It's been a while...

It's been quite a while since I have been blogging and, now that the school year is well underway and things are getting a bit more quiet around the house, I intend to start posting a bit more regularly again. Just some random picks out of what I have been doing the past year instead of blogging...

• In January, I was really honored by the invitation to become an Apache Software Foundation Member.


• In March, there was a talk about Scalate for BeJUG. We also released Apache ServiceMix 4.3.0 that month.


• Over the summer, we did some redecorating in the house - what was supposed to be a simple change to the electrical wiring, quickly ended up being almost two weeks of hacking walls, adding and removing outlets, plastering, painting, …


• A few weeks ago, we went on a weekend vacation with the kids at the seaside and it just happened to be the warmest October weekend in decades

At the FuseSource side, we did several FUSE ESB releases this year (starting with FUSE ESB 4.3.1-fuse and just did FUSE ESB 4.4.1-fuse a few weeks ago) so I spent quite a bit of time doing release work and even now I'm again working on getting the Apache codebase ready for an Apache ServiceMix 4.4.0 release. Anyway, I'm hoping to be able to tell you a bit more about that in one of the next blog posts.