Packt sent me an e-copy of “Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials” by Sten E. Vesterli asking me to review it. The book is a pretty good and probably rather unique book which covers the Open Source version of the **Oracle**   **ADF library**. This does not mean the book is only for “open source” ADF since everything you can do in this book you can also do with regular ADF instead it means it covers using Adf with non-standard technology such as GlassFish, Mysql and so on and so forth.

It was my birthday earlier this week (Monday the 27:th to be exact) and since my daughter Sofia had her first birthday the 21:th we had a joint celebration over the weekend. Mainly the gifts were targeted at my daughter since I am a bit to old really to get birthday gifts.

But I did get some things and among them one thing really stood out it was a poem written by what is loosely I guess a cousin to our children.

Spent three days this week at JFokus so I thought I’d share my views a bit. To be honest the conference was a bit on the lighter side and I think in hindsight I did a really botched job selecting sessions. I managed to pick both some very amazing sessions as well as a lot of introductions, sales pitches or things I already knew.