Archive for February, 2007

Strange, I survived

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

This day is the most nervous day in my life. First mavenization started, after commit we realized that where are some web-guys. which have problems to run tomcat and other stuff, so we want rollback and than SVN refuse to cooperate with us.

I fight with time seeking another solutions. As it was not enough, our product manager arrived. And this day my presentation starts at 6 pm. Nightmare!!!.

Suddenly I looked outside the window, and to my surprise the sun goes out of the clouds. Michal comes back, and said that we don’t rollback. So I think to myself maybe this day is not so bad.

My Ruby on Rails presentation on wjug meeting close ruby and java worlds, I hope so. Maybe one day we stand together on the ‘right’ side, we’ll see. And maybe we make our conference.

Next post mavenization is nearly ready, today I’m to tired to post it.

Pedro

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Mavenization Holded

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

Eh, life isn’t fair. Two minutes before final commit mavenization was canceled, so I must put on hold my mavenization post. Next time Gadget next time.

On the other hand I prepare for wjug presentation on Tuesday; it’s about ruby on rails. I’m afraid a little because java vs. ruby evangelism. In my opinion java programmer can teach so much from ruby ones, and maybe in java 7 or 8 we see some ruby like syntax.

I will talk about Ruby, Rails and of course new template engine HAML, it’s beautiful, and I think another posts counting keystroke are coming.

See you.

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My name is Sebastian Pietrowski. I've finished Warsaw University as Master degree. During my studies I started work for merlin.pl. The primary language I use is Java but I have also programmed in Python, Ruby and Scala. I worked as a technical solution architect at merlin.pl. infrastructure when we were moving from PL/SQL to J2EE. I engineering a great performance optimized solution that made the application 10 times faster than requirements and 85 times faster as original solution.

Currently, I am working as a Senior Expert at F.Hoffmann-La Roche to help define future roadmap in design and development of Enterprise software at Roche and Genentech and build adoption for new technologies. I'm continuously mentoring new developers, helping them understand how important test driven development is and empowering them to get better at their daily job. I'm involved in many activities which brings new technologies for better and faster development. You can find more details on my LinkedIn profile.

But don’t get me wrong, I am not your typical nerd. I'm a pleasant guy that you can drink a glass of wine with me and talk about a range of topics with. My leisure activities include playing basketball, soccer and listening to music. I try to be pragmatic while staying focused on application performance and tuning with success in my daily work.

My favorite quote from Yoda's and my life’s motto is: Do, or do not. There is no try.