It took a little longer than we expected but on May 7th at 14:30 we were finally able to take the newest memember of our family home!

Here are his stats:

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Last year I decided that I would get my motorcycle license in Germany. I already have a Canadian motorcycle license but the agreement between Canada and German only covers class 'B' vehicles, meaning all two-track vehicles under 3500 Kg.

The German drivers license system is not particularly the easiest so I am quite thankful that while I can not simply transfer my Canadian for German license I 'only' have to take the theory and practical tests. I say only because a normal drivers license can cost thousands if you have to go through the entire process with required classroom and driving hours.

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I write this blog mostly for my own enjoyment and to hopefully provide people who read my blog with some insightful and useful information every now and then.

I like to receive comments from my readers on what they think of my articles, whether they like them or not, or give me suggestions on what I can do better, or ask questions.

You do realize of course that I delete every single spam comment you post and will eventually resort to moderating my comments, so why don't you do everyone a huge favor and just piss off eh?

Yours Sincerely,

It took a little longer than anticipated (partly my own fault) but the server migration is finally complete.

I am now on a CF8 server instead of the old MX6.1 server. This means I can write up some working CF8 tutorials/examples instead of resorting to screenshots :)

Happy Migration day...

"Two Dozen Programmers, three years, 4,732 bugs, and one quest for transcendent software" reads the teaser for Dreaming in Code, the book that just arrived from Amazon.com. It's a gift from and old colleague and friend Tom H. from Washington DC. Thanks Tom!

I still need to finish Necessary but not Sufficient by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. If you haven't heard about this book it's a book about critical chain management written as a novel especially for the software industry instead of a typical theory book. It seeks to teach by using a classic problem/solution metaphor. It is light reading and by now a bit dated but I still recommend it.

Happy Coding Reading...

An article on OSNews.com explains the intricate details on how code review panels rate code.

Read the full article

I would like to wish everyone a Happy and Prosperous New Year.

2007 was an exciting and interesting year for me. While I moved to Germany at the end of 2006, 2007 was the real beginning of our new life in Europe.

2007 was also a busy year: I visted about 30 Biergartens, started this blog, attended Oktoberfest, went to my first Adobe Max conference, went sailing at the Lake of Garda, and went Skiing in the Alps! And not to forget the many biking and hiking trips in Germany, Austria and Italy.

If last year is any indication of what 2008 will be it will be another great year!

Things have been really quiet around here, I think most people have gone away for the Holiday's. Most of my co-workers, like me, have decided to take some time off over Christmas and New Years and my boss decided to give us both Christmas-eve and New Years eve off.

This will be my last post in 2007! I have been relaxing as much as I can and at the same time thinking of new projects to work on in 2008. The problem is I have so many things I would like to work on and have a hard time prioritizing the huge list or trimming it down into something a little more manageable. After all there must be a clear border between work (and play work) and family, neither should suffer but most importantly family first!

I really need to sit down and prioritize my list or I won't get anything done.

And that is my New Years Resolution for 2008!

Until Next Year.

Happy Coding...

Yesterday I hit the slopes at Brauneck Mountain with a colleague of mine for the first time since 1994. It was also the first time I have ever gone skiing in the Alps, or any real mountain for that matter.

The weather was truly amazing, we are currently experiencing a temperature inversion so the weather in the mountains was warmer than in Munich, it was perhaps 5 Degrees (40F) at 1700 meters! I had to take my outer layer off it was so warm.

I had thought that everyone and their dog would be there but thankfully a lot of people were still out Christmas shopping so it didn't start getting busy until after lunch.

This won't be the last time I go skiing, the view of the Mountains from the top is really breath-taking!

...of my new design?

The layout is provided by the folks over at Studio 7 and the banner image is one of my own. I took the picture in Nova Scotia, Canada near Peggys Cove.

I will probably tweak the color scheme a bit but I wanted desparately to change the default Blog CFC design (no offense Ray).

I welcome your comments and/or suggestions