March 21, 2011
Apache Mahout Hackathon Berlin # Last year Sebastian Schelter from Berlin was added to the list of committers for Apache Mahout. With two committers in town the idea was born to meet some day, work on Mahout. So why not just announce that meeting publicly and invite others who might be interested in learning more about the framework? I got in touch with c-base - a hacker space in Berlin well suited to host a Hackathon - and quickly got their ok for the event.
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February 28, 2011
Apache Dinner Berlin # Title: Apache Dinner Berlin
Location: Good Morning Vietnam X-Berg<br />Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2011-02-28
Please contact Simon Willnauer if you would like to attend for further information.
February 25, 2011
Note to self: svn:ignore usage # Putting the information here to make retrieving it a bit easier next time.
When working with svn and some random IDE I’d really love to avoid checking in any files that are IDE specific (project configuration, classpath, etc.). The command to do that:
svn propedit svn:ignore $directory_to_edit
After issuing this command you’ll be prompted to enter file patterns for files to ignore or the directory names.
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February 24, 2011
Berlin Scrumtisch - February 2011 # The February Scrumtisch Berlin featured a talk by Lyssa Adkins, famously known for her publications on Coaching Agile teams. A mixture of fifty developers, scrum masters, coaches and product owner as well as one project manager followed Marion Eikmann’s invitation. Thanks for organising the event, as well as thank you to Hypoport for providing the venue.
In her one-hour presentation she mainly focussed on two core topics: On the roles agile coaches have to fullfill as well as on the skill set needed by agile coaches.
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February 23, 2011
Video is up: Paolo Negri on scaling by one order of magnitude #
February 22, 2011
Video is up - Simon Willnauer on Lucene 4 Performance improvements #
February 21, 2011
Video is up - Josh Devins on Apache Hadoop at Nokia #
February 21, 2011
Call for Presentations Berlin Buzzwords - one more week to go # As a little reminder: the Call for presentations of Berlin Buzzwords will close next week on Tuesday, March 1st. Submissions on scalable search, data storage and analysis are all welcome. We are looking for presentations on the core technologies such as Apache Hadoop, CouchDB, Lucene, Redis, Voldemort but also talks on interesting use cases and system architectures.
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February 20, 2011
Teddy in Amsterdam # On his trip from SFO back to Europe teddy spent a few days in Amsterdam. He brought back the following pictures of bikes, cheese and the canals: Going to Amsterdam usually is pretty darn dangerous: I tend to return with some toys added to my collection of puzzles. Somehow I tend to be drawn to the shop called Gamekeeper selling them even when I do not remember the exact address or even just the street name:
February 19, 2011
Apache Mahout Meetup Amsterdam # Last week I was honoured to be invited as one of the two speakers on Apache Mahout at the Mahout meetup in Amsterdam at JTeams offices. After free beer, cola and pizza Frank Scholten gave an overview of Mahout's clustering capabilities. After a brief introduction to Mahout itself he went into a little more detail on how clustering works in general. After that with a selection of Seinfeld scripts he used a fun data set to guide the audience through the process of choosing the right data preparation steps, coming up with good training parameters and finally evaluating clustering quality.
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