I made my way to Maarten who was very nice to let me stay at his place. The trip was very stressful since the locomotive of the first train broke down, and I had only five minutes to catch the next train and buy a ticket. I skipped the ticket acquisition and hoped I could buy it on the train. Luckily that is still possible in Belgium.

I have some mixed feelings about the EuroOSCON conference. Honestly, there aren't that many sessions that interest me. I'm giving my presentation on Tuesday, and after that, there isn't anything that I feel like attending besides Bob's Codehaus talk. I'm also curious about the audience since this is an open-source conference and not a Java developers conference. I hope people will be able to follow my presentation since it is quite technical.

I will thus go back home Tuesday evening since I've been away a lot lately and would like to get some work done again. I still have a lot of ideas from Java In Action that I want to investigate and I need to start working on our new CMS/Wiki product.

Anyway, I'll be going to the Presentation Aikido session tomorrow morning, hoping that it will be interesting. Sadly there's no abstract available, so it might not be what I expect from it. After that, I'll be going to Model-Driven Ajax, hoping that I will learn something that makes me reconsider my pessimistic view on the usefulness of Ajax as a general-purpose RIA development platform.

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