Advancing your project through professional software development skills.

Some innovative - yet mature - technologies keep fascinating me:

• Apache Lucene - modern search technologies offer new insights to mass data
• XMPP - near real-time messaging based on the Jabber IM protocol. It's in use today for example in GTalk and Google Wave.

NoSQL - relational databases are great, mature and weather provien. Yet sometimes, the benefits of specialized non-SQL technologies should be considered:

• JCR/Apache Jackrabbit for agile content and document management
• Apache Lucene for information retrieval
• Apache CouchDB as a new kind of data store

I am a member of the Apache Software Foundation and currently the Project Management Committee chair for Apache Labs. As time permits, I'm also working on Apache James as a committer and PMC member.