ToJ Report

I started 2018 with high expectations and even bigger plans. Now, after having lived through or should I say survived the first 6 months, it’s time to take a look back and to evaluate the goals and achievements. Overall, I had a pretty good first half of the year. I spoke at 5 conferences, hosted…

Happy new year and welcome to the first Thoughts on Java Report in 2018! You might have recognized that I took a short break at the end of December to enjoy Christmas and to regain some energy. I really needed that short break after an amazing year. In 2017, you helped me to publish my…

Last month was the most relaxing one since I launched my first online course in 2016. My family and I went on a vacation and I almost did not work for 3 weeks. And the best part about it, I prepared almost all posts and videos in advance so that you (hopefully) didn’t even recognize…

So far, this year had been crazy. But July provided a nice change of pace. Within the first ~3 months, I wrote and launched the Hibernate Tips book with huge success. As of today, I sold more than 1100 books and e-books. As I’ve learned recently, that are more copies than some traditional publishers expect…

I had a lot of plans for the last month. But it came differently. Instead of improving the overall user experience of this site and introducing new offers to work with me, I had to migrate this site to a new technical platform. After a few stressful weeks, it looks like everything is working fine….