Alef Arendsen

Yesterday we had another pretty successful Java Meetup in Amsterdam. About 50 people joined in for beers and talks about Java. Thanks all for joining; you definitely made my day . I hope you had fun.

Amongst others I met with a former co-student of mine I hadn’t seen in 7 years or so (although we’re living in the same city and actually really close to each other). I also spoke with several people I have worked with on projects years ago and I ran into Aino Andriessen, who (already–even though the year has just started) has won the award for the gig of the year gig of the year. He just returned from the Pacific where he worked on a Continuous Integration solution in an ADF environment. Read Paul Theroux’ Happy Isles of Oceania to get an idea.

Only until after the event I found out that it was featured on upcoming.org. I’ll post a link to the upcoming.org for next time’s meeting so we can keep track of who’s coming.

Next installment will be in April. I don’t have a date yet (I have to check conference schedule, public holidays, et cetera first), but it won’t be the last Friday of the month, because I heard there’s a different (monthly) and rivaling (no, just kidding) event going on then and I don’t want to be in their way .

p.s. next time I’ll try to take some pictures and post them here.

For the third time in a row, I went to Costa Rica last December 2006. No stories this time, as things are getting pretty predictable right now (surf, sun, beach and driving around the country). Instead, a few photos.

A couple of highlights: I did get to surf Hermosa, which was terrible and great at the same time! I ate Tuna again at Fred’s place in Drake’s Bay. I got my Open Water diver certificate from Bob in Quepos and used it near Cano Island (also from Drake’s Bay) and unfortunately I didn’t have the time to visit Terry anymore.

It was great again, but it’ll probably be the last time I’m visiting for quite some time, as it really begins to sound like I’m going to the same campsite in France for 15 years in a row (replace France with Costa Rica and campsite with hotel(s)).

Happy New Year everybody!! I didn´t post for a while because I´m currently enjoying a holiday. I do wanted to let you all know that the location for the next Amsterdam Java Meetup (January 26th) has been decided upon. Last time we did it in de Jaren and this has been okay for us, so let´s just meetup there again.

Last meetups were a lot of fun, so if you´re into meeting some fellow Java developers and others from the industry while enjoying a beer or two, please drop by.

De Jaren is located in de Nieuwe Doelenstraat in the centre of Amsterdam.

Time: from 6pm.

Posts about previous Java Meetups should be available from the related posts part just below.