JavaGu(i)(y)

Tickets for the WorldCup available (prefer trading)

Last saturday we’ve picked up our tickets in Germany ….. but unfortunately we still don’t have tickets for Argentina against the Netherlands. But …. we have some “trading material”: * 2 category 1 tickets for Argentina – Serbia and Montenegro in Gelsenkirchen. * 1 category 4 ticket for Switzerland – Korea Republic in Hannover. * 2 category 1 tickets for the 1/8 final winner group F – runner-up group E1 in Dortmund. * 2 category 3 tickets for the 1/8 final winner group H - runner-up group G in Hanover. We are always willing to sell these tickets, but that’s not our main objective. We want to trade tickets to get hold of tickets for the Netherlands. So, spread the word and if someone is interested he can can contact us at baahmi@gmail.com or just leave a comment.

Arrived in SF for JavaOne

The flight yesterday was ok, although a bit long and boring. The thing I am happy about is that I arrived quite healthy, which was a nice bonus of the seat I got myself.. A shock when I hit US soil, is that the people from customs, taxi and the hotel couldn't really speak english very well. With all of them I had something : "What the fuck are they saying???" and they had that with me too I guess. In the end it was nice to meet some people who actually could speak understandebly English (that is besides my Dutch! collegues) I am not saying everyone should be able to talk English, but at least be understandable if you speak.. Today we'll go to the San Fracisco Giants - LA Dodgers baseball match and in the evening a NLUG dinnerparty at AZIE around seven..

Builiding a house of glass..

My brother and his girlfriend is soon going to start building a house of glass in Mol, Belgium. A very interesting project to say the least and I defintely don't want to stand in their shoes regarding the task of window washing :)
We have made a website for it, named www.glazenhuis.com, where you can see the design, 3d images of the anticipated result and pictures of the progress.
The dutch website is here and the English website is here.

I am still doubting about the present they are going to get when they moved in : Window cleaner or a hammer with lot's of nails :)

Eclipse 3.1.2 released

See http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/readme_eclipse_3.1.2.html
for the list of 66 issues that they resolved.

Maven 1 SVG Plugin released

I finally released the maven1 SVG Plugin See http://www.mvdb.org/maven/plugins/svg/
It just converts svg images to jpg and/or png.
The version is 1.1 and the only thing changed is that it depends on batik 1.6 which solves a problem of parsing images without any size settings.

A maven2 version of the plugin will follow..

Have fun...