What a busy couple of months!
I started last month (from
October 2nd to the 11th) at the Java2Days conference in Sofia,
Bulgaria. I gave three talks on Spring and JSF, Spring and jBPM, and
Spring Integration (the Spring ESB-like framework). I think the slides
will be available there in shortly. Meanwhile, here are some photos of
the event below, though you're encouraged to log in to Facebook and
check out the full galeries there.
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The name of the gentleman
on the far left escapes me, but that's John Lewis, Emo, and yours
truly on the right
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From left to right: Ivo
Penev, Gisele Consoline, Rob Harrop, yours truly, John Willis, and
Heath Kesler
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I had a great time at the conference. The
audience was great the discussions great, too. The drinking was good,
too! :-)
At some point, I got some sort of stomach bug (perhaps in
Greece?) and when I returned home, I was severely dehyrdated. I spent
a little time hooked up to an IV and then spent the subsequent week
pounding antibiotics, gatorade, and soup. There's a thousand ways to
get sick, only one way to get better!
After that, I got deep
into the final edits for my book "Spring
Enterprise
Recipes."
Really enjoyed that process - it's fascinating to see what goes into
writing a book. Trust me, the book is far better for the effort of the
amazing editors at Apress! :-)
I spoke at the Pasadena
Java User Group on using Spring Integration - that crowd was very
cool and the discussion that ensued was also good.
Recently,
my sister got married. I wish her, and her husband, many happy days
together.
I think that wraps up the highlights. I'll start
chiming in more frequently. A lot has happened of late, including the
debut of Google's Go programming
language, The Motorola
Droid, the continued standoff between Sun/Oracle and the European
Union over objections to Oracle's accquisition of MySQL, and more.
Exciting times...
