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 - December 13th, 2016

Engineering | December 13, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This year has flown so quickly by! Can you believe we're less than 19 days until 2017? I'm utterly stunned. I suppose I shouldn't be, though, given the breakneck speed of progress and new software releases from the Spring team and the community. What a good problem to have! This week, after returning from Australia early Sunday morning, I hacked with my buddy Josh McKenty, I spoke with my buddy Baruch at the San Francisco Java User Group on Monday, will speak with my buddy Matt Raible at the Denver Java User Group on Wednesday (don't…

This Week in Spring - December 6th, 2016

Engineering | December 06, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Brisbane, Australia, on the second leg of the YOW! conference circuit. If you're around, please say hi or find me when YOW! moves to Sydney in a few days. We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! If you're not up to date with JUnit 5.0 and Spring Framework, this is a must - see talk from Sam Brannen at Swiftmind good news! the webinar introducing CQRS with Axon and Spring Boot that Axon lead and founder Allard Buijze and I delivered is now online Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just announced Spring Integration…

This Week in Spring - November 29th, 2016

Engineering | November 29, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I can't believe how quickly this year has gone! This week I'm in Melbourne, Australia for the YOW! conference and then week it's off to Brisbane and then Sydney for the next editions of the same show. Australia is the furthest I've ever been from my 'native' timezone - so even though I always post This Week in Spring every Tuesday, I appreciate that it's still Monday for anybody west of Europe right now! Tonight, I'll join my pal, Intellij's Trisha Gee, and we'll be speaking at the Melbourne JVM User Group. I'm super excited to be here…

Spring Tips: Cloud Foundry

Engineering | November 23, 2016 | ...
Speaker: Josh Long https://www.twitter.com/starbuxman Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at Cloud Foundry, a an open-source cloud platform that's optimized for managing applications. To those of you in the US, happy Thanksgiving tomorrow!

This Week in Spring - November 21st, 2016

Engineering | November 22, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm.. home! It's Thanksgiving this week here in the states, after all. I am sure that I speak for the entire Pivotal team when I say that we are grateful for you, the most wonderful community on the planet. Thanks so much, and if you're celebrating Thanksgiving, then happy Thanksgiving to you! When you're finished with your meal - barely able to keep an eye open - I hope you'll find a comfy arm chair and take in some of the content in this week's roundup. the good Dr. David Syer doesn't always do view templating, but when he does…

This Week in Spring - November 15th, 2016

Engineering | November 15, 2016 | ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Time sure is flying! We've got so much to get into this week. Can you believe we're staring down 2017? We've got so much to cover so let's get to it! I hope you'll join Axon-framework lead Allard Buijze and I tomorrow when we introduce how to build CQRS-centric applications with the Axon Framework and Spring Boot More SpringOne Platform 2016 talks are available, and if you're interested in how Spring and reactive programming are coming together you'll want to hear directly from Rossen about where the team is starting it's journey…

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