New Year Commitments - No Fluff Just Stuff

New Year Commitments

Posted by: Ken Sipe on February 7, 2013

Looking to recommit to this tech blog... so what to expect from 2013

Conferences

  1. looking forward to a new year with NFJS
  2. Poland YAY!  love Poland!
  3. JavaZone 2013 in Oslo
  4. UberConf 2013
that's what is scheduled currently

Blog Posts

I'm going try to post more frequently... and probably on themed subjects... are couple that come to mind:
  1. Lessons from clients:)  
  2. Tech Review or highlight of components / frameworks
If you have suggestions... please post.

Currently looking at writing a book on Spock as well... so we will see.

Technical Nugget

if you haven't noticed... take a look at asciidoc and asciidoctor.   All my tech writings and book will be written in asciidoc this year :)  In addition to all readme files on github, thanks to the githubbers and Dan Allen!
Sweet!!

Predictions for the year

Java 8 release YAY!
Mobile security will become an issue
Asciidoc takes over as the preferred markup

Ken Sipe

About Ken Sipe

Ken is a distributed application engineer. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken's current focus is on containers, container orchestration, high scale micro-service design and continuous delivery systems.

Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS), and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.

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