In this episode, Kito, Danno, and Ian discuss their key areas of focus for the New Year, as well as naming for EE4J and Java EE, plus Polymer, PrimeNG, Bootstrap, Arquillian, Hibernate, Spring Cloud, Docker, Machine Learning, adoption of Agile practices, and more.

UI Tier

Polymer Decorators 1.0 Released

Polymer 3.0: New year, new preview

OmniFaces 3.0 Released

PrimeNG 5.2.0-RC1 Released

PrimeFaces EL Security Vulnerability

Bootstrap 4 Released

TypeScript 2.7.0 Released

Java EE

Joint Community Open Letter on Java EE Naming and Packaging (KM)

• Response from Oracle

EE4J: Current Status and What’s Next

Arquillian Core 1.2.1.Final Released

Persistence Tier

Hibernate Picked as Project of the Month on Sourceforge

New Hibernate Community Forum

Hibernate 5.9.0CR1 Released

Services (Middleware & Microservices)

Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.3.0.RC1 Released

Misc

Cortex Graphical AI Interface

Machine Learning Guide Podcasts

Picks

(Any product, tool, etc. that you really like; doesn’t have to be related to programming)

State of Scrum Report 2017-2018

This Week in Tech (TWiT)

Ubuntu MATE

Ubuntu Mini

Events

ng-europe - Feb 1-2nd, 2018, Paris, France

Devnexus - Feb 21st-23rd, 2018, Atlanta, GA, US

ng-conf - April 18th-20th, 2018, Salt Lake City, Utah, US

Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS) - April 24-27th, 2018, Bangalore, India

RiveriaDev - May 16-18, 2018, French Riviera, France

No Fluff Just Stuff

• Madison February 23 - 24, 2018
• Minneapolis March 2 - 4, 2018
• Boston March 16 - 18, 2018
• St. Louis April 6 - 7, 2018
• Reston April 20 - 22, 2018