NoSQL Berlin Meetup # Yesterday evening the NoSQL Berlin Meetup took place in newthinking store, Berlin Mitte. We had planned for some 50 to 70 people. It quickly became clear that the room would be full - at startup I counted about 80 guests interested in NoSQL topics both locally from Berlin but also traveling here from New York. Some pictures are available on flickr - thanks to @langalex for sending the url to me: ...
Videos are up # As of yesterday the videos of the last Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin are available online. Th anks to the speakers for providing insight in their projects and thanks to Cloudera for sponsoring the videos. The next meetup will be announced soon - three talks have already been proposed. In addition, StudiVZ offered to sponsor video taping of the next Get Together. Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin in December. ...
Scrumtisch with Mary and Tom Poppendiek # Yesterday evening the Scrumtisch Berlin hosted a talk by Mary Poppendiek on Lean Development. Mary started the session with a talk on what lean development is all about and why it goes further than Scrum ever did. Some of the core principles she explained: The first goal of every lean project should be to strive for customer satisfaction. The low hanging fruit is to do exactly what the customer wanted to have. ...
katta @ Berlin # After finishing the slides for next week’s Mahout course at TU Berlin (if you are not subscribed yet: Subscribe now!) I spent half of the day in Tierpark Berlin: Watching ice-bears, taking pictures of tigers. On my way through the park I met those cute little guys: The plate next to the bawn gave them away as … kattas - so that is what they look like! ...
Lucene 2.9 @ Heise # After last week’s Hadoop Get Together heise published an in-depth article on the changes and improvements that come with the latest Lucene 2.9 release. Thanks to Simon Willnauer for helping me write this article and patiently explaining several new features. Thanks also to Uwe Schindler for kindly proof-reading the article before it was sent out to Heise.
Scrum Day Düsseldorf # On 01. to 02. December the Scrum Day is going to take place in Düsseldorf. If you are working in a non-Scrum company and would like to use agile methods both for development and management, I would like to recommend going to the talk by Thilo Fromm: Scrum in a waterfall. He explains how he transformed his project to an agile way in a waterfall environment. ...
Getting Hadoop trunk up and running from source # Having told Thilo about the possibility to write Hadoop jobs in Python with Dumbo, we spent some time getting Dumbo 0.21 up and running over the past weekend. The first option the wiki proposes is to take a pre-0.21 release and patch that to work with the current Dumbo release. The second option described takes the not-yet-released version of Hadoop that can be used w/o any patches. ...
Dev House Berlin 2.0 # This weekend DevHouseBerlin took place in the Box119, kindly organized by Jan Lehnardt, sponsored by Upstream and StudiVZ. There were about 30 people gathered in Friedrichshain, hacking and discussing various projects: Mostly Python/ Django, Ruby/ Rails and Erlang people. The first day was reserved for hacking and exchanging ideas. Late afternoon attendees put together a list of talks that were than rated, ranked with the top three chosen for presentation on Sunday. ...
One year coding with “Das Keyboard” # Little more than a year ago, I got myself a keyboard from newthinking store. The special thing about it: It is completely black, except for three blue LEDs. With completely I mean no labels on any key: My main motivation to buy the thing was not the missing labels (although that certainly does make it a cool gadget). I am typing 8h at work and do spend quite a bit of time in front of my laptop after work as well. ...
Slides are up # The slides for yesterday’s talks just arrived. They are available online at: Isabel Drost: Brief introduction. Thorsten Schuett: Solving puzzles with map reduce. Thilo Goetz: An introduction to jaql. Uwe Schindler: Lucene 2.9 developments. Videos will be online early next week.