WiFi at the Apache Hadoop Get Together # Just a brief reminder: The next Apache Hadoop Get Together is scheduled to take place on Thursday, January 27th at 6p.m. at the Zanox Event Campus at Media Spree Berlin. We have three very interesting talks, though thirty guests registered already, we still have a few free seats. Head over to the xing event page to register if you have not done so yet. ...
Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin - January 2011 # This is to announce the next Apache Hadoop Get Together sponsored by Cloudera and Zanox that will take place in the Zanox Event Campus in Berlin. When: January 27th 2011, 6p.m. Where: zanox Event Campus (Please mark the changed event location.) <br />Größere Kartenansicht As always there will be slots of 30min each for talks on your Hadoop topic. After each talk there will be a lot time to discuss. ...
White Christmas # Christmas brought “a little surprise” to Germany last night: The result this morning: a few cm (as in about 20) of snow - that is a white christmas everyone had been looking forward to. Just one question: Where to put all that snow when digging out my car? ;) Thanks to snow clearing services streets are all white but well drivable. Other than that lots of time for enjoying the white weather. ...
Apache Hadoop - Trainings by Cloudera in Berlin # Cloudera is offering trainings both for Administrators as well as for Developers early next year in Berlin. If your are getting started in using Apache Hadoop this might be a great option to get your developers and operations up to speed with the framework. If you are a regular of the local Apache Hadoop Get Together a discount code should have been sent to you by mail. ...
Devoxx – Day one – Java, Performance and Devops # In his keynote Mark Reinhold provided some information on the very interesting features to be included in the Java 7 release. Generics will be easier to declare with the diamond operator. Nested try-finally constructs that are nowadays needed to safely close resources will no longer be necessary – their will be the option of implementing a Closeable interface supporting a method close() that get’s called whenever objects of that class’s type go out of scope. ...
Apache Mahout Hackathon Berlin # Early next year - on February 19th/20th to be more precise - the first Apache Mahout Hackathon is scheduled to take place at c-base. The Hackathon will take one weekend. There will be plenty of time to hack on your favourite Mahout issue, to get in touch with two of the Mahout committers and get your machine learning project off the ground. Please contact isabel@apache. ...
Apache Mahout Podcast # During Apache Con ATL Michael Coté interviewed Grant Ingersoll on Apache Mahout. The interview is available online as podcast. The interview covers the goals and current use cases of the project, goes into some detail on the reasons for initially starting it. If you are wondering what Mahout is all about, what you can do with it and which direction development is heading, the interview is a great option to find out more. ...
Teddy in Antwerp # When at Devoxx Teddy went to the city taking a few pictures of the Grote Markt, the Haven as well as the main train station.
Apache Lunch Devoxx # On Twitter I suggested to host an Apache dinner during Devoxx. Matthias Wesendorf of Apache MyFaces was so kind to take up the discussion carrying it over to the Apache community mailing-list. It quickly turned out that there was quite some interest with several members and committers attending Devoxx. We scheduled the meetup for Friday after the conference during lunch time. I pinged a few Apache related people I knew would attend the conference (being a speaker and a committer at some Apache project almost certainly resulted in getting a ping). ...
Devoxx – Day three # The panel discussion on the future of Java was driven by visitor submitted and voted questions on the current state and future of Java. The general take-aways for me included the clear statement that the TCK will never be made available to the ASF. The promise of Oracle to continue supporting the Java community and remaining active in the JCP. There was some discussion on whether coming Java versions should be backwards-incompatible. ...