Up North

As usual I take long to upload photos, I really lack a good program to manage photos…

Imendio Crew 2005

We had a blast during the Imendio get-together in the end of October and it was great to meet up with everyone again. First time meeting Kris since he started working for us and Martyn started his career at Imendio with the conference.As you can see in the photos the weather wasn’t perfect when we were out fishing but then again, that’s the supposed weather while fishing, right? After the fishing we had a heated bath barrel and chilled beer waiting for us so no worries there.

Tomorrow will be a big day at Imendio, it’s going to be Martyns first day for us and it’s going to be the first time all eight of us meet up together.

We’ve been going from two persons (Me and Richard) to eight (Me, Richard, Anders, Mitch, John, Tim, Kris and now Martyn) since this time last year.

We’ve booked a nice conference facility in the Stockholm archipelago where we’ll spend Thursday to Sunday.

Tonight Kris will get in here since there were no flights early enough from Netherlands. Should give us time to sample the beer to make sure it tastes as it should before going to an island with no place to buy new…

Arrived back from the Boston Summit 2005 earlier this morning. The flight back went well and it feels good to start the process of getting all the cheese out of my system.

Was a lot of fun to meet up with everyone again and the summit was great even though I didn’t get much hacking done. I mean, it’s not everyday you hear Alex comment that: “Daniel you look like David Hasselhof” and get an “I second that” from Jonathan.

There was a strong focus on performance which is great, we really need work done in this area. D-Trace looked really useful but at the moment is Solaris only and what I heard was intentionally made GPL-incompatible. Mark showed me SystemTap which seems to aim to provide us with better tools too.

There was a scheduled BOF for discussing IM for GNOME but it was sadly canceled. Would have been good to get something happening in that area.