Romulus technical meeting in Madrid

Today has finished the 3-days technical meeting of Romulus. In the first day we've worked in the UPM (Universitad Politecnica de Madrid) class room.

For the second day Carlos Iglesias has organized the entire working day in Segovia, a beautiful city at about one hour from Madrid. We've worked inside a agritourism and eaten a lot of home made food. In the afternoon we have had the social roundtrip in the Segovia city. If you're in Madrid you can't not to visit Segovia! There are a lot of monuments in a so small city. The catedral, the Fortress and the Roman waterworks, all in perfect state. It seems they was built in the past year.

This morning we went back to the UPM class room in order to finish the last pending works and give the new action points. Asset Data is envolved in almost all the activities and I know that when I'm back to Italy a huge work expects me and my company for the next months.

Am I Tired? Not at all. Instead, I'm very excited to go back to work to the new Roma Meta Framework version 2.0 and contributing to the growth of Romulus consortium & technology.

Tomorrow is the last day. Luigi will take the flight in the early morning. Giordano and me, instead, will go to the Toledo city for a fast trip. Just the time to see the centre of the city, buy a tipical medieval sword for my house, having lunch with "Pulpo a la Gallega" and go back to Madrid for the our flight.

Bye bye Spain!

Luca, Roma e Romulus: tre amici su Mokabyte

Se non hai proprio nulla da fare, magari perchè stai usando Roma e quindi hai finito prima il tuo lavoro :-), leggiti questa intervista fatta dalla rivista Java più letta in italia: Mokabyte

JavaDay III edition

The 3rd edition of the JavaDay is gone. 1.400 visitors: 1225 workers, 363 student, 74 unemployeed.

The AssetData's stand has received more than 300 curricula. For this reason I've take the decision to build from stratch an application to collect all them using Roma Meta Framework. After 1 hour it worked, but the GUI is not yet very intuitive...

During the event I encounter Paolo, a very old collegue of about 12 years ago in my second project for the IRI group. I have seen again a lot of other past collegues and friends...

I love the JavaDay also for this reason :-)

(photo by Valerio Casale)

Recupero crediti? Non ho il fisico

Da quando sono diventato uno pseudo-commerciale e seguo i clienti direttamente mi capita, ahimè, di occuparmi anche di RECUPERO CREDITI. Eggià. Clienti che chiedono servizi, consulenze, prodotti e poi dopo mesi arrancano sempre le solite scuse. Le 5 migliori del 2008 sono state:

1. La nostra banca si è fusa in un gruppo più grande e non riusciamo a fare i bonifici!
2. La società è in ottima salute...Ma abbiamo problemi di cassa
3. I nostri clienti non ci hanno pagato...
4. La fattura è stata smarrita (fu consegnata a mano!)
5. Abbiamo deciso che vi pagheremo solo se riusciamo a rivenderlo al cliente finale (dopo 3 mesi dalla consegna)
   

Diciamo che non ho propriamente il fisico per fare "recupero crediti". E quindi ecco il motivetto che mi accompagnerà nel 2009:

"Soffro lo strees
io soffro lo stress
sono stanco e fuori forma
vado in giro per clienti
a recuperare i pagamenti
ci deve essere un errore!!!"

Gnocchi on Wednesday

Today is Wednesday. In Italy is not the classic day to eat Gnocchi (it should be Thursday), but today Luigi and Alessandra made an exception. In the interview Luigi told about your Gnocchi recipe: "I simply apply the design patterns on cooking".

First one AssetData Go-Kart contest

Today, friday June 15th 2007 there will be the first one AssetData Go-Kart contest: an event organized by me some days ago. There will be a bounche of AssetData people and some friends that will challange on the road. I think a little bit of sane competition on the road would improve also the reflexes on writing down code :-)

Next upcoming JUG Roma meeting

On the next Thursday 25th January 2007 there will be the ninth JUG meeting in Rome. For the first time the location will be my company: AssetData. To reach the meeting see the offical site: www.jugroma.it.

On Tomorrow morning I'll leave Rome to follow a customer in Milan. If the air company will not make the usual delay I should came back on Thursday 4:30 PM to the Leonardo Da Vinci Airport. Just in time to reach AssetData before the starting of meeting!!! ;-)


Below the agenda, in italian:

Primo talk (non tecnico): 18.00-18.40

Titolo: JavaPolis: io c'ero! Cosa è successo e di cosa si è parlato
Relatori: Alessio Pace, Paolo Argangeli, Simone Federici

Jug Session 8.40-19.20

• Brindisi per il primo compleanno del Jug Roma
• restyling di www.jugroma.it (chi si offre? Come? raccolta idee e formazione di un gruppo di lavoro per il nuovo sito)
• creazione di corsi java under 18 a cura dei membri del jug (idea fattibile? Come?)
• proposte JugRoma 2007
• acquisto di un VirtualServer per il Jug (valutazione)

Secondo talk(tecnico):19.20-20.20

Titolo: Antipatterns: se li conosci, li eviti!
Relatori: Simone Federici e Giorgio Vinci