So I have been dabbling with Android development for a bit and have been using Apache Maven for years. I recently started to provide some patches for the maven-android-plugin and came across the issue that the android.jar is not in maven central.. So something needed to be done.
I contacted Jason van Zyl and then Bob [...]

As you might or might not know I have been using Apache Maven for quite a few years now and I have come to do all my development projects the maven way although I am probably not a full Maven maven. I am setting up a new development machine at home after being forced to [...]

Chilling in the garden with the boys. Hammocks, sandbox, trampolin and all. #
Congratulations! RT @ddossot Mule in Action is now treeware: http://is.gd/1DsL0 #
wow… my amazon wishlist got totally busted.. #
@kellyrob99 .. thanks for the filthy rich #android clients link. Its one of the many treasures at http://parleys.com/ ;-) #
Downloading The Art of Community Chapter 1 [...]

Following up on my previous post here are the tweets of 2009 so far.

So I found out that Twitter will not keep all my posts forever so I activated the weekly recapture feature on our new wordpress site that will produce a blogpost here each week allowing me to look back later and giving me at least some control over my posts in terms of backing up and [...]

So my manager at work recently sent a question to some of our team members
wondering what we think about this article on SD Times and the presented view about Mono outpacing Java on Linux. Here are a couple of my thoughts…
There are a few different aspects to the usage of Mono and Java that [...]

Being a part of the Java community for a couple of years now and following whats going on across podcasts and blogs all over I stumbled into an observation today that got me wondering. I was listening to the Floss Weekly podcast episode 52 about Processing.
The discussion on this podcast and the ones [...]

Shea Phillips has read and reviewed “Adding AJAX” from OReilly he received via VIJUG. Sounds like a good book. Read his review on his blog.

Wow. After a month away from radio, tv, internet and other distractions in Costa Rica, we are back at home in cold and wet Victoria.
I had a few thousand blog posts in my google reader to catch up on and a well over a thousand emails, not to mention mundane stuff like washing clothes. All [...]

So here I am at an airport yet again. This time in San Francisco waiting for my flight home. The Friday afternoon Java One sessions are still going on, but when leaving at lunch time you could already see that it is getting less busy.