January 27, 2006

Return to the Island and The Hall

My good friend PJ Cabrera left some comments on my previous blog entry, and I wanted to highlight it for anyone interested in software development that targets Linux base hand held devices.

The Bayamon Campus of the Interamericana University in Puerto Rico has invited me to take part of a conference in which I will give a 45 minute presentation on the use of Open Source in the enterprise. Their conference will be held at the Baymon Campus on February 2nd. I don't know if it is open to the general public but I presume that it is intended for their Computer Science alumni. I will be in Puerto Rico until the 8th of February, so if you want to get together to talk about mono or other cool stuff, send me an email to paco at mfcon dot com.

Mono Hall of Fame

Back in September 2004, my reporting official at Healthvision asked me during my annual evaluation what were my goals for 2005. I told him that I was going to work very hard that year to make it into the Mono Hall of Fame. He said that this was a good goal but that he was looking for something a bit more associated with our department goals. Is a good thing that both my ex boss and I are no longer employed by Healthvision and that I left before the next reporting period because I would have had some points taken towards my next pay increase ^_^.

Now that I made you smile, I would like to call your attention to someone that I truly believe is an unsung hero. This guy is always helping others both in IRC and in the Mailing list and has also contributed with Mono.Posix libraries as well as great helpful tools like type-reflector. He has also done the technical review for a pretty good book on cross platform .NET development and as far as I know he is not in the Novell payroll as a mono developer. Jonathan Pryor (jonp) does not have a blog (that I know of) so I can't link him directly, but if you see him over in IRC or if you want to leave a comment in this page feel free to give Jon a pat in the back.

Thank you jonp.

Update:
Turns out that Jonathan does have a blog.

Posted by martinf at January 27, 2006 08:33 AM
Comments

I fully agree. Although I'm not a regular #mono visitor Jonathan has helped me a quite a few times with ugly marshalling issues I encountered while working on my gimp-sharp stuff. So from me: thanks jonp!

Posted by: Maurits at January 27, 2006 08:54 AM

Hi Paco,

Actually, the conference is at the Condado Marriott. We're going out in style, with a big bang! :-)

Posted by: PJ Cabrera at January 27, 2006 12:05 PM

Hey Paco,

Just a small revision. We've hit the big time, and this conference will not be on campus baut at the San Juan Mariott Ballroom. The web page for rhe conference is at: http://snapplatform.org/caribesoft. It is open to the public, but there are fees involved.

kevin()

Posted by: Kevin Shockey at January 27, 2006 12:16 PM

Oh, and it is open to the general public. $60 per person, includes lunch and a VIP cocktail after the conference ends.

Students from any institution (not just Interamerican University students) pay only $10.

Posted by: PJ Cabrera at January 27, 2006 12:17 PM