It’s gotten to be a yearly event to visit Sofia in the early part of winter. I’ll be visiting again in a few weeks for the conference on the 18th and 19th of November. The Java2Days conference is a mix of Java, Cloud and Mobile development talks and has always been a great time. Between the wonderful hosts who organize the event, to the awesome attendees, it’s definitely a conference to make time for every year.

Hope to see some of you there if you’re anywhere near Bulgaria. And if you’re in Portugal over the next week, I’m there too.

Ciao!

We’re nearing completion on writing a book for O’Reilly about WebSocket. The book will be released soon as currently available in Early Release on the publisher’s site. It’s been quite a ride taking the concept from a blank page, to over 150 pages of in-depth discussion about WebSocket and I’m totally excited to share it with you soon.

In a few years it may be possible to get a degree in writing headlines for websites looking to suck in readers. BuzzFeed, Gawker and similar have mostly mastered the art of misdirection, pulling you in with a shocking or tantalizing headline only to be let down by the relative ho hum of the payoff. Videos that we’ve seen several times, the tear jerkers, the shocking, the unlikely hero who doesn’t hold our idea of beauty but can really sing.