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Oh, six months has passed since I last time wrote here. I have been busy. Changed work, buddycloud released web pages, I learned Ruby on Rails, Redis, partisipated OSCON and FSWS ... So much to tell but let's write now only about the last ones.

Mid July I was lucky to be invited to Federated Social Web Summit 2010. There is a great blog post about it by Evan Prodromou and you can read it from here. Anyone interested of this should check also the pages of OStatus. OStatus' goal is to help you to follow people on different social networks. It is a specification and usage of several web standards to allow this functionality, technically.

I was also very lucky to participate OSCON this year. It was a very good trip and I learned a lot from Hadoop related systems to JQTouch. I recommend any open source geek to participate OSCON if possible.

There would be so much thing to write but I don't know where to start ...

Oh yes, and I'm also doing MiniMe microblogger now as a experimental project.

Lots has happened since I last time wrote something here. All more or less XMPP related.

I am now member of the XMPP Standards Foundation. The XMPP Standards Foundation (formerly the Jabber Software Foundation) is an independent, nonprofit standards development organization whose primary mission is to define open protocols for presence, instant messaging, and real-time communication and collaboration on top of the IETF's Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). You can read more about XSF from here.

I have been also working a lot with the Buddycloud project. We have rewritten the system to be based on PubSub instead of MUC. So far it seems that the decicion to do that was correct and the change has been a success.

I also participated FOSDEM and XMPP Summit at Brussels during the beginning of February. You can read more about it here.

Last week I participated Devoxx 2009 conference in Antwerp. It was a great success!

The speaker list was very good. Just to pick some, I really enjoyed Antonio Goncalves' presentation about Java EE 6, Franck Greco's talk about HTML5 and Robert C. Martin's talk about development craftmanship.

I was delighted to see that XMPP was part of so many presentations at the conference. Patrick Chanezon's and Guillaume Laforge's demo of Google's Appengine and Groovy was based on XMPP. Ross Mason's presentation iBeans: dead-simple integration for the Web included examples implementing XMPP. And Ofcourse Frack Greco's presentation HTML 5 Communications - The New Network Framework for the Web was heavily XMPP related.

I think Devoxx 09 was a great success. I hope I have the opportunity to join it next year too!

Those who could not join, please check Devox 09 presentation from Parleys.com.

Since the depression is here, I decided to check my HTML skills and see if I can work on that field too or I should just give up and start begging like the guy on the left. Hmm, sadly even our CV's look the same.

I tried begging and I sucked at it. I was very good going the drinking part though... So I need to keep my programming skills up.

Well, the real reason why this site exists is that I needed to set up my own XMPP server for my personal use. Luckily my girlfriend's laptop was old enough so I bought her a new one and the old one has now new responsibilities.

After the XMPP server was up and running I wanted to try some jQuery stuff since I needed to do a small project with that at work. Finally I ended up doing this site too.