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I'm in India (Bangalore and Hyderabad) and the news today is of the passing of Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who's music influenced the Beatles in the 60s and changed the genre in some ways. The first introduction to him that I had was through the music of his daughters on Concert for George (Harrison), a tribute concert to honor the late Beatle. From there, I explored his other music and in particular his influence on the Beatles and really have a lot of respect for the man.

I just finished SpringOne China over the weekend. The show was absolutely amazing and the attendees were, as usual, the highlight of the show. It was such an honor to meet so many wonderful people.

This post was written December 4th, but am only now getting a chance to post it as I've got a few minutes stuck on the tarmac in Shanghai waiting to take off.

Today, I'll begin another adventure, going to work in Shanghai, China, for two months where I'll be able to work with the Cloud Foundry Shanghai teams and more fully take in life in the next empire. I'm not sure if this blog will be available there, but if it is, I'll try to post updates as often as I can. If you can read this in China, feel free to reach me at josh (at) joshlong (dot) com. I'd love an opportunity to potentially talk to your organization about how you're using Spring and / or Cloud Foundry, or - if you're running an event or meet-up or conference and would like a speaker, I'd also be interested in hearing from you.

This is a picture of The Kettle in Los Angeles' Manhattan Beach area at 4AM. So surreal. The Kettle, by the way, is an amazing restaurant that's open 24/7 in Los Angeles and situated a block away from the Pacific Ocean. Beautiful and fun during the day. Downright amazing at 3am.

There's an issue with Spring Data Mongo when used in the context of an application with existing PlatformTransactionManager-based transaction management setup, where Spring's TransactionSynchronizationManager tries to find the bound Spring Data Mongo DB instance, but fails and throws an exception.

I found a nice application on Cloud Foundry that enumerates the environment variables in Cloud Foundry with the values for this particular application.

I received the following (very awesome) e-mail the other day:

Are you going to be in Antwerp, Beglium for Devoxx? If so, feel free to reach out to me. I'll be speaking on Spring (including a look at Spring 3.1 and 3.2), Cloud Foundry, and much more.

I'm excited to report that i'll be speaking at the Cloud Foundry Open Tour event in Sofia, Bulgaria! This event's sure to be fun, and it'll be my second trip to Bulgaria in two weeks! If you're in Sofia, Bulgaria, and want to talk Spring, and Cloud Foundry, please be sure to drop by! I'll be joining several other world-class speakers to talk about application development on Cloud Foundry with various technologies.

I've just returned from one of my all-time favorite conferences, the amazing Java2Days conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. This was my fourth year speaking there. I've had the unique, and rare privilege of having been there every year since the show started in 2009. Here's my post of the show from 2010. Each year, the show gets better and better. This year was no exception. I gave two talks - my Multi Client Development with Spring MVC (which is mainly about connecting clients (Android, native, HTML5) to your services with REST) and The Cloud Foundry Bootcamp. (Those links are to the slides on my SlideShare account, if you're interested..)