Hashtag Jakarta EE #256
Hashtag Jakarta EE #256 Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifty-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I visited Czechia on a min-tour of a couple of Czech Java User Groups. I spoke at Prague JUG on Tuesday and Brno JUG on Wednesday. In the upcomi...
Brno JUG 2024
Brno JUG 2024 The second, and last, stop on this mini-Tour of Czech JUGs was Brno and BrnoJUG. I presented Jakarta EE Meets AI here as well. As usual, this presentation triggers questions, comments, and discussions that continued over food and drinks a...
The Cyber Resilience Act is Here
The Cyber Resilience Act is Here IntroductionWith the recent publication of the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) in the EU official journal, a 3 year race now begins for compliance by the global technology industry. This legislation sets new cybersecu...
Prague JUG 2024
Prague JUG 2024 Yesterday I was in Prague and spoke at the Prague Java User Group (CZJUG Prague). It was hosted at the university. Actually the university where Apache NetBeans was initially created. Unfortunately, I forgot that and ran my demos in IDE...
The Draghi Report, SDVs, and Open Source – A TL;DR
The Draghi Report, SDVs, and Open Source – A TL;DR Main Takeaways from the Chapter “Automotive” In September 2024, the European Commission published a paper titled The future of European competitiveness authored by former ECB president Mario D...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #255
Hashtag Jakarta EE #255 Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week, I was on a small Italian JUG Tour, visiting the Java User Groups in Milan and Turin. You can read about the events in my blog posts about JUG ...
JUG Torino 2024
JUG Torino 2024 After speaking at JUG Milano on Monday in Milan, the trip continued to Turin and JUG Torino on Tuesday. Rosaria joined me at this event as well, and both of us updated our slides and tweaked the presentations. Rosaria presented SKILLAB,...
JUG Milano 2024
JUG Milano 2024 On Monday, I visited JUG Milano together with my colleague Rosaria Rossini. She did a short talk about soft and hard skills needed for Open Source titled Java & Skills: a research activities in research@eclipse. After that, I did a talk...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #254
Hashtag Jakarta EE #254 Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifty-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am in the middle of a trip across Europe that started at DevCon in in Bucharest, Rumania and continued to SFSCon in Bolzano, Italy. Right now, I am on ...
SFSCON 2024
SFSCON 2024 This was the 24th edition of the South Tyrol Free Software Conference (SFSCON) in Bolzano. I is a free event that attracts visitors mostly from Northern Italy, Austria and Switzerland. This year, there were about 1000 registered attendees....
DevCon 2024
DevCon 2024 I have been to Bucharest several times speaking at various conferences. Devcon was a new experience, even if it is organized by the same team as some of the other ones I have spoken at. It is a two day conference with multiple tracks, or st...
JCP EC Elections 2024
JCP EC Elections 2024 The election for the JCP Executive Committee started today! All JCP Members eligible to vote have received an e-mail with voting instructions. Don’t wait – cast your vote today! The ballot will close at 11:59 PM PST on Novembe...
Eclipse Cloud DevTools Digest - Q3, 2024
Eclipse Cloud DevTools Digest - Q3, 2024 Theia IDE Adds AI Capability with Theia AI!In a prolific series of articles, Jonas, Maximilian, and Philip of EclipseSource, announced and documented Theia AI. Theia AI simplifies developing AI-powered tools and...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #253
Hashtag Jakarta EE #253 Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifty-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I had six days at home in October. November will give me thirteen days at home, and no long-haul flights planned. But there will still be quite a bit of...
Open Community Experience 2024 Recap
Open Community Experience 2024 Recap Setting the Stage for Open Source Collaboration Across IndustriesOn 22-24 October in Mainz, Germany, the Eclipse Foundation’s new flagship conference, Open Community Experience (OCX), gathered 430 open source ent...
Behind the Scenes of OCX: Crafting a Unified Visual Identity
Behind the Scenes of OCX: Crafting a Unified Visual Identity Behind the Scenes of OCX: Crafting a Unified Visual Identity Last week, the Eclipse Foundation community came together for the first ever Open Community Experience (OCX). This new flagship ...
New Feature in Open VSX: Deprecating Extensions
New Feature in Open VSX: Deprecating Extensions Open VSX, the only open source, vendor-neutral registry for VS Code extensions, now includes support for deprecating extensions—adding flexibility and transparency for both publishers and users. Previou...
