I'm here to say that - while Portland, Oregon, is MANY things - it's nowhere near "living in hell".

Demoing the brilliance of JSpecify and NullAway support in IntelliJ IDEA with #Spring, #Java and #Kotlin at #SpringOne — thanks to Andrei Kogun and @dashaun.com !
Read more in the InteliJ IDEA 2025.2 What’s New: jb.gg/uq8our

Where is this specifically?

the next Portland Java User Group meeting is Tuesday April 15th

This month’s topic is Spring Boot

Our speaker is @starbuxman.joshlong.com

RSVP

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the next Portland Java User Group meeting is on Tuesday March 25th #pdxtech

This month's topic is: Destination: deployment!

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One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?

They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.

That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.

The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff

I have published a new blog post to explain what benefits Spring developers can expect from the next-level Spring null safety support based on JSpecify and NullAway. spring.io/blog/2025/03...

It will be available for general consumption in the upcoming Spring major version at the end of the year.

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

To my software developer network, this was just a great watch. #ThePrimeTimeagen It helps challenges biases you may have developed over the years.

youtu.be/JWKadu0ks20?...

the next Portland Java User Group meeting is on Tuesday February 18th

This month’s topic is Netty

RSVP:

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Just a reminder that it is not too late to register and join us tomorrow as we take a deep dive into #OpenRewrite!

www.meetup.com/PDXJUG/event...

This will go beyond "framework migrations" and cover recipe development & testing!

#Java #JUG #Portland

the next Portland Java User Group meeting is on Tuesday January 21st

This month’s topic is OpenRewrite

RSVP: www.meetup.com/pdxjug/event...

If you are in the Portland Metro area and are interested in taking a deeper look at OpenRewrite, please join us! We will spend less time on pre-existing recipes and focusing on how to write your own recipes for code transformations and semantic search. #OpenRewrite #Java #Jug

If your build is slow, try Apache Maven Daemon (now also for Windows), which cuts the build time for the EclipseStore Storage project by half on my machine. In a multimodule project, your modules are built in parallel, which boots the build time enormously.

https://github.com/apache/maven-mvnd

Portland!? Beer?

tonight at NYJavaSIG: Amazon S3

@nyjavasig.bsky.social

Awesome #AssertJ: Using Our Own Assertions Class blog.mrhaki.com/2024/10/awes... #Java #Testing

If you want to have a say on Jackson 3.0.0 feature defaults, consider participating via github.com/FasterXML/ja... (5 things to vote on currently).

Or have a look even if just interested in knowing about likely changes.

Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.

And a link to the recording! youtu.be/zzXUcq1iZIs?...

A big thank you to @dashaun.com for making it out to Portland. A super fun talk on Spring Boot, OpenRewrite, and AI! Attendees walked away excited and inspired.

the next Portland Java User Group meeting is on Tuesday November 19th

This month's topic is Spring Boot and Spring AI with @dashaun.bsky.social

RSVP: www.meetup.com/pdxjug/event...