Temporal Activities as Spring Beans (an Addendum)

This is a quick little addendum to last week’s post on Spring and Temporal. In last week’s post I covered a range of different ways to use the Spring Framework with Temporal that included leveraging abstractions for making HTTP calls, and using the Spring Boot Maven plugin to build fat jars. But the topic that […]

Spring Boot and Temporal

I’m a Spring Boot fan And I am not alone. Spring is objectively the most popular Java framework out there, and in this year’s SpringOne keynote, Purnima Padmanabhan, the General Manager and VP of the VMware Tanzu division – the place where the biggest part of the Spring team lives – reported that 46% of enterprise […]

Upcoming Gluecon Talk

If you haven’t been to Gluecon, you should go. It’s a super techie conference in a stunning location. Warning, though, it’s higher than the mile high city, and you’ll seriously feel it when you are out for your morning run! Good stuff. Anyway, I keep wanting to link to my presentation but the way it’s […]

BYOTP?

Seriously?I was on a 4 hour flight today and was the first person in the lav. No TP. A search through the entire cabin turned up only the rolls already hanging in the other lavs. You must be joking! Isn’t TP as important to the flight as the snacks for purchase? I dare say even […]

WOW – Photojournalism at its best

I got there via a rather convoluted path (that I’ll spare you), and I cannot believe that I hadn’t seen this before but Chris Jordan is truly a talent and one with a strong social conscience to boot. Wow. His current work, called Running the Numbers: an American Self-Portrait, (not yet complete) is to produce […]

Beyond a standard

Earlier I posted on the existence of a blog that covers industry standards. I came to that site because I was trying to get a grasp of what was going on with ODF, my interest being more in the dynamics around the standard than in the standard itself. It’s been getting a lot of buzz, […]