Highlights 2005

2005 has been a good year, both personally and professionally.

Here is a summary of some of the highlights (in chronological order):

• Family trip to Vietnam for 6 weeks. Amazing and beutiful country, friendly people, interesting culture, delicious food etc.
• The merge of AspectWerkz and AspectJ is announced .
• Sara and I skiing powder in Abisko (close to the pole circle) for 3 days - without kids!
• Family trip to California for 2 weeks.
• Release of the support for AOP in the JRockit JVM.
• Left BEA and joined Terracotta.
• Jacob turned 2. Amazing little guy, that has gone from hardly speaking at all to someone talking so much that you hardly get anything said (or done), in just 4 months…
• Our family got a US VISA (we are moving over in mid Jan 2006).
• The release of AspectJ 5.

Here is a collage over the family highlights 2005, in chronological order.

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