The life of a CA Copenhagen Campus Connection

Wednesday Mar 26, 2008

Tuesday the 25th (the day after Easter), I went to Alsion in Sønderborg to give a SunSPOT talk for the SoftwareForum Alsund group. Even though it had snowed through the night it was a clear blue sky and I sat by the window in the small plane and had the most fantastic view.

When I arrived at Sønderborg airport there were no taxis, so I had to call one. Coming from Copenhagen, I have never been to an airport with no taxis outside before, but hey - there's allways a first time for everything ;-)

The taxi drove through the town of Sønderborg, to get me to Alsion, which is a science park in the southern Denmark, not far from Danfoss Universe. Some of the faculties of University of Southern Denmark (SDU) are also located in Alsion. The view of the science park from across the water was breathtaking, its really beautiful architecture.

 

Photo courtesy 3XN

So I got to the main entrance, where a friend waited for me. I had been told to go "to the red box above the cafeteria" - I had no idea what that meant, but it made sense the minute I stepped through the door. At the 2nd floor suspended above the cafeteria was the meeting room like a giant floating red box.

Photo courtesy 3XN

15 people had showed up for the SunSPOT tech talk, but it was a tough crowd - most of them were embedded systems developers working with ARM chips on a daily basis, and they asked loads of questions - which I tried to answer the best I could. The atmosphere was relaxed and in good spirits.

After the talk I went to a friends house for dinner, before spending 4.5 hours on a train going back to Copenhagen. I had to change trains in Fredericia, and of course my second train was a little delayed - so I stood there and watched a container cargo wagon with the word "KLine" (which is funny if you use IRC) and the cargo wagon next to it had a container with the words "tex" on it (which is funny if you use TeX as typesetting). Nerd humour!

Nice trip never the less :-)

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