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