Travelling, and not Arriving

          ... a good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving... (Lao Tzu)

Posts from February 2008

Live from FOSDEM, Bruxelles

Today I´m in Buxelles for FOSDEM, the free and open source software developers european meeting. Here is the schedule, quite different from the usual Java conference, as you can see.
Anyway, instead of the usual wrap-up/my-impressions post, in this post I´m going to write down what´s happening here, live.
— OpenOffice extensions development in Java w/Netbeans in [...]


Sun Microsystems: moneys for ideas

After Google and its Android competition, now it’s time for Sun Microsystems to come up with an interesting initiative to reward worldwide developers: the Netbeans Innovator Grant.
You can submit a project proposal — your ideas of how to improve the NetBeans Project — and a panel of experts will assign to the best proposals [...]


How I ended up on “Il sole 24 ore”

Well, on a supplement dedicated to Lombardia (an italian Region), actually; and there’s my photo, but not my name. However, Il sole 24 ore is still the most important italian economic newspaper, so I guess it can be considered a good news for a quite and sleepy Wednesday.
That’s the full story: my friends of ExcogitaNet [...]


Begijnhof, Amsterdam

Begijnhof, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


EEE: a hot niche market for software houses?

I haven´t had much time to play with the EEE yet, since I spent most part of the last week (and hundred percent of my energies) packing my stuff and moving in a new apartment.
Anyway, I´m definitely trying to think about new ways of using, and new softwares to write (or to modify) for [...]