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I am the founder of Cloud Foundry, which provides automated, outsourced data center management for Java applications on Amazon EC2.
I am the founder of Cloud Tools, which is an open-source project for automating the deployment of Java and Grails applications on Amazon EC2.
I run a training and consulting company that helps organizations build better software faster and deploy it on the cloud.
We provide a variety of services including:
- Development - we can build your application for you
- Deployment - we can find a hosting partner or deploy your application on Amazon EC2
- Training classes for Spring, Hibernate and Acegi Security
- Jumpstarts to get your project off to the right start
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Cloud Foundry is now part of SpringSource
Wednesday, 19 August 2009 4:15 A GMT-08
I have some very exciting news to announce today. Cloud Foundry has been acquired by SpringSource and I am now a SpringSource employee.
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Upcoming talks on POJOs, Spring, Hibernate and Amazon EC2 in the Bay Area, New York and Philadelphia
Wednesday, 28 January 2009 10:31 A GMT-08
March is going to be a busy month. I'm giving talks on POJOs, Spring, Hibernate and Amazon EC2 in Santa Clara, New York and Philadelphia. And in February, I am holding a half-day class in Oakland on running Java and Grails applications on Amazon EC2.
Re: What the new $pringSource maintenance policy means to you
Tuesday, 23 September 2008 11:09 A GMT-08
I really have to respond to Craig Wall's assertion that not much has changed. In my opinion, however much you try to spin it, a lot has changed
Getting to know your application
Tuesday, 2 October 2007 6:30 A GMT-08
When I review a client's application I need to quickly understand and analyze a large of amount of code. Up until now I've relied on open source tools but I am now considering adding a commercial product to the arsenal.
POJOs in Action - Chinese edition now available!
Tuesday, 17 July 2007 7:49 A GMT-08
Late last week I was pleasantly surprised when some copies of the Chinese edition of POJOs in Action landed on my doorstep. Looking through it was somewhat disconcerting - I couldn't read the book yet it seemed strangely familiar!
Back home from the SpringOne conference
Wednesday, 27 June 2007 10:26 A GMT-08
Right now, I'm on United's London to San Francisco flight with about two hours to go before we land. I'm looking forward to seeing my family after spending a week in Europe, mainly in Antwerp, Belgium at the SpringOne conference . At SpringOne I
Arid POJOs: Customizable convention over configuration and dynamic finder methods
Monday, 21 May 2007 7:49 A GMT-08
Wandering around JavaOne gave me a chance to think more about what Arid POJOs offers. I came up with the term customizable convention over configuration or C2oC. I also extended Arid POJOs to implement dynamic finder methods.
Source code for my simplified XML-based dependency injection example
Wednesday, 2 May 2007 7:36 A GMT-08
If you would like to try out my custom Spring/XML namespace that uses reflection and AspectJ type patterns to generate bean definitions you can get the source code from here: http://code.google.com/p/aridpojos/If you are using Maven2 you can get it
Book signings at JavaOne: POJOs in Action and JavaServer Faces in Action
Friday, 27 April 2007 10:35 A GMT-08
This year at JavaOne I will be doing a book signing at 4pm on Thursday, May 10th. Kito Mann, author of JavaServer Faces in Action will also be there. It's right after our second talk on building applications with JSF, Spring and Hibernate.
Simplifying Spring's XML-based dependency injection
Tuesday, 24 April 2007 6:43 A GMT-08
XML Spring bean definitions can be verbose. However, an important benefit of using XML is that it completely decouples the components that are being assembled from the mechanism that is assembling them. It's pure POJO programming.
Java on Guice at the East Bay Java SIG, Oakland, CA
Tuesday, 10 April 2007 5:37 A GMT-08
On Wednesday April 18th, Bob Lee will be giving a talk about the Guice framework at the East Bay Java SIG in Oakland, CA.
Learn POJO application development at Open Source Live in Sacramento, CA
Monday, 9 April 2007 6:11 A GMT-08
In a couple of weeks (April 20th-21st), I will be teaching POJO application development with Spring and Hibernate at Open Source Live in Sacramento, CA.
My JavaOne presentations on testing and JSF, Spring and Hibernate
Monday, 2 April 2007 5:46 A GMT-08
This year two of my presentations got accepted. The first is TS-7082 Building JavaServer Faces Applications with Spring and Hibernate. My second presentations is TS-4439 Minimalist Testing Techniques for Enterprise Java Technology applications.
Wednesday Feb 7th in Oakland, CA: Preventing Software Decay: Minimalist Testing Techniques for Enterprise Java Applications
Monday, 5 February 2007 9:20 A GMT-08
This coming wednesday at the eBIG best practices SIG I'm giving a talk with a colleague on developer testing techniques for enterprise Java applications. The focus is on tests that are easy to write and run fast. We also cover ways to
No-Compromise AJAX: The Google Web Toolkit at the January eBIG Java SIG meeting in Oakland, CA
Friday, 5 January 2007 9:59 A GMT-08
At our January 17th meeting in downtown Oakland, Dan Morrill of Google will be giving a presentation about GWT.
POJOs in Action at the Sacramento Java Users Group
Tuesday, 2 January 2007 8:13 A GMT-08
Next week I'm teaching my 4 day Spring/Hibernate/Acegi class in the Sacramento area. This happily coincided with the second tuesday of the month when the Sacramento Java Users Group meets.
Javapolis day 2 – tangled concerns: my presentation, the conference and the beer
Thursday, 14 December 2006 8:10 A GMT-08
Day 2 started unexpectedly early when I woke up at 3am and couldn’t get back to sleep. This was rather worrying since my JavaPolis university talk was that morning.
JavaPolis - the food and drink concern
Monday, 11 December 2006 12:14 P GMT-08
This week I'll be at the JavaPolis conference in Antwerp, Belgium. I'm excited about the trip. Not only is it my first time at a european Java conference but I am also looking foward to the food and the beer - especially the beer.
POJOs in Action events
Tuesday, 5 September 2006 6:43 A GMT-08
Over the next few months I'm participating in several interesting events in the bay area and elsewhere.
Untangling Enterprise Java - article in ACM Queue magazine
Tuesday, 6 June 2006 7:09 A GMT-08
My article about POJO development has been published in the June issue of ACM Queue magazine. The article describes the evolution of frameworks that handle crosscutting concerns in enterprise Java applications.
POJOs for the holidays
Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:40 P GMT-08
After an insanely busy couple of weeks it looks like I'm finally done with POJOs in Action. As well as consulting, presenting at the SDForum Java SIG, and attending The Spring Experience I've spent much of the past ten days reading proofs....
