FOSDEM visitor seems to like my baby # <img src=“ http://img.mobypicture.com/72f4dd04dc8f74e0bf9203189744f9ed_view.jpg" alt=“Posted using Mobypicture.com” /> Another picture that was taken before the first session early in the morning:
FOSDEM 2010 - part 1 # Four years ago I was working in Saarbrücken. From there it is a very short ride over to FOSDEM (little more than 300km). So I decided - hey, why not stay there for a weekend. I found a very nice Brussels bed and breakfast hotel called Rovignon - featuring not only comfortable rooms at reasonable prizes but also cats in the house. Back then, I barely knew anyone at the conference. ...
FOSDEM 2010 - 10 years FOSDEM # The final schedule of FOSDEM 2010 is up: Looks like bad news - 306 interesting talks within just one weekend. Lots of interesting talks in the main track including Greg Kroah-Hartman on “Write and Submit your first Linux kernel Patch”, David Recordon from Facebook on “Scaling Facebook with OpenSource tools”, Bernard Li on “Ganglia: 10 years of monitoring clusters and grids”, Andrew Tanenbaum with his “MINIX 3: a Modular, Self-Healing POSIX-compatible Operating System” talk, Benoît Chesneau on “CouchDB! ...
Hadoop trainings in Europe # Recently I received this mail from Christophe Bisciglia on Cloudera Hadoop trainings. Thought it might be interesting to the Hadoop Berlin community: Hadoop Fans, Over the next year, you’ll see new options for Hadoop training and certification from Cloudera. One of the first things you’ll see will be live sessions outside the US, tentatively planned for the April / May time frame. We’ve seen strong interest in Hadoop on all of our international ...
Shopping at Ikea # Some weeks ago, Thilo had a tiny little gadget not to be missed in an average geek’s appartment: A server - admittedly a little old and a bit slow, but still usable for playing around. He installed Ubuntu server on it. At the evening we got it configured to run Hadoop. Little later we found out that some friends of us probably, maybe have some usable hardware left as well - we’ll see on Monday. ...
Hadoop at Heise c’t # <surreptitious_advertising> Interesting for those readers speaking German: Heise published an introductory article on Hadoop in its latest issue. Have fun reading. <surreptitious_advertising/> Thanks to Simon for proof-reading and providing valuable input. Thanks to Thilo Fromm for the hadoop graphics (unfortunately none of them got published in its original form), the catchy title, proof-reading the text over and over again and for keeping me sane during several past and coming months. ...
March 2010 Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin # This is to announce the next Apache Hadoop Get Together that will take place in newthinking store in Berlin. When: March 10th, 4p.m. Where: Newthinking store Berlin As always there will be slots of 20min each for talks on your Hadoop topic. After each talk there will be a lot time to discuss. You can order drinks directly at the bar in the newthinking store. ...
The 7 deadly sins of (Java) software developers # On Lucid Imaginations Blog Jay Hill published a great article on The seven deadly sins of solr. Basically it is a collection of his experiences “analyzing and evaluating a great many instances of Solr implementations, running in some of the largest Fortune 500 companies”. It is a collection of common mistakes, mis-configurations and pitfalls in Solr installations in production use. ...
Apache Dinner January 2010 # This evening in X-Berg several local committers met for the second “Apache Dinner” - an informal gathering of local Apache committers, friends and associates for food, beer and interesting discussions. Next one is probably to be scheduled some time in February. Feel free to send a message to Torsten Curdt to be included on the next invitation mail. Thanks for organizing a nice evening, Torsten. ...
Mahout in Action # As noted earlier by Grant Ingersoll, the first chapters of Mahout in Action are already online at Manning: Sean, Robin, keep up the great work! I would love to read more of the book in the near future.