Friday February 29, 2008
This February I spent in Singpore to help building up a development team at the new Bosch IT office. We are building a platform for workflow applications based on JIRA. More details about that maybe in a later post.
My personal highlights were:
- Chinese New Years: Quite a few celebration went on and the best thing was, that I even got two days off for that.
- Weekend trip to Railey, Thailand: A beautiful peninsula, connected to the mainland by a small isthmus, which at least two perfect beaches and huge rocks to climb - what elso do you need? More time…
- The leisure trips with and organized by Vanchin, Nouman and other co-workers to some of the islands around Singpore and going out to Gelang for having some frog legs for dinner and durians as dessert. Durians are fruits, which have a intense smell and taste, and people either love it or find it disgusting. While I ate a bit of it, I must say that won’t become a big fan.
- Roti prata - an indian pancake to be eaten with all kinds of stuff, but i liked it the most with the original curry.
I am writing this at Changi Airport, so quickly a few pictures before I head to the gate:
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Wednesday February 13, 2008
Today was a good day for Australia. During an internship at the North Queensland Rural Health Training Center in 2000 I was made aware about who indigenous Australians were treated until the 1970ies. Today, Primeminister Kevin Rudd said sorry to all indigenous Australians and the stolen generation.
This is good news at last.
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Tuesday February 12, 2008
There has a lot of blog posting about the up- and downsides about Maven lately. As I was one of the early adopters, and probably made others to use it by writing articles in the Java Magazin about it, I am following the discussing with some interest.
On the one side, the idea behind Maven is certainly a good one. Everytime I created a build system based on good old Ant, I wished I would have been able to use Maven. On the other hand, Maven really sucks. Yes, it does. And people like Matt Raible and Don Brown who try to help improving Maven don’t make it much better. In fact, I strongly agree with Charles Miller of Atlassian, who says “Maven: Broken by Design” (btw: an excellent and entertaining read).
In this whole discussion, I personally think that the use cases for Maven should be re-thought. This would help focussing the discussion.
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