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As I was just remembered on Twitter, my talk on Hades at Devoxx 2009 is now freely available to watch at Parleys.com. So watch it here or direcly at Parleys.

If you have worked with Spring 2.5 annotation based web MVC framework you know that it allows you to freely design you controller method signatures:
@RequestMapping(value = “users”, method = GET)
public String showUsers(Model model) {
model.addAttribute(“users”,
userManagement.getUsers());
return “users”;
}
As you can see we use a parameter of type Model that will [...]

This blog post will be the starting point of a series of posts regarding often neglected classes in Spring. There are two main reasons for me to write this series. First, I really would like to unveil a set of classes that deserve some deeper attention as they make developer’s life a lot easier inside [...]

I’ve just been calming down a little after almost two weeks of travelling conferences. Right after W-JAX one week ago in Munich, some colleagues and me took a trip to Antwerp to visit Devoxx 2009. I was supposed to give a talk on Hades on Monday what aligned perfectly to the factthat we released version [...]

Let me announce that as of yesterday Hades ships in its first stable version 1.0. As this of course marks an important milestone let me just briefly give an overview of the features Hades provides. I will start with the very basic features in this post and continue to elaborate on advanced ones in furthers [...]

In the last few days it I happened to two short discussions on Twitter with Adam Bien (not really a discussion) and Keith Donald (slightly more intesive) on distinct but yet somehow related topics regarding the use of annotations in Java.
Using the right tool for the job
Keith answered my following tweet i posted after revisiting [...]

Right now I’m sitting in the train back home from Düsseldorf to Mannheim. It’s been two exciting days at the GearConf, a conference centered around software development in teams. Thus the spectrum of talks ranged from rather process oriented ones to tool oriented ones.
Thursday began with a talk on whether a dayly release is really [...]

After I got started holding presentations at conferences at Devoxx last year, this autumn will get really packed with presentation dates. I will kick of the season at GearConf in Düsseldorf. On Thursday Oct. 1st I will speak about increasing developer productivity with Mylyn. During development of Hades Mylyn became an indispensable tool to get [...]