The last week has been busy busy busy … again. Monday and Tuesday were really busy at work. Last week we finished a big project (Travis) and it seems that wrapping up such projects always costs more time than you think in advance. Either way, I was happy that the project was over. It wasn’t really my cup of tea. Now I can work on a much more interesting project where we can actually do some requirements specification for a change.
Speaking of which, I selected some more books (from my readinglist) to buy from Addison-Wesley. I’ve ordered with them before and now I get a discount of 50% when I order 3 books or more. That means that it is cheaper to buy 3 books than 2 
Interesting! Also I found a really good blog about software and software development: Tyner Blain. I sent the author (Scott Sehlhorst) an E-mail with some ideas I had and got a really nice response. He even read some of the papers on my personal page. Cool
Anyway, Wednesday I was home most of the day, had to rush-shop in the morning (groceries, more building materials, hairdressers with Koen) as the construction company came over in the early afternoon to fix our roof. Looks like they’ve done a good job by the way, so far we haven’t had any water on the attic anymore. Thursday was… well… Thursday and today I went to Nijmegen again to fit my outfit for the defense of my dissertation. Way cool! I also discussed a review on one of our papers that wasn’t published yet. The review is really good this time; high quality review as well as a positive outcome (we have to fix some minor stuff but the two reviewers were extremely positive about the contribution). So: nothing but good news!
I’ve also started studying again. For our competence center I have to read some stuff on software architecture. We’re using the books from the “Open University” as well as some books on DYA (Dynamic Architecture). I’ve read a couple of chapters. The DYA book is nice but nothing new so far. Still a good read though