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The Very unofficial Geek’s Guide to Vegas
I’ve been living in Las Vegas for 13 years and working at Microsoft for 5 years. Next week there are thousands of Microsoft customers, partners and employees coming to Vegas for Microsoft Inspire and an internal event. I’m really looking forward to catching up with everyone here in Vegas! As a local I get asked… Continue reading
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Installing and running SBT on Windows 10
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’m working on a workshop for Scala days (Join us if you can! ) that includes setting up an Akka cluster on a set of three Raspberry Pis. The workshop organizers have very kindly shared a pre-built image with me. Up until now I’ve been working with the image… Continue reading
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Connecting Windows 10 to a fixed IP address outside of your network range
I’m working on a workshop for Scala days (Join us if you can! ) that includes setting up an Akka cluster on a set of three Raspberry Pis. The workshop organizers have very kindly shared a pre-built image with me, which will save me a TON of time, but also comes with a minor problem — the… Continue reading
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See you in Paris, London and online!
Hi, I’m back on the road and excited to be participating in these events over the next two weeks! ⦁ Tuesday April 18 — Online — 4:20 PM EDT — Java WTB⦁ Friday April 20 — Friday 12:55–13:40 CETv (and at the booth — Devoxx France (Paris)⦁ Tuesday April 24–18:15 to 21:15 BST — London Java Community Let me know if you’ll be there! Continue reading
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Java geeks — see you in Montreal and Toronto this week!
I love both places!…..in the summer. But I’m looking forward to catching up with ex-colleagues, and old and new friends! No I did not. If you’re in Montreal or Toronto, come by and see my talks! The title for both is Top ways to deliver your Java code to the cloud, but the content will be… Continue reading
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Build a Java and MySQL App on VMs and Containers in Azure (Part 3)
This is part 3 of a series. In part 1, we set up a new Azure Database for MySQL instance and ran a local Spring Boot app with embedded tomcat. In part 2, we deployed that application to an Azure Linux VM using only the command line. In this part, I’ll show you how to… Continue reading
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Build a Java and MySQL App on VMs and Containers in Azure (Part 2)
This is part 2 of a series. In Part 1, we set up a new Azure Database for MySQL instance and ran a local Spring Boot app with embedded tomcat. In this part of the series, we’ll deploy that application to an Azure Linux VM using only the command line. In the next post I’ll… Continue reading
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Build a Java and MySQL App on VMs and Containers in Azure
Today, Microsoft has announced the Generally Available (GA) release of our Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL services on Azure. At Microsoft, a GA release has successfully passed through the preview release stage and is considered reliable, free of serious bugs, and suitable for use in production systems. In this post, I’ll… Continue reading
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Great Microsoft lineup at SpringOne Platform (San Francisco Dec 4–7)
Curious about Azure and what Microsoft has to offer to the Spring community? We have a great lineup of speakers for SpringOne Platform! We’ll also have a booth, be sure to stop by for a chat and a demo, and we’ll have some great giveaways! Tuesday December 5 9AM: check out the Keynote with Erich Gamma2PM:… Continue reading
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Brian’s past talks
Recent past talks are listed below, including links to recordings, presentations, etc. You can see upcoming talks here. If you have a speaking opportunity that you think I may be a good fit for, please let me know! (Anything related to Java and cloud worldwide is a good start.) October 19, 2017: Webinar, Azul Systems:… Continue reading
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