I honestly don’t remember my first open source contributions. I was involved in some of the early days of hacking, modding, and working on shareware and freeware before the internet and then in newsgroups – remember those? From there I … Read more →
Wow .. has time ever flown by! It’s is now just over 6 month ago that I became a Chainguardian and let you all know with a fun public service announcement video. Joining Chainguard has been an amazing experience so … Read more →
It has been a long time that spring time has marked the moment to get ready for the Google IO developer conference for me. Its been many years since I last went to the conference. It started with IO 2009 … Read more →
Just a quick note today. I released a new version of polyglot-maven with a significant refactor to the Kotlin dialect. Its much more idiomatic Kotlin code now and should results in better IDE support and features. Check it out!
Is it really nearly two years ago. Time certainly flies. My focus these days certainly has shifted away from Android development, but of course that does not mean I should let down the users of the plugin. So here it … Read more →
My trusty Maven Repository Provisioner needed a bit more attention again thanks to some pull requests from users. To make it worth the effort of cutting a release I decided to throw in some further updates.
In the Java/JVM and especially also in the Android eco-system the Kotlin programming language has found many friends and fans. It even is moving into native and web realms these days. With it popularity soaring it spreads out further and … Read more →
Within the last while I have ended up doing a whole bunch of merges on the maven-wrapper and the related takari-maven-plugin. In the end (fingers crossed) we are now at maven-wrapper: 0.5.4 and takari-maven-plugin:0.7.5. That includes a whole bunch of … Read more →
My little Maven Repository Provisioner tool needed better support for a few use cases and I got those all implemented and cut a new release.
Wow. It has really been a year since the last release. A whole bunch of changes accumulated and are now available in the new 4.5.0 release for you all to enjoy.