Ivar Grimstad: ShiftAPPens 2026 (opens in new tab)

I finally got around to write about ShiftAPPens 2026. The Hackathon was an amazing experience. Around 150 students came together in a sports hall to participate in this hackathon that over the entire weekend from Friday around lunch until Sunday afternoon. Since Jakarta EE was a gold sponsor of the hackathon, we could have a challenge of your own. The challenge we proposed was to create a “Know-me-Engine” where the teams should build a Jakarta EE application that interacted with an LLM using ...