I went to Google London offices for an AdSense event with my colleague Kathryn. Some more about this great experience at Travelfusion’s blog!

Built with GWT 2.0 a clean and slick interface and easy to use. Got to love it!

<context:annotation-config />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.travelfusion.tfweb.guide.controller" />

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping">
   <property name="interceptors">
      <ref bean="myInterceptor" />
   </property>
</bean>

<bean id="myInterceptor" class="com.company.MyInterceptor">
  <property name="openingTime"><value>9</value></property>
  <property name="closingTime"><value>18</value></property>
</bean>

And your interceptor class something like:

public class MyInterceptor implements HandlerInterceptor {
   private int openingTime;
   private int closingTime;

   @Override
   public void afterCompletion(HttpServletRequest arg0, HttpServletResponse arg1, Object arg2, Exception arg3) throws    Exception {
      // TODO Auto-generated method stub
   }

   @Override
   public void postHandle(HttpServletRequest arg0, HttpServletResponse arg1, Object arg2, ModelAndView arg3) throws    Exception {
      // TODO Auto-generated method stub
   }

   @Override
   public boolean preHandle(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, Object arg2) throws Exception {
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        int hour = cal.get(HOUR_OF_DAY);
        if (openingTime <= hour < closingTime) {
           return true;
        } else {
           response.sendRedirect("http://host.com/outsideOfficeHours.html");
           return false;
        }
   }
}

I am loving London, so much to do, never bored – well almost never – and visiting friends and family once a month just makes up for the occasionally lonely days.

Here are some pictures of a team building event. I can’t say for sure that shooting each other is team building but it was a lot of fun.

I had to post this one. Guys, sorry if you don’t like to be online, but you’re all very good looking, so it shouldn’t be a problem.

@Farewell dinner November 2008, Amsterdam

I am working as an IT Consultant now and it’s very different but also interesting. On my free time I work on my next big thing. My project should go live somewhere this year (I hope), and if it does I will post about it.

For now I won’t be writing much about programming or Java because I don’t really have time and my work is more directed at business analysis these days. I miss working with the latest technologies, but what I am doing now is also interesting and I still get to taste a bit of coding at home.