Roberto Cosenza

I hade to give my dream of the "Svenska klassiker". Last sunday I had to give up while swimming the Vansbrosimmning (3 km in open water). I was too slow and after 2 km I was forced to stop. I really underestimate this race, what a pity.

Today I reached 1000 km of bike training since 1st march! This was the goal I had in mind before the Vätternrunda, the 300 km race I will run in a couple of weeks. Unfortunately today the weather was the worst weather I have ever biked in. It was not raining but the air was so humid that it felt like.

[fa:p:a=oppet-spar-2007,id=2235048981,j=l,s=s,l=i] Il 25 febbraio ho partecipato al mio primo "Öppet spår". L' Öppet spår , insieme alla Vasaloppet é una delle gare di sci da fondo amatoriale organizzate nell'ambito della "Vasaloppsveckan" (settimana della Vasaloppet). Sia la Vasaloppet che l' Öppet Spår consistono in 90 km di fondo in tecnica classica (cioé é vietato usare il famoso passo pattinato e si procede con gli sci paralleli all'interno dei i binari tracciati per tutta la lunghezza del percorso tranne che, ovviamente, in salita). L' Öppet spår si differenzia dalla Vasaloppet per la mancanza di professionisti ed é stata creata per venir fronte all'elevatissimo numero di sciatori che vogliono parteciparvi (ca 15.000 iscritti annui alla Vasaloppet, le cui iscrizioni chiudono anche 10 mesi prima della gara stessa, e circa 10.000 partecipanti all'Öppet Spår, ripartiti in due giorni) Sveglia alle 4. Abbondante colazione a base di ...

Today I attended at jfokus , a conference on java and on its future now that Sun is moving to the open-source world. I found most of the presentations of pretty low level and some of them of low quality. Maybe they just had to announce what kind of knowledge an attendant was supposed to have. Moreover, the names of the presentation was often misleading in my opinion. As I suspected, the smoke which has been raised around the Rails/Ruby has also contaminated the java world with the jRuby stuff. But it is all smoke as I said and I can't wait to see the moment in which the Rails phenomena will provide anything really useful to the business world. A speech that I found interesting was the presentation of Spring web-services by Arjen Poutsma from Interface21. Anyway, it was nice to be at the conference and be reminded that there is life out there in the programming World!

Last week I finally had the opportunity to practise some cross country skiing. The snow has finally come to Stockholm and, altough not a lot, it was enough to let me go on a couple of trips. Check my training schedule on FunBeat In about a month I will run for "öppet spår", one of the cross country events part of the vasaloppet 's week.

Infoflex har pubblicerat en ny sajt för att lansera våra MVC konsult -tjänsterna. Genom denna nya sajten kommer vi att erbjuda mentorskap, utveckling och drift av MVC applikationer baserat mest på Spring och Hibernate men också på Rails och andra teknologier.

We at Infoflex have published a new website www.mvcexpert.se to remark the new business we have started this year. Through this site we will provide consulting and mentoring for MVC projects, mostly based on Spring and Hibernate but also on other technologies as Rails. The site is mainly in Swedish since our company is located in Stockholm (Sweden).