Excited about cite
Nov 13, 2010
There are times in career when you get excited about having an experience for the first time. I well remember how I got excited about seeing my first self-coded shell node popping up in the Windows Explorer (a.k.a custom shell namespace). A bit of excitement I noticed seeing my first reader’s comment printed in iX. And I was really excited about receiving my first printed articles in JavaMagazin and iX. Or when heise.de published my first online article on their well-known site. I really got excited when I was asked by the JAX management to speak there, which was an honour back then in the first days of that conference. I got excited when I got told that I was nominated as the CEO for an affiliate. And certainly I was excited when I was awarded the "GAP" (GlassFish Community Award). So today once again was one of these days when I got excited about a new experience. This time, it was about someone citing and discussing a blog article of mine (Even when it was just in a blog rollup. Hey, they picked up MY blog entry for that!). And it was not just someone. It was JavaWorld. So I not only was excited, but also proud. A bit, at least. While obviously all of these is nothing compared to being nominated for an Oscar(R) or a Nobel Prize, it actually is really fun to see myself getting excited still. Ain’t this part of that abstract idea of "worth living for"? I do think so. Excitement drives live (at least mine) and development of people, companies, products and markets. So I do hope that I will get excited again soon. Let’s see what comes next. Regards, Markus. An overview of all my different publications and products can be found on my personal web site Head Crashing Informatics (http://www.headcrashing.eu)
