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Until 2016, every single PacktPub eBook including Digital Java EE 7 is available for just £4 (GBP) [$5 USD ]! This is a Packt Pub Special Offer! Merry Christmas   +PP+  

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A couple of fays again, on the Twitter sphere, I saw blog post by Sam Atkinson called Why I hate Spring. This blog entry was written well over a year ago in 2014, but then DZone actually picked up on it and published it. Atkinson is developer actually at the time of writing is travelling […]

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Digital Java EE 7 Course 2 Day Course 2016 Date: ( The dates on the first half of 2016) Venue: Milton Keynes Agenda: To Be Decided (TBD) Details: TBD ( I envision the course with reflect content from both of my books. This course will be more on the front-end of Java server side development.) […]

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Hi All My publisher, Packt Pubishing, has very kindly organised a 50% off sale promotion for my latest book Digital JavaEE 7 Web Application Development.     To take advantage of this fabulous offer, follow this link [opens a new tab on the Packt Pub offer web site]. Actually, the Thanksgiving sale is from the […]

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Shout outs This year at JavaOne 2015, these are the shout-outs, in no particular order: Victor Leonel Orozco Kota Fujita Pratik Patel Alexis Lopez Jorge Vargas Naoko Hamamoto Harold Ogle Heather Vancura Sooyol Yang Ivar Grimstad Shlomi Ben Haim Werner Keil Ixchel Ruiz and Andres Almiray Fred Simon Csaba Toth Jenny Heckler Mark Heckler Oscar […]

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This is the photo visitation of my blog around the JavaOne 2015 conference, which is the twentieth edition.   Java Leader’s breakfast exhibition in Sunady morning.   San Francisco, late autumn whatever your style.   Java Keynote at the Moscone Center   On User Group Sunday, Bruno Souza grabbed Java leaders, champions, including myself to […]

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We have just had the twentieth edition of JavaOne in San Francisco. This would be my twelfth attendance in unbroken series since 2004. What are the biggest lessons that potentially shed a light into the Java’s future. Modularisation struggle It has taken almost nine years from the first mention of modules at Java 2007, or […]

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By sheer luck, the magic of UPS managed to deliver a consignment of books on the morning of the very last day of the conference exposition. Where I was of sullen disposition, I had had my hopes dashed, suddenly there was resurgence of faith, when I saw the tracking numbers at 9:37Am and the said books delivery […]

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Okay. Maybe I am being over dramatic in the title. I do believe that Java, the ecosystem, the community, the virtual machine and the mother programming language will be around for a long time to come. What can deflect from it? Postulating in my hotel room with a lot time, in between adding finesse to […]

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I thought that I would put out some of my JavaOne 2015 journalistic blogging thoughts. The push to MODULES is in ernest. Mark Reinhold is asking for help to test the JDK 9 early releases. He want to ensure that Project Jigsaw is “done right” without breaking the guarantees of the Java platform: (developer) usability, […]

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In the future, you make your own or else somebody makes it for you. That’s my philosophy for things in life that you have control of. On the other hand, there are a lot of things that not in your control. It was General Eisenhower who said something about plans are useless, but planning is […]

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After so long, such a long time, I’m excited to announcement the availability of my second book Digital Java EE 7 Web Application Development. It is available from Packt Publishing.     These are the chapters and appendices: Chapter 1 Java EE 7 Platform for Digital Chapter 2 Java Server Faces Introduction Chapter 3 Building […]