My first four days in Malmö have been great so far. Monday and Tuesday were a bit intense, me spending the day at the client site giving a training and the night and early morning preparing slides and training material, so I not really slept very much.
I really enjoy working with the developers at my client. They are great guys and they have already built some impressive things using POCO, with much more to come. After spending more than two years in the development of POCO, it's now simply phantastic to see some real world software systems being built with it.
This morning I went for a run and ended up at the seaside of Malmö where recently they have built some impressive apartments (later that day I was told that these were build for some kind of fair, and some of the apartments are a bit on the "experimental" side, like having no single door in the entire apartment...). Unfortunately, I forgot my camera at home, so I won't bring any photos this time. Not that I have much opportunity for taking photo, because when I head for the client site in the morning, its still dark, and when I leave it's already dark again.
This evening I went to see a movie - and that's another thing great about Sweden (at least for me) - most movies are in English, with Swedish subtitles.
Okay, that's all for today.
To my readers in the US and A*: Happy Thanksgiving!
* guess which movie I saw tonight
I'll be spending this week in Malmö, Sweden, giving a POCO onsite startup training and consulting at a client. This promises to be really interesting, and I am looking forward to it.
On Wednesday, Nov. 15, I will give a presentation at the Electronica Embedded conference in Munich. The title of the presentation is Automatic Configuration and Service Discovery for Networked Smart Devices and will give an overview of technologies like Zeroconf, UPnP, Jini and JXTA.
On thursday, I will be at LinuxWorld Köln..
Hope to see you there!
If you just cannot decide on a name for your newborn...
Also by the same author: Becoming a Better Developer.
My old friend Arnold Schwarzenegger got into some trouble in 2004 after he deemed some Democrats in California girlie men (Wikipedia entry here).
Well, what can I say, in Austria we have girlie men, too. After losing the elections in October, the conservative party behaves like a bunch of four year olds after someone took away their favorite toy. Girlie men, indeed.