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: Spring Security engineer and OAuth slayer Joe Grandja

Engineering | March 15, 2019 | ...

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! This week Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Joe Grandja (@joegrandja) who, not coincidentally, just celebrated his third anniversary working on the Spring team! Joe has been instrumental in building Spring Security 5.x and its OAuth client and resource-server support.

Joe's team page Joe on Twitter Joe just celebrated his third year on the team!

This Week in Spring - March 12th, 2019

Engineering | March 13, 2019 | ...

Hi Spring fans! What a week! I'm in Seattle, Washington where I've been spending time with Pivotal partner Microsoft talking about all things Spring, Cloud Foundry and Azure, and then tonight I spoke at the Seattle Java User Group on Reactive Spring.

Tomorrow morning I'm off to jolie Montreal, Canada for the epic ConFoo conference. Are you going to be around? Say hi!.

Anyway, without further ado let's get to this week's roundup!

A Bootiful Podcast: Matt Raible and James Ward at Devnexus 2019

Engineering | March 08, 2019 | ...

Hi Spring fans! In this extra-long installment I talk with longtime friends and fellow developer advocates, Okta's Matt Raible and Google's James Ward. We talked about Java, Kotlin, Spring, cloud computing technologies, security, Go, paradigm changes, web frameworks past and present, Macromedia, Adobe, Scala, and a million more things! This was a ton of fun for me so I'm hoping you'll enjoy it too.

Google Developer Advocate James Ward on Twitter (@_jamesward) Okta Developer Advocate Matt Raible on Twitter (@mraible)

This Week in Spring - March 5th, 2019

Engineering | March 05, 2019 | ...

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I flew 14 hours to Tel Aviv, Israel. I then spent 28h on the ground visiting customers, visiting my friends at Codota, and then presenting at a packed house at the Israel Java User Group. Then I flew another 14 hours back to San Francisco, CA where I presented for a four-hour online course on using Kotlin with Spring Boot. Tonight I'll fly to Atlanta, GA for the incredible DevNexus conference where I'll be presenting (twice) with the good Dr. Venkat Subramaniam on Kotlin (and Spring) and more. Tomorrow, I'm doing a four…

This Week in Spring - February 26, 2019

Engineering | February 26, 2019 | ...

Hi Spring fans! What a week! This week I'm in San Francisco, CA; Columbus, OH (for the epic SpringOne Tour stop there), and then it's off to Tel Aviv, Israel for customer visits and an appearance at the Israel JUG. If you're around, then I'd love to connect!

Anyway, and as always, we've got tons to cover so let's get to it!

Spring Tips: Season 5 Recap

Engineering | February 20, 2019 | ...

Hi Spring fans! Can you believe it? We're at the end of yet another season - our fifth! - of Spring Tips! I wasn't sure at first (when we started down this journey a few years ago) that these videos would take off or become popular but it seems the Spring community's curiosity knows no bounds!

I try in every season to look at new technology (RSocket and R2DBC, eh, spring to mind..), and to introduce variations on themes (we looked at three projects that extend Spring Cloud to native IaaS-platforms this season!), and to introduce potentially niche but often appreciated topics (this season we…

This Week in Spring - February 19, 2019

Engineering | February 19, 2019 | ...

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! In the US, Monday was a public holiday so today, Tuesday, feels a bit like Monday and i was happily going through the Monday motions and then I got a reminder that I had to write this week's installment! Ooops! Thank goodness for technology.

I'm at San Francisco International Airport about to board a fight for the Washington DC edition of the SpringOne Tour. Are you going to be in Washington DC? Reach out and say hi! My direct messages on Twitter are correct, too

Then, it's off to Kansas City, KS/MO for, among other things, an appearance at the Kansas City JUG this…

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