Book recommendation: Azincourt bei Bernard Cornwall
Just to get a quick tip off: This saturday I by pure chance bought Azincourt by Richard Cornwall. I’m very interested in medieval history and also love a good yarn with medieval background. So far I only managed the first 156 pages but I am having a lot of fun following the adventures of Nicholas Hook, english forester, outlaw, archer and more on his way to the famous battle of Agincourt/Azincourt. Well written, interesting so far, decent characters (by far not as great as in the First Law trilogy though). If you want some pretty well researched medieval storytelling, here you go!
For a long time I was not interested in blogs, twitter and all this social web 2.0 stuff – mostly because I thought that I would not have the time to care about these things. But things are more complicated than I would have expected… hints would be appreciated to save me some time. 
Occasionally someone asks (especially some 
Since I just talked to some colleagues about this I would like to recommend the following trilogy to anyone in fantasy literature. It’s not for children, it’s different and it’s… brutal. But the characters in the trilogy are some of the most unlikely and different characters I have seen in a long time. And the author, Joe Abercombie, really has a talent for very swtring characterization and the language skills to suit that talent.
The most interesting thing about conferences (besides having the chance to hear about something you simply missed while being distracted by your normal daily workload) is that you can meet all kind of interesting people. Well, actually you can all kind of people and some are more interesting than others. But if you manage to identify the particularly interesting people and get to talk to them about your and their interests, this really can widen your horizon (not really surprising, but I need to remind myself of that every once in a while when I sit in a particularly boring or uninspired talk). Yesterday night we explored Amsterdam and actually had a very interesting discussion about what we perceive to be major problems of the software engineering discipline as a whole – not with someone new we met but with a 
Ok, here we are on the way to the SpringOne keynote. Interesting experiences on the way… parking in Amsterdam is the 50 Euros per day. Not bad for a tiny parking lot smelling like some yellow fluid on the ground. Wifi is something that does not seem to work in NH Krasnapolsky. But who needs that in 21st century? Well, ok, it only took 30 minutes to log in. So it does work… for some definition of “work”.
Just a short interruption between conferences (tomorrow I’ll travel to 
(Disclaimer: this text was written while listening to the presentation – please be forgiving with errors that might result from both listening and writing)
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