Jan is an IT anarchist who believes that knowledge is a treasure that should be shared among everyone who hungers for it - and not kept in vaults protected by patents. As such he tries to dig deep for the knowledge and publish gems he has discovered. He graduated at University Hradec Králové in Czech Republic nearly ten years ago and now he tries to return something back by giving talks there. He appreciate the most things that just work - libraries and tool you can learn to use in one day, but that keep surprising you (in a good way) for months on. What are those? Let's start with IntelliJ Idea or Teamcity, Spring, iBatis, Stripes, DWR, jQuery. What are not? EJB (no 3.1 won't convince him), JSF, Hibernate and many other frameworks and libraries that are propagated as "enterprise" ones. He don't want to persuade anyone, but "enterprise" just don't fit into KISS. He is happy to have found similarly thinking people in FG Forrest and can test those ideas in real projects. Most of the spare time he spends with his family - with wife Michaela and son Nicholas. Now he is looking forward to birth of a daughter Elizabeth.