Dylan Schiemann

On April 29th, I was still in Amsterdam. After another wonderful brunch at the hotel, this time with Peter, I gave my talk at SpringOne. It was the last talk of the conference and Peter bought me a nice pint of pear cider which I finished while delivering a lengthy (75 minute) presentation on Dojo, with an emphasis on Data, REST, and integration with Spring. This was a new slide deck and the talk went reasonably well.

After the conference, I checked out of the hotel early. Tomorrow is Queen’s Day, the biggest holiday of the year in the Netherlands, and public transit is shut down in the area near my hotel. So we headed to Nikolai’s flat to drop off my bags, and then we headed to dinner before walking around the streets of Amsterdam. Throughout the city we would walk into random street parties with bands or DJs. Each block was a completely different scene… the crowds were a bit overwhelming in places. People were decked out in orange everywhere we went… Vicki was nice enough to provide us with orange shoelaces… apparently my ginger hair wasn’t quite festive enough for the occasion. Overall though it was a lot of fun and a great spectacle to see, and my photos don’t do it justice at all.