eLiberatica 2008 is over, long live eLiberatica.
It’s been a great conference, with wonderful speakers and just as wonderful participants, you really should take a look at the conference website.

The eLiberatica 2008 speakers
The main topics of the conference have been open source adoption in the enterprise, open source business models and licensing. Conferences like eLiberatica raise […]

What about a place where you can post your software wishes? Interested? Keep reading!
The other day I was thinking about dedicating some of my time to improve some piece of software (didn’t really matter what), just to give something back (yes, a weird concept).
The starting point
To kick-off the process of fulfilling my goal, I started […]

This week I had the pleasure of reading Brian Tracy’s Eat That Frog!, one of the best productivity shorts I’ve ever read. I’m not that into reading self-help books, but I do enjoy reading short ones on how to improve personal productivity.
The book isn’t fresh (2002 vintage) but it does cover a lot of aspects […]

It’s a known fact: I like maven.
It improves some aspects of the development process but it also has a lot of drawbacks.
One of these drawbacks comes directly from maven’s online distributed repository architecture and can make your build process unbearable and worst of all non-reproducible.
The usage of maven assumes the presence of all required repositories […]

I started the new year nicely, although I currently have a nasty flue. My life is the same, I go to work as usual, when I wake up and I come home (as usual) when I finish. Short deadlines and administrative chores cut down on my free time, so I don’t really have enough time […]