Duchenne Heroes 2010
This time no technical kind of thing, the last months I’ve been working on an update of a website which I voluntary manage for my athletics club (www.av56.nl). I rewrote my simple own MVC framework to the well know CodeIgniter framework. And except that, I’ve been biking quite a lot too. Especially since I bought a road bike (Giant TCR Advanced 2) next to my mountainbike (Cube Reaction).
That biking crazyness has now been changed into a new adventure called Duchenne Heroes. In short some facts:
- 7 days of mountainbiking
- 100 km each day
- 10.000 altimeters
- 4 countries
- 4 people per team
And that all with just one main goal, collecting money for the Duchenne foundation. A good description can be read on wikipedia about what Duchenne is. The idea came up after a few beers (always the guilty one 
) with some friends and since last saturday, our team of four people is a fact! We started creating a website this week but there’s a lot of work left: clubjegoes.nl
So, keep an eye on our website if you’re interested or even better, donate money to our team. We need 10.000 euro in total. We’re now busy thinking about how to create special sponsor packages. And not unimportant, start training since this is one of the toughest tours in the Benelux.
My next will soon be published, it’s about the Dutch NLJUG day called JFall which I attended last wednesday. It’s a conference of the Dutch Java user group. I’ll briefly describe the subjects I followed and try to dig into them later. Especially the new Java 7 improvements have my attention, awesome new stuff designed for multi core processors and cloud computing!
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