April 18, 2012
Music in Berlin early June # A little bit of inspiration on what to do the weekend before and after Buzzwords in Berlin:
Ballet in June at the Staatsballett Berlin
Concerts in June at <a href=“ http://www.konzerthaus.de/programm/?datetimeAnf=1338501600&datetimeEnd=1341093600&id_language=1&month=6&year=2012"
Konzerthaus Berlin
Opera in June at Staatsoper Berlin
Opera in June at Deutsche Oper Berlin
Concerts in June at the Philharmoniker Berlin
Opera in June at Komische Oper Berlin
Theater (German-only, sorry, but open-air) at Hexenkessel Hoftheater
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April 17, 2012
Berlin Buzzwords scheduling - behind the scenes # Since roughly a week the Berlin Buzzwords schedule is available online. Tickets are still available at the regular rate - make sure to book your ticket now - you’ve got another three weeks to purchase tickets at the regular rate, last minute rate will up the prize by another 100 Euros starting May 20th.
I thought it might be interesting to share some background on how Berlin Buzzwords scheduling worked out this year.
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March 7, 2012
Clojure Berlin - March 2012 # In today’s Clojure meetup Stefan Hübner gave an introduction to Cascalog - a Clojure library based on Cascading for large scale data processing on Apache Hadoop without hassle.
After a brief overview of what he is using the tool for to do log processing at his day job for http://maps.nokia.com Stefan went into some more detail on why he chose Cascalog over other project that provide abstraction layers on top of Hadoop’s plain map/reduce library: Both Pig and Hive provide easy to learn SQL-like languages to quickly write analysis jobs.
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March 7, 2012
Visiting Berlin Buzzwords - where to go for drinks and food # There are literally hundreds of bars and restaurants in easy walking distance to the conference venue. And if that is now enough for you, hop on U-Bahn and head east to either Kreuzberg or Friedrichshain to find more. For inspiration check out Tip Berlin - they have a decent, reliable restaurant list.
For quick orientation: Berlin is no one city center but many districts that all have their own look and feel to them.
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March 6, 2012
Walking through Berlin # Ever made the mistake of booking a flight to a city and trying to decide on what to do only after you arrived? That type of planning does work for Berlin - though you may end up with quite a different schedule than originally intended.
The only thing that needs a bit of planning ahead (about a month) is visiting the Bundestag - fast way to discover it is to just go up to it’s dome.
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March 2, 2012
Berlin Hadoop Get Together - videos are up # Markus Andrezak on Queue management with Kanban:
Queue Management in Product Development with Kanban - enabling flow and fast feedback along the value chain from David Obermann on Vimeo.
Martin Scholl on Storm:
On Firehoses and Storms: Event Thinking, Event Processing from David Obermann on Vimeo.
Fabian Hüske on Stratosphere:
Large-Scale Data Analysis Beyond Map/Reduce from David Obermann on Vimeo.
February 23, 2012
Apache Hadoop Get Together - February 2012 # Today the first Hadoop Get Together Berlin 2012 took place - David got the event hosted by and at Axel Springer who kindly also paid for the (soon to be published) videos. Thanks also to the unbelievable Machine company for the tasty buffet after the meetup. Another thanks to Open Source Press for donating three of their Hadoop books.
Today’s selection was quite diverse: The event started with a presentation by Markus Andrezak who gave an overview of Kanban and how it helped him change the development workflow over at eBay/mobile.
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February 14, 2012
HowTo: Meetups in Berlin # I get that question once in a while - and need the list below myself every now and then: How to actually setup a meetup in Germany. Essentially it all boils down to three questions: Which channels to use for PR? Where to do the meeting? What other benefits to offer to attendees?
When it comes to PR there are several options: Announce the meetup on relevant mailing lists
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February 14, 2012
Happy Valentine # Free Software developers can be very critical: Every single line of code gets scrutinized, every design is reviewed by several often opinionated people. Even the way communities are supposed to work sometimes gets restricted. Sometimes a simple Thank You can make all the difference for any contributor or committer.
FSFE proposed a really nice campaign: Celebrate the “I love Free Software” - Day on February 14th. In the hope that some of the readers of this blog actively develop or contribute to free software projects - this is a thank you for you!
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February 13, 2012
February 14th: “I love free software day” # This year FSFE is once again running their I love free software campaign on February 14th: The goal they put up is to have more love reports, hugs and Thank You messages sent out than bug reports filed against projects.
They have put online a few ideas on what to do that day. I’d like to add one additional option: If you are using any free software and you feel the urgent need to file a bug report on that day, use the opportunity to submit a patch as well: Make sure to not only describe what is going wrong but add a patch that contains a test to show the issue and a code modification that fixes the issue, is compatible with the project’s coding guidelines, doesn’t break anything else in the project.
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