Inductive Bias

On Thursday: Open Hadoop User Group Munich

December 16, 2009
Camp, Hadoop, Munich, Software Foundation

On Thursday: Open Hadoop User Group Munich # If one evening of Apache Hadoop is not enough for you: The next Christmas Meetup in Germany takes place one day later in Munich. <li When: Thursday December 17, 2009 at 5:30pm open end Where: eCircle AG, Nymphenburger Straße 86, 80636 München (“Bruckmann” Building, “U1 Mailinger Str”, map in German http://www.ecircle.com/de/kontakt/anfahrt.html and look for the signs) Talks scheduled by Bob and Lars: ...

On Wednesday: December Apache Hadoop @ Berlin

December 14, 2009
Cookies, Berlin, Hadoop, Get Together

On Wednesday: December Apache Hadoop @ Berlin # This week on Wednesday at 5p.m. the December Hadoop Get Together takes place in newthinking store Berlin. Talks scheduled so far: Richard Hutton (nugg.ad): “Moving from five days to one hour.” Jörg Möllenkamp (Sun): “Hadoop on Sun” Nikolaus Pohle (nurago): “M/R for MR - Online Market Research powered by Apache Hadoop. Enable consultants to analyze online behavior for audience segmentation, advertising effects and usage patterns. ...

Photos the traditional way

December 13, 2009
photos, Freetime, praktica

Photos the traditional way # After one year of taking pictures at various occasions and at various places the pile of photos grew frighteningly large: I am not counting the images taken at Apache Con US Oakland - they are not yet developed. All other photos were taken either with an old fashioned Olympus µ-zoom or a Praktica Nova 1st. Several hours of work later, I ended up with one more book containing memories of an exciting year…

Apache Hadoop at FOSDEM 2010

December 11, 2009
Fosdem, General, Free Software, Hadoop, Software Foundation

Apache Hadoop at FOSDEM 2010 #

Though the official schedule is not yet online: I will be giving an introductory talk about Apache Hadoop at next year’s FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developer European Meeting) in Brussles. This will be the 10th birthday of the event - looking forward to a fun event, meeting other free and open source software developers from all over Europe.





If you are a Apache Hadoop developer and would like me to include some particular topic in the talk - please feel free to contact me. If you are an Apache Hadoop user and would like to learn more on the project, please come to the talk and ask questions. If you are an Apache Hadoop Newbie - feel free to join us.

In addition there will be a NoSQL Dev Room at FOSDEM as well. The call for presentations is up already. So if you are doing fun stuff with CouchDB, HBase and friends or are a developer of these projects - submit a talk and join us in early-February in Brussles.

Reminder: Apache Hadoop Get Together next week

December 7, 2009
Berlin, Hadoop, Get Together

Reminder: Apache Hadoop Get Together next week # Just a tiny little reminder: The Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin is scheduled to take place next week on Wednesday. When: 16th of December 8PM Where: newthinking store Tucholskystr. 48, Berlin Mitte Kindly sponsored by: newthinking store (location) and StudiVZ (videos). Please regist er (or use Xing for registration) so planning becomes a bit easier. Talks scheduled: Richard Hutton (nugg.ad): “Moving from five days to one hour. ...

Berlin hospital chaos (Charite)

December 2, 2009
hospital, Freetime, wtf

Berlin hospital chaos (Charite) # What getting screws out of your knee looks like at Charite: Got sent to “Virchow Klinikum” by my doctor back home: I got some recommendations for it from my colleagues and is easy to reach for me. Called up there earlier this week and got an appointment for today at 8:30 a.m. (was already wondering, that this was possible so quickly). Arrived this morning: But seems like I was out of luck - no one at the hospital knew about the appointment. ...

Sesat - moving from FAST to Solr

December 1, 2009
Solr, Free Software, Sesat, fast

Sesat - moving from FAST to Solr # The article was first published on Sesat Weblog. As the whole site went down several days ago, I retrieved the content from the Google cache and posted it here for perservation. Update: Original site is up again.

ScrumTisch Berlin - November

November 26, 2009
ScrumDay, Transition, Scrum

ScrumTisch Berlin - November # This evening Marion organised another successful Scrumtisch: Usually we either meet for timeboxed discussions on Scrum and agile development questions or a speaker is invited to present his favourite Scrum or Lean or Agile topic. Today Markus Frick gave a presentation of how Scrum was introduced at SAP, a German software company. They started implementing Scrum in a “small” team of about 60 people, organised in about six to seven teams. ...

First Apache Dinner Berlin

November 25, 2009
Software Foundation, Apache Dinner

First Apache Dinner Berlin # A few days ago, I received a mail from Torsten Curdt that read something like: “[…] For a long time now I wanted to organise an Apache Dinner Berlin. What do you think, when would be a good time for that?”. As that was about the third time I heard of that idea (and the third person mentioning the idea), I included some Berlin-based Apache-people asking whether they would be interested in having an Apache Dinner on November 24st in X-Berg. ...