On JBoss course

13 Oct

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I'm abusing my non-Jam days this month attending the JBoss course Sadalbari has just started running, after the news last week that Sadalbari has become the first South African JBoss Service Provider. Sadalbari was started by a former colleague of mine, and Open Source is their primary market.

Sun-stamped Java binary packages for FreeBSD

26 Aug

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The FreeBSD Foundation has announced the availability of FreeBSD-native binary packages of JDK 1.3.1. Yay!

Hi, I'm Neil Blakey-Milner, a technology generalist most interested by open source, security, and building scalable systems (especially if I get to use the Python programming language).

I "work" at the incredibly fun web-sites-for-everyone startup SynthaSite based in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa.

What I do

  • StarCamp

    I was the main instigator behind this 2-day unconference in December 2007 in Cape Town. There'll be another one in Cape Town around July.

  • GeekDinner

    I help out in making these geek social events happen every two months in Cape Town since March 2007.

  • SynthaSite

    I make sure that the systems run smoothly at this Cape Town-born Web 2.0 startup.

  • Presentations

    I speak publically on a number of topics - generally related to technical aspects of open source software or on software development.

  • Code

    I've written a few software projects of my own over the years (although mostly I'm the only user of them).

  • Photos

    I'm far from an artist, but I enjoy capturing my experiences on camera.

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