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A Java connection to Macedonia

Posted by felipegaucho on September 24, 2006 at 11:47 PM | Comments (10)

Despite all marketing about Java communities, the world is big and sometimes the spotlights loose some interesting groups. Last week I had the privilege to visit Macedonia, a small country on the Balkan peninsula. My destiny was Ohrid, a city on the shore of the beautiful Lake of Ohrid. If you know that game Age of Empires you will feel yourself a character of the game walking through the narrowed alleys of Ohrid. The city is sorrounded by the Tsar Samuel's Fortress - and from the top of this fortress you get a fantastic view of the lake and the city down there. A good place to shot enemies two thousand years ago, and a nice place to test your photo gadgets nowadays :) Other interesting novelty about Macedonia is about its Java community - I confess I had no much information about that before visiting Ohrid, so I decided to share with you some hints about what is happening over there.

This trip opportunity happened when I started working for Netcetera AG - a business group established at Zurich with a brother office at Skopje, the capital of Macedonia. Despite using a portable technology and all communication facilities of the Internet, these two offices are located in very different countries, and the company promote this annual meetings to integrate people - two days of a friendly cultural mix.

Macedonian Java

After some business presentations, I had the opportunity to talk with my new colleagues of Skopje, and then the Macedonian working environment started getting unveiled for me. At first sight, macedonian technicians are easy to identify: they are young, high skilled developers with a lot of energy and dreams about pushing Macedonia to a higher level into Europe. Recent political and social transformations provided freedom to macedonian people and the software technicians reflect their beliefs about a better future. Technology at Macedonia is growing up and the market is establishing its values and goals. Macedonian workforce is not strong labeled, and it is common to find people skilled in several different technologies.

About Java, the keyword is outsourcing. Macedonians are first class Java developers, with profile based on creativity. Salaries are a pending issue that appears sometimes in their discourse, but the most strong feeling is about the desire to set Macedonia as a good option of business in the East Europe, a Java provider based on the excellence of their technicians.

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For some reason there is no JUG at Macedonia, and even asking dozen of macedonians about that, none of them could give me an acceptable reason to that. Here a special requirement to macedonians: just create your JUG, no excuses :)

That's all I know about Macedonia, it is not much but I returned from Ohrid with a very nice feeling about that Java community, I believe we will start listening more and more about their Java. If you are looking for business partners, or just thinking about a nice place to your next vacation, think about Macedonia.


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  • Wow, it looks REALLY beautiful. What about that "Church of St. John at Kaneo"? Amazing. ;-)
    They are outsourcing for which countries?
    See ya, best regards!

    Posted by: fabianofranz on October 10, 2006 at 10:35 AM

  • Hm... you mean F.Y.R.O.M not Macedonia.

    It is not officially named Macedonia, it is called
    F.Y.R.O.M. (former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)

    There is a dispute between F.Y.R.O.M. and Greece for this name.

    See U.N. general assembly

    http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/47/a47r225.htm

    P.S. And ok, I'm Greek. :)

    Posted by: dtrehas on October 24, 2006 at 04:23 AM

  • Sorry Felipe but ,,,,the official name is FYROM as already mentioned!
    Such a statement causes a RunTimeException to any Greek.

    No worries...probably you didnt know!

    Posted by: javaneze on November 02, 2006 at 05:26 AM

  • ok guys,
    ok, My sincere excuses about any incorrect reference to Greece and its territories - I really didn't knew about that... My only objective was to promote the beautiful region of Macedonia.

    Posted by: felipegaucho on November 02, 2006 at 05:40 AM

  • Actually, the official name is Republic of Macedonia. Felipe didn't visit the UN or Greece (where the official name is F.Y.R.O.M.) Here's a transcript of the constitution for dtrehas - http://www.b-info.com/places/Macedonia/republic/Constitution.shtml. No need for excuses Felipe, this is not a Greek territory and the guys just didn't know....I think they got a RunTimeError.

    Posted by: jovajava on November 21, 2006 at 02:12 PM

  • Gaucho, why don't you declare a method:
    public abstract String getFormerYugoslavRepublicOfMacedoniaName();
    Use it for all your references and tell everyone who's reading your post to implement it as they want!

    Anicio - Geek solutions for a better world! (I said GEEK!) :)

    Posted by: anicio on November 22, 2006 at 03:33 AM

  • Glad to hear that you like Ohrid and the REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

    Posted by: aleks_ohrid on December 16, 2006 at 01:41 AM

  • Hey

    I'm looking for some information on the current situation for java jobs in Macedonia. My wife is Macedonian and we're thinking of moving there within the next year or so. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

    Thanks

    Posted by: jeffmbrake on January 21, 2007 at 11:29 AM

  • Macedonian JUG initiative is started: T'ga za JUG is created recently on java.net, but it is still in jugs-inbox (not yet approved).
    https://tga-za-jug.dev.java.net/
    We are working hard to become an incubator project...

    I'm very glad you liked Ohrid, you should see some other places next time you visit us, Macedonia is full of such places.

    About the Greek's arguments, they still continue to cause IllegalArgumentException: guys, please, this is not the place for such conflicts...

    Posted by: pesov on December 04, 2007 at 04:13 PM

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    I thank you for continuing excellence
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