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

A Bootiful Podcast: Oleg Zhurakousky

Engineering | February 01, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Oleg Zhurakousky, lead of the Spring Cloud Stream project, an application integration and messaging wonk, and a prolific contributor to Spring Integration. Oleg also has the dubious honor of being one of my oldest friends on the Spring team - poor guy! Twitter: @z_oleg Twitter: @SpringCloud

This Week in Spring - January 29th, 2019

Engineering | January 29, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! Can you believe we're already staring down February?? I'm still shaking off the vacation feels from the holiday break. I'm at the airport, SFO, a few minutes after midnite in PST, waiting to board for my flight to Houston, a connection en route to Charlotte, North Carolina, for the epic SpringOne Tour event - the first of a brand new year! I look forward to seeing y'all there! Anyway, we've got tons to get to so let's! Spring Tools 4.1.1 released - this new release is packed with tons of features, don't miss it! LISTEN: in this latest installment of my podcast, A Bootiful…

This Week in Spring - January 22nd, 2019

Engineering | January 22, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm off to pleasant Pittsburgh, PA to speak at, among other places, DICK's Sporting Goods. Join me! Now that my entire six part series introducing how to use Spring Boot with Microsoft Azure just concluded, with the last parts being released in this last week, I wanted to give you the whole thread here for your consumption. Bootiful Azure: Taking Your First Steps with Microsoft Azure (1/6) Bootiful Azure: SQL-based data access with Microsoft SQL Server (2/6) Bootiful Azure: Global Scale Data Access with…

Bootiful Azure: To Production (6/6)

Engineering | January 21, 2019 | ...
This is part 6 of a 6 part series, with new posts Mondays and Thursdays, introducing Microsoft Azure for Spring developers. I couldn't have put this together without input from Microsoft's Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Yitao Dong, Bruno Borges, Brian Benz and Theresa Nguyen. You can find the code for this series on Github. Hit me up on Twitter (@starbuxman) as you're reading the installments with any feedback or questions. You can also learn more about Microsoft Azure in my Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive) installment, Bootiful Azure Here are all the installments: Bootiful Azure: Taking Your First…

Bootiful Azure: Object Storage Service (5/6)

Engineering | January 17, 2019 | ...
This is part 5 of a 6 part series, with new posts Mondays and Thursdays, introducing Microsoft Azure for Spring developers. I couldn't have put this together without input from Microsoft's Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Yitao Dong, Bruno Borges, Brian Benz and Theresa Nguyen. You can find the code for this series on Github. Hit me up on Twitter (@starbuxman) as you're reading the installments with any feedback or questions. You can also learn more about Microsoft Azure in my Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive) installment, Bootiful Azure Here are all the installments: Bootiful Azure: Taking Your First…

Spring Tips: JavaFX

Engineering | January 16, 2019 | ...
Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips, we look at how to integrate Spring with JavaFX, a UI framework that supports building rich desktop applications. speaker: Josh Long

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