Archive for May, 2007

Some news after may long weekend

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

MooTools have just released version 1.1, What is MooTools ? From MooTools site „MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented javascript framework designed to make writing extensible and compatible code easier and faster. MooTools lets you get the job done efficiently and effectively.”
In version 1.1 they have optimized speed, added demos. In my opinion when you don’t have enough JS skills, MooTools allows you to achieve many nice to eye visual site decoration without pain.

Another exciting news is Sun JavaFx. Last time when I was written about Silverlight and new war between M$ and Adobe. Sun has one word to add here : “JavaFx”. The project is interesting, I looked at the demos, but I don’t know it’s not too late for this, maybe in mobile, I don’t know. But certainly I will look closer at this project later. For now it’s very controversial, but SUN can’t be wrong ;) .

Google Analytics has new functions and fillings, the second version is more web2.0 application.
I still waiting for upgrading, but friend of mine already have had upgrade. It’s look nice, has more functionality and Avinash Kaushik made great description of it

Commons Configuration version 1.4 it’s helpful library from ASF. It provide a generic interface to manage application configuration. The configuration can be read from such sources as Properties files, XML documents, JDBC , System properties, Servlet parameters and few more.

If you are sentimental, so you should appreciate gays who writes old machine emulation. Last release of amiga emulator WinUAE improves “fullscreen” mode. Of course there are others ports E-UAE for *-nix systems and Mac which has the same improvements as WinUAE. And of course inspiration for this project UAE. Good to recall hours spends on playing games.

Last quick news, if you Titter Fan so you should look here for Twittersce which allows feed access from mobile phones

SeeYa

about me

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.