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 - July 28th, 2020

Engineering | July 28, 2020 | ...

This Week in Spring - July 21, 2020

Engineering | July 21, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to yet another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doing? Good, I hope!

I've just finished recording two epic episodes of a Bootiful Podcast that'll be streaming to ears near you in the not-too-distant future. I can not wait.

I'm also super excited: tomorrow I'll be hosting the Reactive Spring and Spring Tips-themed edition of SpringOne Tour. Do not miss this!

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We've got a ton of stuff to get into this week, so let's begin.

This Week in Spring - July 14th, 2020

Engineering | July 14, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! How're things? Good? Good. I just finished (virtually) presenting for the always-lovely London Java Community this morning. We spoke about Kotlin and Spring and things. It was good. Thank you so much for having me LJC! I also kicked off the epic JetBrains Java Day Online event last Friday. That was a ton of fun! Thank you Jetbrains. I finally, finally, put some elbow grease into automating a listing of some my activity and so now whenever I publish a new Spring Tips video, a new A Bootiful Podcast podcast, or commit to a new public appearance, I'll have information here on my…

This Week in Spring - July 7th, 2020

Engineering | July 07, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! What a crazy week it's been! How are you? I hope you're safe, healthy, happy.

I'll be speaking later today (Tuesday) at the Accento Digital conference and at the Jetbrains Java Day online event on the 10th (Friday). Both of these should be accessible from EMEA and APJ timezones. I look forward to seeing you there!

We've got a ton of good stuff to get to this week so let's get to it!

This Week in Spring - June 30th, 2020

Engineering | July 01, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! What a wonderful week it's been and it's only Tuesday! I spoke to folks in Switzerland on Monday, had a few awesome meetings with folks later, then today spoke to folks in Germany in the morning and then folks in APJ (Singapore, mostly) in the evening. And tomorrow, I'm speaking at the JPoint virtual conference about Bootiful Kotlin. I'd love to see you there!

Now then, we've got a ton of things to look at this roundup so let's get to it!

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