2008 has been a great year. A few highlights, both personal and from the business. The main them for me this year (just as last year by the way) was travel. I’ve been to lots of places. Most of the visits were really cool, others were more of the same. But more of the same […]
Archive for 2008
Almost a month ago, I posted on my experiences with MyC4. This post gives a short update on things. The summary is that basically, things are not going all that well… It’s not that I’m going to care a lot about it, for me it’s an experiment, but still…
First of all, it’s impossible to get […]
As I write this, I just finished an amazing trip to Jerusalem, Israel. I have been to Israel twice before this year, but never managed to get see anything else than Tel Aviv. Thanks to the wonderful AlphaCSP guys, I am here again and this time I made a trip to Jerusalem. In short: I […]
Stephen Colebourne did his Future of the Java Language talk again at JavaEdge here in Israel. It’s a two-part talk where in the first part he higlights the current status of the Java language and how its development is progressing. In the second part he highlights 10 different features that might all classify as small […]
I’m speaking at the JavaDay in Rome early next year. The event takes places on the 24th of January. I came across their website just now and this ad struck me as typical Italian.
Also, Andrea del Bene ha scritto: are you planning to give your talk (”Spring == XML therefore Spring == Sucks??”) in Italian?
Andrea: […]
Femke recently advised me to look at LiveMocha for language lessons. I had a look at it and it works out quite alright! People help you correct spelling mistakes, et cetera. It’s a true Web 2.0 collaborative experience. I wonder how they ever will make money though :-).
Anyway, I came across this nice little picture […]
Music I have been listening to the last few weeks:
Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s - nice and easy indie pop. There are some good concerts a emporter over at the Blogotheque from this Indianapolis band
Several Arrows Later by Matt Pond PA
Mend (To Fix, To Repair) by Elsiane - trip-hop for a lazy Sunday […]
Last year I wrote a piece on the amount travel I did and whether or not CO2 compensation for this is something that’s worthwhile. This year, we implemented a CO2 compensation policy at SpringSource, so I can now expense the compensation I do for all business-related travel.
This year, I’ve been on the road for about […]
I just realized that when you travel that much, your own house also turns into a hotel. You’re hardly ever there, when the cleaning lady still refreshes the sheets every time, it’s just like a hotel bed…
The bad thing though is, that although my house is a bit more spacious than a hotel room (nope, […]
Earlier this year I started to participate in MyC4, an online community of lenders and borrowers with the main goal to eradicate poverty before 2015 (one of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals). The main idea of MyC4 is to bring together borrowers (from third-world countries in Africa) and lenders (mainly from the Western world) […]
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