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It’s been official for a few days now, so I thought I could drop a public note about me joining SpringSource Germany (division of VMware) as Senior Consultant beginning March 1st this year. Time to look back on three exciting years at Synyx and an outlook of what’s about to come.
I joined Synyx almost exactly [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I just want to announce that I am going to speak about Hades at Devoxx and The Server Side Java Symposium this year. The TSSJS takes place in Prague (Czech Republic) from Oct. 27th to 28th whereas Devoxx will be held between Nov. 16th and  20th in Antwerp (Beligum). I am thrilled by the list [...]

The June issue of the German JavaMagzin features an article about Hades written by myself. I sketch out issues implementing persistence layers briefly and introduce solutions to these issues using Hades. Furthermore fellow developer Alexander Hanschke introduced Java User Group Mannheim in yet another article, too. Check out the current issue and get your copy.
Beyond [...]

Let me prodly announce version 0.5.0 of Hades. As our project home gives you the quick overview and access to the latest binaries, sources and documentation I want to use this post to elaborate a little bit on the changes in 0.5.0 as well as the future roadmap.
Streamlining of the Spring namespace
Version 0.5.0 one more [...]

The latest episode of the JavaPosse podcast presents a session of the this year’s JavaPosse roundup on Scala and application modularity. Although I attended the conference I did not attend this session, which is rather sad in retrospect as the attendees discuss a lot of things I also deal with.
As a note aside I want [...]