Another great Ted talk. I particularly love the sequence from 7:08 to 7:40.

I'm the man. The final man. You know, we've been mutating for 4 billion years but now because it's me we've stopped.

Except this time is true. :)

Gaiaware has just announced the Gaia Programming Contest. A contest "... about creating an Ajax Application that will serve as a meeting place for people dedicated to solving environmental issues...".

Very good but there's more: "... no Close Source dependencies can be used which means that the end product must be compilable on Mono ...". Great!

Of course people using boo and db4o have a huge headstart. So what are you waiting for?

Dennis Kucinich for emperor!

What a great experience.

A chance to interact live with a dear friend. Free Software, Hacking, Women, Futurama, McDonalds, love spreading, Militant Atheism, Monty Python, Douglas Adams and the French Way.

Had lots of interesting exchange of ideas with Massi, ranging from "extensible parsing through composeable PEGs with  optimal performance" to Carlos Castañeda, Jesus Christ, meta-physics, religion and Pink Floyd. The Cryptonomicon really got me.

Got to put a face on Joachim and see how really cool Unity is.

Jeroen IKVM Frijters is a funny guy!

On Thursday I got to talk about db4o which led me to meet a few db4o users hanging around the conference.

Pedro Santos had an interesting question, how to monitor and control the usage of computational resources in a managed client/server application? In other words, how a sysadmin can make sure a specific client won't DOS the application?

For .NET servers running on Windows there are performance counters, what about Mono servers running on Linux?

I've also got to spread the gospel about boo for which I got a hugely positive response.

Thomas "Gaia" Hansen seemed to really get it and so we had lots of interesting discussions on how to take over the world boo style.

Jackson wants to hack on better nullable type support for boo!

Mark wants an extensible language where NullReferenceExceptions are impossible.

Miguel reassured me once again mcs won't be rewritten on top of the boo compiler infrastructure :)

The presentation material is here.

Looking forward to the next one.

So it's official now, I'll be speaking at the Mono Summit 2007.

It will be great to see you there!

Many thanks to the great folks at db4o for sponsoring my trip.

I had the most fascinating dream last night, very complex and full of details and by its very nature impossible for me to describe it. It was mix of the Tao, The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, Big Bang Theory and Computer Science and if I was to sum it all up it would be something like "the multiverse as a breadth-first search algorithm".

So what would be the optimal universe configuration? Looking from where I stand it's hard to believe it's going to be ours.

I don't believe I'm the first one to think it that way so now I'm googling for references. Drop me a line if you know of any.

Update 1: this seems to be close enough so I'm definitely getting it.

Update 2: I got depth-first and breadth-first mixed up :)

Just got back from Corteo. WOW! What an experience! I'm feeling really good. If you have the chance don't miss it.

And this is only two days after having the pleasure of listening to Charlie Haden's Liberation Orchestra live.

Yeah, I'm feeling really good.

I still have to blog about my great PDC experience but here it goes a quickie.

Anders having fun with boo and mono (or Miguel having fun with boo and c# or Bamboo having fun with mono and c#):

Working for db4o is really a joy.

Not only I get to work on a great product which is changing and will keep changing the way many people
develop software but also get to work and talk with very smart guys very frequently.

And now for the extra sugar they are sponsoring my trip to the PDC.

So if are you going to the PDC and want to exchange some ideas on object oriented databases,
agile programming languages, agile software development, drumming and/or lucid dreaming,
let me know!

The Infinite Cat Project.

I'm still deciding on which of my cats will go first...

Hey you! Yeah, you, the ones deciding the fate of the empire during the next few days.

Have in mind that whatever you decide will have a huge impact on the life of everyone else on this planet (and maybe the universe, how greedy can those in power become?) so please vote against Bush!

And if you haven't made up your mind yet or were thinking on not voting just because everyone sucks, please, be the voice of those without one and vote against Bush!

Please?

The guys had a surprise for me today:

From left to right: Leo, Andre, me and Carlos

Oh, guys! I hate you so much. :)