Breckenridge, Colorado with Lili

 

39°28'56.2"N 106°03'54.4"W

Skating with Konrad and Dorota

Skating with Konrad (Uki and Dorota)

Having family and friends over is a joy

Michael Bublé - Haven't Met You Yet [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

It is funny how we are all dreaming of having that perfect person in our lives.., and an the end of the day we walk out with only a shopping bag subsistence to show for.. and to get us to another day

Google Netbook Specs Preview

It looks like the specs to the Google Chrome OS netbook were released, here is a link below.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20091227/google-chrome-based-netbook-tech-specs-are-out.htm

Food of the champions: Polish strawberry dumplings

Panda Express (Deja vous)

Brill IP Law Office – Opening January 2010

Brill IP Law Office applies business sense and cost-effectiveness in counseling on intellectual property (IP) legal matters. Robert J. Brill is adept at patent and trademark application preparation and prosecution, in the US and internationally, related searches and opinions, licensing, and further IP counseling. His clients have included startups, small to midsize companies, Fortune 500 companies, and universities worldwide. Bob’s experience covers a wide range of electrical, software, medical, computer, imaging, financial, telecommunications, mechanical, and clean technologies.

read more ..

http://bobbrill.net/?p=2105

Me and Lili

Opening gifts

Maja

Christmas dinner

I wish you the best holidays possible and a happy new year

Dear friends and family,  

I wish you the best holidays possible and a happy new year.  

My most important wish: I hope each one of you can find yourself with the person you care for the most and I hope that person loves you back as much. Really nothing else matters more than that. 

I also wish you a happy new year, not just the celebration at midnight, but the whole next year.   

As many of you know, for me, this last year was very interesting, and fulfilling career-wise with all the conferences and business-relationships formed, I am thankful for that and I want to extend my thankfulness to all of you. 

I am also thankful to my friends and for my little daughter who provided an incredible support to me. I know this year was also very challenging to many of us, for some of us it was the economy, trying to keep the house from the foreclosure, trying to keep or find a job, trying to figure out how to make the next payment, especially painful if you are considering cutting on the education funding for your own child. I know a thing, or two about it. 

Each one of us is going thru the unique life experiences, we experience the most beautiful of moments and we have our periods of depressions and melancholy. 

Despite all the challenges and stress I wish that all of you find in yourself a good heart to forgive and be nice to people who hurt us, to cherish our friends, to have family to call upon and to say "I love you" to the person you love.  

If you find yourself in dire straights this year, don't hesitate to call, or email me, I will do my best to be there for you. 

Merry Christmas for Christians and happy holidays for the rest of us! 

Uki 

MOTODEV Keynote Summit

MOTODEV Summit – January 13, 2010, Beijing China

Please join Christy Wyatt, Corporate Vice President, Software Applications & Services, as we kick off MOTODEV Summit China 2010, with a keynote presentation that will delve into the latest market trends and highlight the opportunities available to you to deliver break-through applications for the next generation of Motorola Android Handsets. Attend to get the big picture perspective to help you navigate through a day of in-depth sessions and tutorials and guide you to the detailed information, tools, and knowledge you need to succeed with Motorola.


Register:
http://developer.motorola.com/eventstraining/summit/beijing10/?utm_campaign=Beijing10-2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=email

Jack Vettriano

I absolutely love Jack Vettriano's art and the depiction of the period!

The Meaning of Open

Here is a great blog post written by Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, Product Management at Google on what it means to be "open" and how Google is actively seeking that goal. I would love to hear people's comments.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html

Grand parents and "babushka"

Visiting grandparents at 336 W Wellington Ave, Chicago 

41°56'12.3"N 87°38'18.8"W

MOTODEV: Motorola's development studio for Android Apps

MOTODEV is Motorola's development studio for Android cell phone applications. Here is some of the key highlights:

• Complete Development Package 
• Code Snippets 
• Application Creation Wizards 
• Database Managemen 
• Localization Files Editor 
• Handset Emulators 
• Virtual Developer Lab 
• Deploy Package 
• Application Signing 
• Marketing Integration 
• Target Motorola Handsets 
• Context-Sensitive Help and Integrated Documentation

HTML5 and GWT might be the future

WIth all the advances in browser technology and HTML5 I am very optimistic about the future of Google Web Toolkit (GWT) which uses JavaScript. 


My only concern is with ability of a lot of users of IE to update to modern browsers, that however, will not stop niche developers (companies) from creating interactive sites, games and communities. There is already a trend to ignore IE6 users altogether.


This is a demo that demonstrates the potential of rendering 3D graphics in the browser, using O3D, an open-source web API for creating rich, interactive 3D applications in the browser. The app shown in the video is coded in JavaScript and HTML and runs in a web browser. Learn more about O3D athttp://code.google.com/apis/o3d

Janusz Radek - Nie widzę ciebie w mych marzeniach

Metro - Chce byc kopciuszkiem

Needed: Architect: Flex UI and Java backend

Job Description:



Evaluate architecture of the existing Flex (Java backend) application for a large client servicing many fortune 500 companies. Provide technical solutions to improve UI speed, scalability and ability to rapidly customize the application for the future clients. Mentor fellow teammates of the best practices of Flex development.



Job Qualifications:


• Experience as system architect and mentor. 
• Minimum of two (2) years of professional Flex application development. 
• Minimum of three (3) years of professional Java application development. 
• Ability to solve problems independently along with a strong teamwork sense, communication skills, often pair-programming and knowledge sharing. 
• Familiarity with open source frameworks such as Hibernate, Spring and Maven. 
• Experience with modern database (MySQL/Oracle) is required. 
• At least some level of experience with UNIX-based server environment (Linux/Mac). 
• Willingness to learn various cutting edge technologies will be required. 
• Understanding of Agile/SCRUM development and other methodologies preferred. 
• Must be able to travel on a limited basis, typically less than 20%. 
• College degree (4 year) or equivalent work experience is required.

Please contact:

Uki D. Lucas
email

"UkiDLucas - at - mac.com"



We are the organizers of Chicago Google Technology conferences:
http://chigtug6.eventbrite.com/

Java: calculate last Saturday

Java method that returns the date of last Saturday with time set to (00:00:00):

public class DateHelper

{

  public static Date getLastSatuerday(Date date)

    {

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();

int weekday = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);

Date lastSat = DateHelper.incrementDays(date, (-weekday));

Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();

cal.setTime(lastSat);

cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);

cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);

cal.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);

cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);

return cal.getTime();

    }

//increment hours of day

    public static Date incrementHours(Date date, int hours)

    {

GregorianCalendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();

calendar.setTime(date);

calendar.add(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, hours);

return calendar.getTime();

    }

}

JUnit test for above method: 

  public void test_getLastSatuerday()

    {

Date date = DateHelper.buildToday();

date = DateHelper.incrementHours(date, 2);

Date weekday = DateHelper.getLastSatuerday(date);

log.warn("Today is: " + date + " , last sat is: " + weekday);

    }

Output:
WARN 2009-12-17 09:05:42.306 com.xxx.xxx.server.common.DateHelperTest.test_getLastSatuerday()
Today is: Thu Dec 17 02:00:00 CST 2009 , last sat is: Sat Dec 12 00:00:00 CST 2009

Needed: Java Google Web Toolkit (GWT) Developer

Job Description:
Development of Java Google Web Toolkit (GWT) based applications for sports community website and other Revere clients while following Revere Open Systems best practices and development culture.

Job Qualifications:

• Minimum of three years of professional Java application development.
• Ability to solve problems independently along with a strong teamwork sense, communication skills, often pair-programming and knowledge sharing.
• Familiarity with open source frameworks such as Hibernate, Spring and Maven.
• Experience with MySQL databases is highly desired.
• Deep understanding of various social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, etc.
• At least some level of experience with UNIX-based server environment (Linux/Mac).
• Willingness to learn various cutting edge technologies will be required.
• Understanding of Agile/SCRUM development and other methodologies preferred.
• Must be able to travel on a limited basis, typically less than 20%.
• Knowledge and passion for various sports is preferable.
• College degree (4 year) or equivalent work experience is required.

contact:
Uki D. Lucas
email "UkiDLucas - at - mac.com"

We are the organizers of Chicago Google Technology conferences:
http://chigtug6.eventbrite.com/

Justin Moore - Mobile Game Development

Watertower from Loyola

Lola dancing Polish highlander dance

maven-compiler-plugin memory management

Here is how you give more memory to maven-compiler-plugin:

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-compiler-plugin/examples/compile-with-memory-enhancements.html

Fixing MySQL after upgrading to Snow Leopard

After upgrading to Snow Leopard, I found that MySQL would not start for me. I found this link that walked me through getting it up and running again.

http://planet-geek.com/archives/2009/09/osx-snow-leopar.html

I haven't had the time to figure out what exactly was messed up in the installation of Snow Leopard. If anyone knows, I would be interested in that nugget of information.

Las Guitarras De Espana

Fun time at the library

CSS override

To override any CSS on an element, use !important as below

#my_widget_id {

background-color: #191919 !important;
/*#191919 is gray */

}

GWT: Speed Tracer Tutorial

Sending mass emails

I was advising a client about a press release they sent with a tiny 0.63% of response rate.

Note: I am not a big fan of email campaigns, I believe the most effective way to communicate is when friends send stuff to friends because it is interesting to them, but sometimes you just have to blast it out...

Few generic pointers:

• make subject is interesting to the recipient, eg. includes a name they recognize (their club, their own)
• make sure the text of the email is short and sweet
• if you are trying to make several points, use short bullets
• avoid too many caps and long paragraphs
• send a sample batch, adjust text and re-sent until you get acceptable response
• ensure that you are addressing the right demographics
• use http://bit.ly/ to track different campaign responses
• use the right tools, check out http://www.mailchimp.com/

Jake Lumetta

“Uki has done an amazing job organizing and rallying the Chicago Tech Community together with his Google Technology User Group (GTUG) efforts. He has demonstrated his passion and entrepreneurial spirit, and has helped form many new connections in the Chicago tech scene.”  December 7, 2009

~ Jake Lumetta, Co-founder, ShopFiber (business partner)

Renxiang Li

“Uki is an energetic organizer who brings people from different background together to share their knowledge in Google technologies, namely the Web technology and Android, and their experience in starting new business taking advantage of the latest technology. Personally I benefited a lot from attending the monthly event and I am happy that I've presented two Android tutorials at the GTUG.”  December 7, 2009

~ Renxiang Li, Principle Staff Engineer, Motorola Application Research Center

Geoff Domoracki

“Uki hosted the Chicago Google Technology Conference where I had the opportunity to speak with Maroon Global. Uki is a great leader and an expert in both the technologies and business opportunities available to young developers.” December 6, 2009 

~ Geoff Domoracki, Owner, midVentures.com Group (business partner)