think of it!

Yesterday somebody told me a really interesting saying:

“If your only tool is hammer, it is likely that all your problems will look like nails!”

I like this a lot! Cheers

The future of Java

Today I had the pleasure to attend a workshop on the future of Java. Thorbiörn Fritzon, who is working as system architect for Sun Nordic talked about the new technoligies the Java platform will focus on.

The first innovation he was talking about is the brand new JavaFX Script, which is designed to be an competiting technology for rich internet applications.

The second thing is the new scripting capability of Java, which allows it basically to use any scripting language, for which the scripting engine is available.

So thank you Sun for this event and the effort that is taken to inform students, what is going on in the world of Java!

good carma!

Still can’t believe it: today I went to Cafe String in Södermalm and had tea there. It appeared to happen, that I found a Nikon D50 camera right next to the sink in the bathroom when I went there.

Being the nice nice guy I am, I took the camera and gave it to the bar man – in the hope that he would give the camera to who ever it belongs to – in case this person would show up and ask for it.

Anyway, later this day I was thinking, that this was actually pretty stupid to give back a camera, which is worth about 500 Euros… however, I was treated so well by the destiny these days (I lost my room keys twice and got them back both times without any problems) that I think it was definitly the right thing to do So I hope this recharges my good-carma-account.

300km beyond the Polar Circle

Here some impressions of the Kiruna trip at the end of November:

Trip to Tallin

Last week some friends and I went to Tallin, in order to check out one more of the baltic cities, which are really easy to reach from Sthlm.

As the weather forecast predicted, the waves were nice and small and fortunately the ‘Near Gale Warning’ (see image) was a little bit ambitious.

Tallin itself is definitely worth a visit! Probably one of the most interesting cities around the Baltic See.

Thanks to Simon, who is living at the moment in Tallin, we got really nice impressions of the city and excellent coffee

Challenging the Baltic Sea

This afternoon I am going to depart to Tallin – again with a ferry from Tallink. I am not sure if this is a good idea but I checked the wave forecast of the Finnish Institute Of Marine Research.

According to these forecast results, the weather is going to be nice and calm – nothing compared to the light gale we got into, when we travelled back from Riga a week ago.