Rocky Mountain Software Symposium

I just finished uploading my slides for this weekends Rocky Mountain Software Symposium (aka NFJS Denver). I have two sessions, one on JPA and another on Maven 2. Here are my presentations. I hope to see you there.

Goodbye consulting, hello Overstock.com

It would have been much better if I'd posted this month's ago but I've been so busy with work and the UJUG (Utah Java User Group) that I haven't had much time to blog. I'm hopping this will change from today onward. So my first bit of news is that after being a consultant for most of the last eight years or so I've finally decided to take a full-time job with Overstock.com. I actually started back in April of this year, so I've been there for a while now. I must say that I'm having more fun at Overstock.com than I've had in years. That is part of the reason I haven't been blogging, my day job is so satisfying that when I get home I don't need to challenge myself with something interesting, I get to do interesting stuff all day long. I'm hoping to start blogging a little more often (like more than every two months) and talk a little bit about what we are doing, from a technology standpoint that is. On another note, I just finished an article on JPA for TheServerSide.com. I think it will be posted on Tuesday of next week (Sept. 18th). If you are interested in looking at the source, you can check out the project page here.

JPA 101 on The ServerSide

Chapter 7 of JPA 101 is now available on TheServerSide.com. I've got some JPA related material I need to put on this site, so check back later today for the Maven 2 JPA archetype and some other stuff :-) If you are interested in purchasing this book, you can find it here at SourceBeat.com. Let me know what you think of the chapter.