title	conference	date
The State of Server Side Java Webapps	Devoxx Belgium 2024	2024-10-07
Argues that many apps don’t need heavy client frameworks and gives concrete evidence: popular sites often ship 2–5 MB of JavaScript causing FCP ~2–3s and LCP… Talk on
Wait no more, here comes Maven 4!	Devoxx Belgium 2024	2024-10-07
Maven 4 (beta 4) arrives with concrete changes: existing Maven 3 projects still build but show new warnings and a new fail on severity flag to turn logged… Talk on
Accelerating Maven Builds: From Snail's Pace to Rocket Speed	JCON EUROPE 2024	2024-05-13
Measures build time with the OpenTelemetry Maven extension and a Jaeger collector so you see per-module and per-plugin timing; a Shiro demo drops tests from… Talk on
Five ways open source will slow you down	J-Fall 2023	2023-11-09
Claim: five concrete failure modes that make open source slow projects down and how to fix them. Examples: emailing maintainers demanding fixes (a team emailed… Talk on
Beware of Survivorship Bias!	JCON Europe 2023	2023-06-20
Walks through a concrete failed experiment: trying blockchain for a 500-person works council and concluding a normal database is safer after decision models… Talk on
What's Cooking in Maven?	J-Fall 2022	2022-11-03
Maven Wrapper provides checked-in mvnw scripts so every developer uses the same Maven distribution without installing Maven system-wide. Build/consumer… Talk on
What's cooking in Maven?	Devoxx France 2022	2022-04-20
Maven Wrapper now in Apache generates mavenw scripts that download a specific distribution (demo used 3.8.5) so clones build without preinstalled Maven; Maven… Talk on
React in 40 minutes	JCON-ONLINE 2021	2021-10-05
Forty minutes of live coding shows React’s core: JSX transpiles (via babel/tsc to react.createElement), a virtual DOM with reconciliation, and practical… Talk on
Making Maven Marvellous	J-Fall Virtual 2020	2020-11-03
Describes concrete contributions to Maven: fixes to the multi-module reactor so running mvn from a submodule or with -f correctly resolves inter-module… Talk on
SSL/TLS for Mortals	Devoxx Belgium 2019	2019-11-04
Explains why SSL is obsolete, recommends TLS 1.2 or 1.3, and shows packet-sniffer demos that reveal plaintext vs encrypted HTTP. Covers RSA basics with prime… Talk on
SSL/TLS for Mortals	J-Fall 2018	2018-11-08
Timeline shows SSL is dead and TLS 1.3 is current; prefer TLS 1.2+ and avoid SSLv2/3. Live demos use a packet sniffer to compare plaintext HTTP with HTTPS, and… Talk on
SSL/TLS for Mortals	GOTO Berlin 2018	2018-10-31
Explains why TLS matters, shows a live curl + Wireshark demo that contrasts plaintext HTTP with encrypted TLS, and walks through RSA with small primes to show… Talk on
Building apps with React Native	Devoxx Belgium 2017	2017-11-06
Recreates a five-guess word game (like the TV show) as a single JavaScript codebase that runs on iOS and Android, using React Native for native UI and Redux… Talk on
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