Starting over

After a long time with nothing new here I’ll try to post something at least once a month (I hope I can do it :-).

Now let me say a few words about what has happened in the first half of 2007. After being directly involved with BlueZ and CarMan development I went to Germany for three months to do a consulting work on Maemo and embedded Linux in general. Overall, it was a nice experience but I’m really glad to be back in Brazil among my friends and relatives.

I’m back in Brazil for over a month now and I’m working on the new version of Canola with the rest of the team. I’m working in the infrastructure of this new Canola in Python and also in the low-level integration of CarMan (see this post from Marcelo). I’ll try to post later some of the glitches and things I’ve been working on lately. Stay tuned, because we’re working hard to make this new Canola rock even more! :-)

All in one

Yeah, I can hear you saying I should do one post for each one of the things I’ll comment here, but… I think it’s too late for that. :-)

Well, first of all, OLS was really fun. Meeting people, seeing some of the most famous persons like Alan Cox and Andrew Morton and getting to know what are the trends in Linux kernel development now was great. I can say that new file systems, virtualization and power management were the main topics. I’ve also met Iñaky Pérez-González and we’ve talked about contributing code to the UWB project. Let’s see if we can work that out. :-)

OLS itself was great, but going to Ottawa and coming back home turned out to be really painful. We missed a flight on our way to Ottawa and arrived there only 28 hours after we left Recife. However, coming back home was even worse. It took us 48 hours to come back home because United Airlines screwed us badly by overbooking our connection in Washington. Since they have only two flights to Brazil, we had to wait a whole day to fly to Sao Paulo. But this wasn’t enough for United, we weren’t confirmed for the next flight, we’re only waitlisted and that meant we could stay another day in Washington! This was really disrespectful. Arriving in Sao Paulo was another nightmare, because we’ve already lost our connection there (of course) and had to wait several hours to fly to Recife. After all this drama we’ve managed to get back home safe. United sucked big time. Grrrr…

Going to OLS was really good and now I have lots of things to do for BlueZ (thanks to Marcel Holtmann :-) and lots of ideas related to virtualization. I’m thankful that INdT sent me there. It’s time to work hard now..

I think it’s nice to travel but coming back home is even better! I really missed Dotty (my beautiful girl and future wife :-) while I was in Ottawa. Maybe we can go there together some other time.. :-)