Just a quick post to say that from a DSI blogging point of view I’m going to be very quiet for the next 8 months.
John and Eamonn here have allowed me to take an extended leave, and so from 29th of December until the 20th of August I’ll be travelling with my wife and daughters to China, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Chile, Bolivia, Peru and Argentina. It’ll be the first time in 20 years or so that I will not be developing any software for such an extended period of time (it’ll be interesting to see what the psychological effects of that will be!)
The laptop is staying here in Ireland (I’ll be armed with a Nokia N800 though) and so I don’t have to go cold turkey, I hope to meet up with some folks from the software community on the way. In Sydney, Ben Alex of Interface21 (or SpringSource to use the new name), and the guys in Atlassian/Cenqua (who very kindly merged and saved me two trips to two different offices). I also hope to call into Chinesepod - a very successful web-based Chinese language company in Shanghai. Yagiz and I met Erik Wiersma last year at SpringOne when he was working for JTeam and giving a talk about custom namespaces. Erik is now living in Chengu, in the Chinese Province of Sichuan, and has promised me a tour of his company there, IJO Technologies. I’ll be staying with former DSI colleague Simon Pett in Brisbane for a few weeks, and I imagine we might get some nerdy conversations in there somewhere.
If any DSI blog readers out there would like to follow my family on our travels, you can check subscribe to my travel blog.
In the meantime, take care.
-brendan
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