A good start

Tomorrow I’ll start my adventure in London, in TW, It will be a good start, Marco has organized the first meeting of the apln-london

APLN London is a local chapter of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN), which is a non-profit organization that looks to enable and cultivate great project leaders by focusing on:

• Value
• Customers
• Teams
• Individuals
• Context
• Uncertainty

Mike Cohn will be the special guest talking about Agile Planning and Tracking… QL no?

Microsoft free?

I thought that I was complitely Microsoft Free: MacOs X on my laptop, kubuntu on another laptop (I call my mum on skype with this!!!), ubunto on my home personal “server”… No windows mobile, no windows… But sometimes I can still go angry for it… Some folk is still using it on the web for example… Isn’t awful?

5 min ago I got this:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error ’80040e31′

[MySQL][ODBC 3.51 Driver][mysqld-5.0.24a-community-nt]Got error 28 from storage engine

/includes/2005bit/mySqlEnEs.asp, line 77

Browsing a website…Asp? Mysql installed on an nt machine… Pah!

Auf Wiedersehen Wien

Tomorrow will be my last day in Vienna.

I’ve loved this city, I spent here six nice months. I’ll end this adventure with the concert of Pearl Jam, a perfect end no?

I would like to thanks the Italians on line, I met nice people there and the page with the addresses is really useful. Yesterday I got my last austrian pizza at I Ragazzi, difficult to find a pizza good like this even in Italy!

Buzzwords

Filippo was asking on the JUG Milano ML which will be the buzzwords for the next years, the thread of the discussion is here, in italian, but you can easyly find the buzz on it .

Well, in my post I wrote these:

• JDK 5
• Annotations
• Continuations
• JSP 2.0
• TestNG
• Wicket web framework
• Stripes web framework
• Selenium

JDK 5, or even 6 but I still don’t see so much projects using the 5, maybe in TW will be different we’ll see. With JDK 5 of course annotations.

I was already posting here something about Continuations, I repeat, the work that Greg Wilkins is doing with Jetty 6 is amazing. That app server is already better than tomcat and it’s growing in the better way.

TestNG is the next generation of JUnit. I’m not sure if it will be really the next generation of Junit, but this project is interesting, you should have a look to the discussions about what was moving the author to develop it, quite intersting!

And then 2 web framewors, will be difficult to fight against WebWork+Struts2 or whatever they call it, btw these 2 projects are nice.

Stripes has as main goal to be easy, we’ll see, I’ll try it out
Wicket should be again very easy to use and u can do all with only editing .java files and html files…

The good thing is that from that post maybe I’ll start a collaboration with javajournal an italian blog and montly newspaper, it’s good: I’ll be forced to write something in Italian there and to try it out this buzz , I’m sure that I’ll put also an english version here. Stay tuned.