this past Tuesday (September 10th)! And what best way to celebrate than to make a release of the latest version: Griffon 1.4. more »
Reasons to attend JavaOne Codegarten
Posted by: Andres Almiray on September 6, 2013
Announced last week at the JavaOne blog, this year's JavaOne will run a new kind of event: the JavaOne Codegarten. What is a Codegarten? Well it's basically the same as Hackergarten but with a more "politically correct" name This means if you have previo more »
Trust, Agile Program Management, & Being Effective
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on August 29, 2013
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Comparing Teams Is Not Useful: Exposing Another Management Myth
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on August 19, 2013
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Tips for Making the Most of Your Agile 2013 Experience
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on August 4, 2013
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Griffon: Calling application methods from JavaScript
Posted by: Andres Almiray on July 12, 2013
Recently a question was raised at StackOverflow regarding the interaction of a Griffon based applet and JavaScript functions. Basically the question is: from JavaScript, how can I call methods on the applet, say a controller action? As it turns out the an more »
Organizing An Agile Program, Part 5: Measurements That Might Mean Something to a Program
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on July 11, 2013
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Categories, old and new, and status of Making Java Groovy
Posted by: Kenneth Kousen on July 10, 2013
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Organizing An Agile Program, Part 4: Start From the Teams and Work Up
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on July 1, 2013
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Video of Comparing JVM Web Frameworks from Devoxx France
Posted by: Matt Raible on June 24, 2013
Whenever I do a talk, I get requests for a recording of it. It's rare that recordings are made, but when they are, I like to share them. In M more »
Devoxx France: A Great Conference in a Magnificent City
Posted by: Matt Raible on June 24, 2013
Hiring Geeks That Fit Interview Posted on InfoQ
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on June 24, 2013
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Geekout 2013: what a blast!
Posted by: Andres Almiray on June 21, 2013
What happens at GeekOut stays in GeekOut … no wait, that's not true. What happens at GeekOut blows your mind! GeekOut stands out from other Java related conferences as it's an event organized by developers for developers. more »
Gr8conf EU 2013 at a glance
Posted by: Andres Almiray on May 29, 2013
Last week Copenhagen became the grooviest city in the world for a few days, as Gr8conf EU 2013 had it's fifth edition. Here's a quick report of what transpired during this awesome time. The trip began with a quick stop at the annual Groovy DevCon. more »
Management Myth 16: “I Know How Long the Work Should Take”
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on April 17, 2013
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Start Your Agile Project Right and Coaching Master Class in London, May 16 and 17, 2013
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on April 12, 2013
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Self Assessment Tool for Transitioning to Agile
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on April 11, 2013
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Devoxx France: A Great Conference in a Magnificent City
Posted by: Matt Raible on April 7, 2013
Happy 10 Year AppFuse!
Posted by: Matt Raible on April 5, 2013
10 years ago yesterday, I released the first version of AppFuse. It started with XDoclet generating ActionForms from POJOs and became very popular for Struts developers that wanted to more »
Devoxx France: A Great Conference in a Magnificent City
Posted by: Matt Raible on April 1, 2013
Devoxx France: A Great Conference in a Magnificent City
Posted by: Matt Raible on March 29, 2013
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Telecommuting, Hoteling, and Managing Product Development
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on March 28, 2013
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Upgrading Grails from 2.0 to 2.2
Posted by: Matt Raible on March 22, 2013
In preparation for my Grails vs. Play Smackdown at Devoxx France next week, I recently upgraded my Grails version of Happy Trails from Grails 2.0. more »
How do you choose web framework candidates to compare?
Posted by: Matt Raible on March 18, 2013
David Díaz Clavijo sent me an email a couple weeks ago asking me about comparing web frameworks. David is a computer engineering student at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) in the Canary Islands, Spain. His FYP (Final Year Project) is more »
Organizing an Agile Program, Part 3, Large Programs Demand Servant Leadership
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on March 18, 2013
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Managing Programs with Agile and Traditional Projects Posted
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on March 14, 2013
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AgileIndyConf Slides Posted: Agile Managers Essence of Leadership
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on March 13, 2013
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Integrating GWT into AppFuse
Posted by: Matt Raible on March 7, 2013
I've been interested in integrating GWT into AppFuse ever since I blogged about it 4 years ago. A few months after that post, I wrote about Enhancing Evite.com with GWT and Grails. more »
Organizing an Agile Program: Part 2, Networks for Managing Agile Programs
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on March 5, 2013
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Speaking at an AgileConnection Meetup Feb 28
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on February 26, 2013
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Organizing an Agile Program: Part 1, Introduction
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on February 25, 2013
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Interview About Pragmatic Ways to Manage Technical Debt
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on February 22, 2013
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Hiring Geeks That Fit is Available at the Pragmatic Bookshelf
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on February 21, 2013
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Java 6 End of Life
Posted by: Ken Sipe on February 19, 2013
It may be important to note for companies running on Java, that Java 6 (probably the most common JVM platform for most of my enterprise customers) will reach it's EOL this month, Feb 2013.Time to be moving to Java 7 if you haven't yet more »
Greach 2.0: a small report
Posted by: Andres Almiray on February 15, 2013
Greach 2.0 just took place the last weekend of January in Madrid. What's Greach you ask? more »
Where in the World is Griffon?
Posted by: Andres Almiray on February 15, 2013
Often times when presenting Griffon at conferences someone asks who's using it. My usual reply gravitates towards desktop application development not not being discussed as much as web and mobile however it's still very much alive. The Griffon Artifact Po more »
The Modern Java Web Developer and Java Web Security at Denver JUG
Posted by: Matt Raible on February 14, 2013
Last night, I had the pleasure of delivering two talks at the Denver Java User Group. The first talk, The Modern Java Web Developer, was inspired by the book titled The Well-Grounded J more »
Think Small: Five Tips for Agile Program Management Posted
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on February 12, 2013
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New Year Commitments
Posted by: Ken Sipe on February 7, 2013
Looking to recommit to this tech blog... more »
Switching AppFuse from MyFaces to PrimeFaces
Posted by: Matt Raible on February 6, 2013
When describing my bias against JSF back in November, I wrote: ... more »
AppFuse Light 2.2.1 Released!
Posted by: Matt Raible on January 24, 2013
In December, the AppFuse Team released 2.2.1. more »
Managing the Stream of Features in an Agile Program
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on January 24, 2013
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Hackergarten @ JFokus 2013
Posted by: Andres Almiray on January 23, 2013
Good news everyone! There will be a Hackergarten session at JFokus! What's Hackergarten? more »
Griffon: Resource Injection & Themes
Posted by: Andres Almiray on January 17, 2013
Some time ago I wrote about a quick experiment I made to figure out if Fuse could be used with Griffon. The results were promising however there were some implementation aspects that I didn't like too much Instances participating in injection had to be more »
Managing Programs With Agile and Traditional Projects
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on January 15, 2013
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Griffon 1.2.0 released
Posted by: Andres Almiray on January 14, 2013
In case you missed the big news, Griffon 1.2.0 was released last Friday! more »
What's the best way to compare JVM Web Frameworks?
Posted by: Matt Raible on January 14, 2013
I've been comparing web frameworks ever since 2004. It was the first time I'd ever proposed a talk for a conference. Apach more »
How to build a Shot-Ski
Posted by: Matt Raible on January 7, 2013
At this year's Java Posse Roundup, James Ward, Trish McGinity, Brad Kizzort and I embarked upon a mission to build a Shot-Ski. Actually, we decided to build two. We wanted to show all more »
Comparing Web Frameworks and HTML5 with Play Scala at Jfokus 2012
Posted by: Matt Raible on January 7, 2013
Stockholm seems a lot like Denver this time of year. Cold, snowy and beautiful. Trish and I arrived in Stockholm (Sweden) on Monday for the Jfokus confer more »
Would You Take A Pledge to Not Speak at All-Male Panels at Tech Conferences?
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on January 7, 2013
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