I have not been flying too many economy long haul flights lately, and was awakened by some remarks from my Lufthansa "flight attendant". I asked about the choice I have for drinks, and was not happy with the brands they had. She said " this is economy, it's free ".

I remember talking with some friends at some point in the past about the service (actually the lack of service would be more acurate) in economy class, and I believe it was Clemens that dubbed it "Cattle Class"...

8/9/2005 1:19:48 AM UTC     

    Oh Boy, Oh Boy... during the month of June, I spent all my time in Hotels, planes, airport lounges ... etc. I only spent three nights sleeping on my bed.

   So, lots of traveling, no so much time for my friends - but I will make up for it  - and a great number of things to blog. I will rest a little bit today, and enjoy a an evening alone at home... Staring tomorrow, I will be blogging about Mauritius Island, Pakistan Developer Conference, Dubai, Lagos, Nairobi and Mombasa. I even have some fun stories like having been baptised with a new name : "Wambua" which litteraly means "Rain Man"... and that was only a side effect of having to have a tribe...

   I am really looking forward to a couple of days of "normality". before I go back to more travel and even more madness.

6/28/2005 9:28:42 AM UTC     

Check this out :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/elearning/

6/4/2005 3:23:41 PM UTC     

I have been googling myself today (I never said my ego was not super inflated), and stumbled upon an a blog entry talking about the presentation on .Net vs. J2EE I did in Riyadh last month (The entry is in Arabic). There are a few things I think I should correct, as I think the remarks were not ill intended:

• The author claims that I said I would be perfectly neutral. I would have been foolish to claim perfectness in anything. I have only said that I would be as neutral as possible, and precised that I my own personnal choice was very clear, and that I prefered .Net
• The author said that I didn't succeed in being neutral, and that I was too favorable to .Net. I have had many reactions from attendees that were favorable to .Net that said that I was giving J2EE much more credit than it deserves. I believe that when people are there to discuss, we can talk in a serene and calm technical atmosphere.

5/27/2005 1:42:23 PM UTC     

I have not been blogging lately, and will not be doing much of it in the next few days... It is very hard for me to cope with this...

5/9/2005 11:23:32 PM UTC     

As I promised during my sessions at the Microsoft Zirvesi, here are my slide decks (I will be publishing the demos later).

Visual Studio 2005 : new features for the web services developer (926 KB)

DotNet vs j2ee (1.4 MB)

Developing Mobile Web Applications With ASP.NET (1.65 MB)

Compact Framework _ part 1 (3.78 MB)

Compact Framework _ part 2 (1.47 MB)

5/2/2005 8:20:15 AM UTC