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About Me

I'm a technologist, architect, software developer and general tube plumber based in Berlin, Germany. I currently work for Nokia's Location services division making maps and stuff to support geo products. I make software with things I'm keen on: internet technologies, agile methodologies and development, openness (people, source and information), parallel and distributed computing, lightweight architectures and development, pragmatism, messaging, Java, *nix, big pictures, interaction, experiences and oh so much more!

Contact

info (at) joshdevins (dot) net
Berlin, Germany

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Projects

• Lego Manhunt - Lego Manhunt is a location based game built in Ruby on Rails. We are currently planning on launching a limited beta in summer 2010.
• Jitr - Jitr is a JUnit Integration Test Runner. It allows your web application integration tests to easily run against a lightweight web container in the same JVM as your tests.
• Mule in Action, Manning Publications - No, I'm not writing the book, I only wish I was! I am, however, an official reviewer of the book.
• Mattress Framework - The Mattress Framework is a Java and Spring based, lightweight and extensible REST framework. It is loosely related to the JSR 311 initiative, but is not compliant since much of the specification has been deemed far too complex or unnecessary. (inactive)

Conferences and Training

I try to attend lots of different conferences and training events, even speaking at some when I have the chance. Here's the current list.

• re:publica - April 2010, Berlin, Germany (speaker)
• QCon London - March 2010, London, England (speaker)
• Ignite Berlin - March 2010, Berlin, Germany (speaker - "Lego Manhunt")
• ScaleCamp UK - December 2009, London, England (speaker - "From Zero to Lots")
• JAOO - October 2009, Aarhus, Denmark
• SpringSource Hibernate with Spring - July 2009, Berlin, Germany
• Certified Scrum Master (with Ken Schwaber) - May, 2009, Berlin, Germany
• SpringSource Certified Professional - May 2009, Berlin, Germany
• SpringSource Core Spring - April 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia
• Web 2.0 Expo - November 2007, Berlin, Germany
• JavaOne and Java University - May 2007, San Francisco, California
• OOPSLA - October 2006, Portland, Oregon

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Looking for Josh Devins the photographer? That was me back in Vancouver, but here's my photography website anyways.