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The Heart of Ireland

kinabalu — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:51:46 +0000

As many of you know, I’ve been in Ireland since last Saturday June 5th, 2010. I was invited here to speak at The Irish Software Show. Both of my talks were on Thursday about Apache Wicket, and each of them were well received. Our beginner talk was a big draw, and I [...]

Speaking this week in Dublin, Ireland

kinabalu — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:30:13 +0000

I’ve been here in Dublin for a few days now, getting into various forms of mischief and driving all over the joint on the opposite end. Of course the reason for the visit was to give a few talks on Apache Wicket at epicenter 2010. If you’re going, please stop by my talks on Thursday [...]

Google App Engine for Java presentation

kinabalu — Sat, 15 May 2010 03:45:25 +0000

I gave a talk last night at the Orange County Java User’s Group (OCJUG) on Google App Engine development with the Java platform. This was the same one we gave at the Scandinavian Developer Conference in March. The whole talk stemmed from a good friend Eugene Ciurana being unable to attend, so I [...]

Spammers apparently have a new method of grit

kinabalu — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:02:18 +0000

I’m currently in Europe speaking at Scandevconf.SE. And apparently some spammers have copied legitimate emails that I’ve sent to mailing lists with a signature line containing company phone numbers, and used this as seed content to pass through the usually pretty good spam filters. Ordinarily this wouldn’t be against the norm for spammer sewer sludge, [...]

Interview with Andrew over at LoadStorm

kinabalu — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:10:36 +0000

Scott Price over at LoadStorm interviewed Andrew about his experiences in the software development arena. A lot of really great questions asked, and thoughtful answers on where we’re at as an industry today, and what the road ahead might look like. Check out the interview and enjoy!

Java2Days 2009 Conference in Bulgaria

kinabalu — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:30:37 +0000

Last month in early October, I attended the Java2Days conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. This being the first conference put on in the Balkans and one that reached out to an international set of speakers, I wasn’t expecting it to be any different than the other myriad of conferences. Boy was I wrong. [...]

Review of Revenue Boot Camp 2009

kinabalu — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:30:43 +0000

On a whim, a twitter whim, I decided to head up to San Jose last Friday for Revenue Boot Camp. The day was prepared by Guy Kawasaki and the folks at Garage. Arrived the day before, hung out with some friends in San Francisco, got to bed at a reasonable hour and prepared [...]

Communication Wanderlust

kinabalu — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:53:43 +0000

The research on this is pretty conclusive. It’s common knowledge now: humans suck at multitasking. We can’t do it. Ever try to send an email while talking or listening on the phone? While you’re writing that gem of an email, you’re ignoring the conversation. Instead of doing one thing well, you end [...]

Mystic’s December Company Offsite

kinabalu — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:30:51 +0000

I realize this post is over 2 1/2 months past the actual event, but it was such an awesome time with the Mystic crew, I thought I'd share a bit of the day.

First off, several flew in the night before, and enjoyed a bit of Vegas before the official festivities. Two of the folks in our team had never been to Vegas before, so it was an especially interesting experience. Mystic put everyone up for the night at the Mandalay Bay, a fantastic hotel and one of the few I'd recommend staying in Vegas.