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Thinking About #NoEstimates?
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on April 24, 2015
I have a new article up on agileconnection.com called The Case for #NoEstimates. The idea is to produce value instead of spending time estimating. more »
Thinking About Estimation
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on April 21, 2015
I have an article up on agileconnection.com. It’s called How Do Your Estimates Provide Value? more »
Managing a Java EE Application Server with Chef
Posted by: Reza Rahman on April 21, 2015
Chef is a popular open source infrastructure automation framework that has been popularized with the whole DevOps movement. In a nutshell, Chef has the notion of Recipe and Cookbook. A Recipe is written using a Ruby based DSL to describe how to install an more »
A Directory for CDI Plugins
Posted by: Reza Rahman on April 20, 2015
One of the key goals of CDI was to significantly improve Java EE platform extensibility at the core component level. Generic dependency injection alone goes a long way in making it fairly easy to integrate third-party components and libraries. CDI goes mu more »
Java EE 7/Bean Validation Adoption at Harvard University
Posted by: Reza Rahman on April 17, 2015
One of the most important things to do at this stage of the life-cycle of Java EE is highlight successful adoption stories. We have been doing just that for a long time through our adoption stories blog as well as JavaOne. JavaOne 2014 was particularly go more »
Groovy posts in other places
Posted by: Kenneth Kousen on April 16, 2015
Recently I’ve been writing about Groovy and Grails for my friends at Accelebrate. I do that because: They’re a great client They support what I do They pay me CASH MONEY The only problem is, whenever I post there, I don’t post here. I more »
JSON-P 1.1 (JSR 374) update: JSON Pointer & JSON Patch
Posted by: Reza Rahman on April 16, 2015
'Java API for JSON Processing 1.0' also known as JSON-P (JSR 353) is the standard JSON Processing API that was added in Java EE 7. JSON-P will be updated and that update (JSON-P 1. more »
Last Call to Submit to the JavaOne Java EE Track
Posted by: Reza Rahman on April 15, 2015
This is a first and last reminder from us to all of the folks out there that the JavaOne 2015 CFP closes on April 29 - just about two weeks from now. The procrastinator in you might be thinking two weeks is plenty of time. In reality if you haven't st more »
Java EE Security API (JSR 375) Update
Posted by: Reza Rahman on April 14, 2015
"If you don't vote you can't complain. Get involved." (David Blevins) From the current set of Java EE 8 JSRs, 'Java EE Security API' (JSR 375) is the latest one as it was only approved in December last year. more »
A Preview of Java EE @ GIDS 2015
Posted by: Reza Rahman on April 13, 2015
The Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS) 2015 will be held on April 21-24 in Bangalore, with a follow-on GIDS.Mini to be held on April 25 in Hyderabad. GIDS is very easily the largest and most significant developer event in South Asia. more »
Learning Opportunities for All
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on April 8, 2015
If you are not on my Pragmatic Manager email list, you might not know about these opportunities to explore several topics with me this month: An Estimation hangout with Marcus Blankenship this Friday, April 10, 2:30pm EDT. If you have questions, please em more »
Do You Have Questions About Estimation?
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on April 3, 2015
I am doing a google hangout with Marcus Blankenship on April 10. We’ll be talking about estimation and my new book, Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Cost or Schedule. The book is about ways you can estimate and explai more »
MVC 1.0 (JSR 371) Early Draft Review period has started!
Posted by: Reza Rahman on April 2, 2015
MVC 1.0 (JSR 371) formally known as the 'Model-View-Controller Specification' has just entered the Early Draft Review period. This is significant because it is the first Java EE 8 specification to enter this phase. more »
Java EE @ ConFoo Canada 2015
Posted by: Reza Rahman on April 1, 2015
ConFoo 2015 took place 16-20 February in Montreal, Canada. To my knowledge it is the largest developer conference north of the border. The conference has roots in PHP, but has been making an effort to better attract a Java audience hence it was important more »
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