It's been more than a year that I'm working for Sonatype (mainly on Nexus), the successor of Proximity. It was a great year, spent with cool people, and with great events like (in order as they happened):
- my daughter was born,
- we released Nexus 1.0 to general public.
The events were originally planned to be in the opposite order, but Brian was delaying Nexus with his nitty-gritty wishes -- you know him ;) --, and my daughter decided to take over. All this happened before almost 8 months. So, sorry for this late report.
But since then, my daughter was contributing a lot to quality, design and implementation of Nexus MRM. Almost at the start, she jumped in the role of "lead gaffer" (it resembles the "superman" pose slightly):
Also, she insisted on using the "thinking hat" very much, when solving almost impossible tasks requested by Brian:
Examined all the tools she had at disposal to solve problems:
She had a lot of "developer to developer"-like consultations with some open-source gurus:
And attended the "How to write server applications to suite all Brian's needs, 2008" conference held in Prague (no, she was not having beer, rather just "light refreshing discussion"):
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Oh, and why was it a "late event"? Since we have a huge shift in timezones (I am GMT+2, Brian is GMT-4 and mr. Cupertino is usually GMT-7, if not at home), and I am the "minority" -- at least in head-count. So, the common sense dictated that I should live the "vampire life" and follow their work hours, as I did.
And my daughter Petra was patient, she waited for me to finish, and came at the end of my work day, hence, in late hours in local time.
Written by Tamas Cservenak
Tamas is a former Senior Develoepr at Sonatype. He has over 15 years of experience developing software systems in Public Services, Telco and Publishing industries.
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