Josh Long

Josh Long

Josh (@starbuxman) is the Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal and a Java Champion. He's host of "A Bootiful Podcast" (https://soundcloud.com/a-bootiful-podcast), host of the "Spring Tips Videos" (http://bit.ly/spring-tips-playlist), co-author of 6+ books (http://joshlong.com/books.html), and instructor on 8+ Livelessons Training Videos (http://joshlong.com/livelessons.html)

Recent Blog posts by Josh Long

This Week in Spring - February 2nd, 2016

Engineering | February 02, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a busy week for all of us on the Spring team, as you're about to see! I've just finished my presentation at the epic DevNexus show and now I'm off to visit customers in Hartford and Los Angeles before making my way to the epic ConFoo conference in Montreal, Canada. If you're in the area, be sure to ping me and say hi! We've got a lot to cover, so let's get to it! Reactor project lead Stephane Maldini just announced Reactor 2.5: A Second Generation Reactive Foundation for the JVM. This is a huge part of our continued efforts to…

This Week in Spring - January 26th, 2016

Engineering | January 26, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! Here we are, already staring at the second month of the year and, boy!, are things getting exciting! I'm about to start hitting the road again and I'd love to talk to you and your organization if you're near any of the following places and events in February: Microchg Conf JFokus Devnexus Hatford, Connecticut (around 17/2/2016) Confoo Shanghai (around 26/2/2016) Anyway, without further ado, let's get into it! our own Paul Chapman chimes in on the updated courseware available for developers who want to learn about Spring there are (finally…

This Week in Spring - January 19th, 2016

Engineering | January 20, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! What a week it's been! Last week saw me visit St. Louis to speak to some customers and deliver a talk at a meetup with my pal Mark Heckler check out this post on using Spring Boot with the Wicket web framework Nice, quick post on using Spring Boot with MongoDB I love this post: it shows how to use Spring Cloud's Config Server with Groovy. Is that a big deal? NO! It's an incredibly tiny, concise, expressive deal! What a wollup! I hope you'll join my pal Kenny Bastani for a webinar as he looks at how to use Spring Boot and Neo4J to create…

This Week in Spring - January 12th, 2016

Engineering | January 13, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! Today, I spoke at the San Francisco JUG to a packed room and now I'm off to St. Louis for a day of customer meetings. Lots of great stuff to look at as we kick off the new year so let's get to it! Check out Spring Integration contributor Artem Bilan's post on the latest-and-greatest on Spring Integration including the debut of a new Spring Integration extension supporting zipping and unzipping of messages in flight. the EuregJUG Maas-Rhine published a post on its site about.. the site! Which is all Spring Boot. Check it out. Check out the…

This Week in Spring - January 5th, 2016 (5th Anniversary Edition!)

Engineering | January 06, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring and welcome back from what I hope was a restive, fun new year! This week, we mark the fifth anniversary of This Week in Spring which Adam Fitzgerald and I started (based on some discussion with Keith Donald in January 2011) fresh from the 2010 holidays. Since then I've done my level-headed best to publish it every week (no exceptions! no missed weeks!) before midnight in Hawaii on Tuesday, every week, no matter what timezone I find myself in for that week! The world's a big place, so from the perspective of someone sitting in, say, New…

This Year in Spring - December 29, 2015

Engineering | December 29, 2015 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring where, with 2016 just around the corner, we'll look at some interesting news from the last week and we'll take a moment to review another amazing year in the Spring and Pivotal ecosystem. Now let's look at an short-and-sweet list of the latest-and-greatest from the last week: Got a Amazon.com gift card burning a hole in your pocket from the holidays? Well, fret not, I've got just the thing for you! At long last, Spring legend Craig Walls' epic Spring Boot in Action is available! Get it while it's hot! GO GO GO! Netflix's Genie…

This Week in Spring - December 22, 2015

Engineering | December 22, 2015 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, many of us will be off for the Christmas holiday. If you celebrate, then let me wish you the Merriest of Christmases from our team. If you don't celebrate, we'll see you next week as we look at our annual This Year in Spring! and welcome 2016! Holiday or not, there's a lot of great stuff to read this week so let's get to it! If you're using Spring Cloud Eureka and Jersey you may run into issues because Eureka itself uses Jersey 1.x where as Spring Boot's Jersey support is based on Jersey 1. Read how Aleksandar Stoisavljevic…

This Week in Spring - December 15th, 2015

Engineering | December 16, 2015 | ...
Wow! It's December 15th, friends; many of us on this planet will soon celebrate a new year! Hopefully, you've done a better job than I have of getting all my new year's resolutions finished in time for 2016! If you haven't, at least catching up on the latest and greatest in the Pivotal community won't be insurmountable! Let's see what's happened this week.. Greg Turnquist's epic blog series on using Spring with React.js is now available online as a tutorial Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 3.0.6 which contains lots of great contributions and bug fixes from the…

This Week in Spring - December 8th, 2015

Engineering | December 08, 2015 | ...
Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Chicago speaking to customers and then it's off to Washington D.C., and New York City for Cloud Native meetups! I hope you'll consider joining us at either event! Time sure is flying! We're darned close to 2016! Anyway, as usual, lots to cover so let's get to it! I really like the looks of this Caffeine local cache. It uses a pretty interesting algorithm to ensure near optimal cache hits It already features a JSR 170 (JCache) integration which means using it could be as simple as configuring the JCache adapter along with…

This Week in Spring - December 1, 2015

Engineering | December 01, 2015 | ...
Wow! Can you believe we're already staring down 2016? Time sure flies! Remember, This Week in Spring was started the first week of 2011, so we'll soon mark the fifth anniversairry of TWiS! This week I'm in Shanghai, China, for the Cloud Foundry Summit Asia and then off to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, for the Rich Web Experience! If you're in either place, don't hesitate to reach me! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! Spring Boot co-founder and Spring framework contributor Phil Webb put up a really thoughtful post helping people looking at Spring (which has been around for…

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