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 - June 28th, 2022

Engineering | June 28, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this from the Big Apple, New York City! I'm here for the SpringOne Tour 2022 NYC event. This is my first time back in New York City since before the pandemic and it has been so much fun. I've been catching up with people I've not seen in years. I even accidentally bumped into people I had no idea was going to also be in town at the same time as I was. New York City is like a magnet for fun, and for fun people. Anyway, we've got a lot of stuff to get to this roundup, so let's dive right into it.

Also: if you're just reading this, today - the 28th of June - is the last day to submit to SpringOne 2022, being held in my…

Today is the last day to submit to the SpringOne 2022 Call For Papers!

Engineering | June 28, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! This year, SpringOne is back in person, and being held in my hometown of San Francisco, California, December 6th-8th. (Have you registered?) and today (June 28th, 2022) is the last day to submit to the Call For Papers! If you have a good idea or story you want to share, submit today!

Either way, I hope to see you in December in San Francisco, a city so famous for its foggy nightscapes that I think it's fair to say we are the original cloud natives!

Spring Tips: Learn Spring for GraphQL (the last two episodes: parts 7 and 8)

Engineering | June 23, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In thi^^^ these installments, we continue our series introducing the Spring for GraphQL project. This series features Spring for GraphQL lead Rossen Stoyanchev (@rstoya05) - whose work you may know from basically everything in the wide and wonderful world of Springdom having to do with the web (HTTP, RSocket, WebSockets, GraphQL, JSF, MVC, etc) - and GraphQL Java engine founder and lead Andi Marek (@andimarek) and of course yours truly, Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long (@starbuxman). It provides an in-depth look at all things Spring for GraphQL.

This week I'm publishing two…

This Week in Spring - June 21st, 2022

Engineering | June 21, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? It's been a hot minute since we last chatted. I was in Germany this time last week. Now, I'm back in beautiful San Francisco. Today the weather will climb to a monumental 84 F! That's very unusual, for any time of the year, here in San Francisco. Most places here in San Francisco don't have air conditioning. Some have heating. I bought a brand new condo in 2014 and it didn't have air conditioning. You just open the window. I am privileged enough that I have air conditioning today, of course. I mention all this…

This Week in Spring - June 14th, 2022

Engineering | June 14, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've just arrived in beautiful Berlin, Germany, for the forthcoming We Are Developers show with more than five thousand attendees. I was in Toronto, Canada, for the epic SpringOne Tour installment there. I've also had the privilege of taking these last two trips with my daughter, Kimly. She's on summer break from school. It's made the long miserable hours in economy bearable, and something for which I couldn't be more grateful. I'm also looking forward to being at the upcoming SpringOne Tour installment in New York City…

Spring Tips: Learn Spring for GraphQL (parts 5 and 6 of an ongoing series)

Engineering | June 14, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In thi^^^ these installments, we continue our series introducing the Spring for GraphQL project. This series features Spring for GraphQL lead Rossen Stoyanchev (@rstoya05) - whose work you may know from basically everything in the wide and wonderful world of Springdom having to do with the web (HTTP, RSocket, WebSockets, GraphQL, JSF, MVC, etc) - and GraphQL Java engine founder and lead Andi Marek (@andimarek) and of course yours truly, Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long (@starbuxman). It provides an in-depth look at all things Spring for GraphQL.

This week I'm publishing two…

Spring Tips: Learn Spring for GraphQL (parts 3 and 4 of an ongoing series)

Engineering | June 10, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In thi^^^ these installments, we continue our series introducing the Spring for GraphQL project. This series features Spring for GraphQL lead Rossen Stoyanchev (@rstoya05) - whose work you may know from basically everything in the wide and wonderful world of Springdom having to do with the web (HTTP, RSocket, WebSockets, GraphQL, JSF, MVC, etc) - and GraphQL Java engine founder and lead Andi Marek (@andimarek) and of course yours truly, Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long (@starbuxman). It provides an in-depth look at all things Spring for GraphQL.

This week I'm publishing two…

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