HIPPO \\ Jeroen Reijn

I could not have been more lucky. During the Cocoon GT I found out I had to take another business trip to New York a couple of days later. It was going to be my first visit to the US and I was really looking forward to it.

We went to New York on official Hippo business. Taking a cab from the airport to downtown Manhattan gives you an amazing view of the New York skyline. After arriving at the clients office, we had two days filled with meetings. The talks I had were very interesting and I've met some great and very high skilled people.
The three days went by very quickly.Luckily on Friday I had a couple hours off to walk around town. I must say it's really an amazing city that never sleeps. I'm thinking of taking a vacation to see more of what New York has to offer. I still need to see so many things. A small impression of my walk can be found on Flickr.

I really hope to visit NY again in the near future.

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The first day of the Cocoon GetTogether 2007 Hackathon has just ended and I have to say the it's great to be in Rome. We've been really lucky with the beautiful weather here. It's about 26 degrees Celsius,lots of sunshine and a perfect blue sky and it appears to stay that way for the next couple of days. The past 1,5 day have been great. Italy is such a wonderful country.

Our journey started on tuesday when Arthur, Jasha and I left the Hippo office around 4pm and took a cab to Schiphol airport, where we met Arje. The check-in went pretty smooth and after a while we boarded the plane. During the flight to Rome we had a great view of the Italian Alps, because of the great weather, which ended in some beautiful images.

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Hippo is an international company,so working overseas is one of the fun parts of our jobs. This tuesday for instance I went to the UK together with Wouter for a meeting at a customer. I always love traveling (except if there are any delays of course).

The past couple of months I've been working on several different projects in different cities in and outside of Netherlands. That's when I came up with the idea to show you guys where my work brings me, so I packed my tiny digital camera to bring along on this trip I took for my company. To do it in Hippo style I brought a tiny Hippo along as well, which we ordered a while ago for the ApacheCon EU 2007. Unfortunately the Hippos came in too late and we were stuck with a couple of hundred Hippos, but I'm happy too see that all our customers love the tiny little creatures.

This tuesday it was a bit rainy here in the Netherlands so I was a bit disappointed that I could not take so many outside photos, but here is one from the plane while flying above the UK.

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Well the Cocoon GetTogether 2007 is coming up. It's only a bit more then two weeks from now. Have you registered? I know I just did! Be sure to register on time, because the space is limited. I think Rome will be a great place for a GT. I've never been to Rome myself, so I think it's going to be a great experience and I'm definitely going to bring my camera.

I can't wait to meet up with all my fellow Cocooners, have some laughs, drink some beers, eat some great food and see what's hot in the world of Cocoon. For the hackathon there are some plans to do some Cocoon 2.2 integration with Apache Wicket. I've noticed there are a lot of people spending time on Wicket, so it's a framework to take into account.

Of course there will be a Hippo team present. You can probably spot us by the blue t-shirt with the big red Hippo's on the back. Have you used the CMS before or you're perhaps thinking about it, just walk bye and come and have a chat!

See you in Rome!

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So here I am at Schiphol airport waiting for my flight to London. This afternoon I had a feeling, that it was going to be a long day. And it seems I was right. Entering the big hall it was the first thing I noticed: the big red letters around my departure time. It seems I have a 40 minutes delay, but as you know it's just an indication. It's only 40 minutes you might say, but waiting for 40 minutes can be quite a long time.

I can still remember the day (about 2 years) ago that Arje and I went to London and they started out with an hour delay and it ended in not going at all, because of the weather. Let's hope that the delay today is not because of the weather, otherwise it can become an ever longer night then expected.

I always read other peoples weblog, where they complain about flying specific airlines. Untill now I did not really understand what all the fuzz was about. I guess the amount of frustration can be measured by how many flights you have a year and the reason why you're at the airport. I can't remember being frustrated about a delay while going on vacation, but today it seems to bother me a lot more.

Well I'm off for a nice cold heineken. Maybe that will bring me in a better mood ;-)

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