My presentation @ ApacheCon US 2008
I am in New Orleans, attending a good ApacheCon US edition. Today I feel much more relaxed, after having given my talk yesterday afternoon.
I have published my presentation on SlideShare; if you are interested in Apache Tika, please have a look!
And now I am an Italian Bob Team member!
Today I was in Cesana Pariol, the Torino 2006 Olympic Bobsleigh, Skeleton and Luge track, to perform my first ever Bob experience.
In a few words: imagine yourself sliding on an ice half pipe, going in corners at a more than 130km per hour speed, in a more than 90 degrees slope, for 19 corners in 1400 meters, completed in 57 seconds.
After making this imagination effort, please believe me, change your expectations!
The real thing is: you are in a really small iron box, holding yourself tight to stand up to knocks and direction changings, watching your feet and your pilot’s back, trying to remember where is the last corner… because you must brake after it..
OK. It is something more exciting than that… I just wanted to give an extreme view of my experience… that was really great.
I am sure I will come back here with new details, because I am quickly discovering that Bob is not just running and going fast but it is hard work as well.
Sourcesense and Microsoft partnership announced
Today at 8 p.m CET Microsoft has announced its partnership with Sourcesense.
Visit microsoft PR page to know all the details.
I’m very proud to announce this partnership as I am one of the involved developers. It is going to be an important step for my company on the way to spread Open Source in the Enterprise industry.
We are developing the Office open XML support inside the POI Apache project. New Microsoft Spreadsheets (Office 2007 format) will be soon java manageable!
