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Yesterday (yes, during my three week holiday) I visited the presentation of a colleague about SOA/ESB with Mule. Since the crowd was mixed, and not everybody was custom to ESB concepts it took a while to get to the more interesting parts… but overall it was a worthwhile presentation; I really think Erik managed to clarify some misunderstandings about ESB/Mule.

By the way, why does every framework tend to introduce new abbreviations? UMO? Unified Mule Object?

During my three week holiday I’ll be constructing a room and vestibule on our second floor. A new staircase, boiler and eventually a dormer will be fitted by contractors.

Occasionally I’ll be posting pictures of the progress on my Flickr account.

Oh, and being the nerd I am… I couldn’t get any of the free CAD programs to do what I wanted. So I wrote a simple application which I can use to script my building plan, in the most agile way possible

This is the interface of the application:

On the left you can see the actual building plan (in scale) on the right you can see TextMate with the current script (groovy) loaded into it. The visual plan is updated automatically when the script file is changed. The application is still very rough, and the DSL I came up with is far to basic at the moment (lines and rectangles). But it works for me! Ow, and it has build-in printing support… without watermarks!

I’ll probably add polyline/polygon support this week, to draw in the electricity pipes…

Somehow the following message I got from OSX after running the updater didn’t manage to ease my mind:

I didn’t experience any problems… sure… but I felt the adrenaline rise!