Monday April 20th A gorgeous sunny spring morning. I was up early and took a little time to take photographs in St Stephens Green. The big news of today was that Sun bought Oracle for 9.50 a share. As Jan works there this news effects us, we'll have to wait and see what happens with this over the next few months.

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It was unfortunate that at PHP Conference UK the speaker from Adobe, Mihai Corlan, decided to add inappropriate material into his talk, namely a mostly naked woman strutting across his screen. Mihai played with the application making delighted noises, and when he was done, he brought her out again. I personally don't find it offensive but I cringed because I know many people do. It's a bit like looking back at the 50s and seeing all the behavior that was considered normal back then that wouldn't be tolerated today.

I wrote on the OSSBarcamp blog about heading to FOSDEM Feb 6-8th, Last year was fantastic, ( I also blogged about it).

Last night Jan and I went to the Dublin Science gallery for a lecture "The personal side of personal robots" by Dr Cynthia Breazeal. Dr Breazeal is from MIT and is the director of the Personal Robots Group. She studied Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and now specialises in Social Robotics and Human Robot Interaction.

I just listened to the PHP User group Panel discussion from the Unconference session at ZendCon. While I listened I took some notes to try and help our Irish PHP Users Group be awesome like some of the other groups out there.

Facebook has announced that it will open it's international headquarters in Dublin. I wonder what this means for me as a web developer. I'm hoping it means they hire a bunch of PHP developers and the Irish PHP User Group Flourishes. Hopefully with more large companies around that use PHP we'll have a great community to help build our own skills and contacts.

'personal note, I'm on a boat' SO Another idea I had was for writing an audio recorder for the routines application where during a todo item you click the personal note button and record a voice message to do with it such as 'personal note, don't forget to buy milk, the one with the yellow branding and the cow on it, not the blue on, you always buy the blue one, stupid girl' then save it as milk.ogg or something, in a 'buy milk' note or whatever.

I'm filled with inspiration to start programming something awesome now that I've been at a developers conference all week. This added with my huge amounts of time that I'll have available now that I'm 'between jobs/contracts' should mean I can actually do this stuff. I just need to get my ideas out of my head and somewhere so I can start the designs. Routine app: Imagine turning my scraps of paper shoved in a two ring A5 binder into an application.