GSoC: Student applications. # Title: GSoC: Student applications closed Link out: Click here Description: After this date no more student applications are accepted. Internal ranking at Apache starts 7 days earlier. The ranking process finishes at 16th of April. Date: 2009-04-03
Students begin coding for their GSoC projects # Title: Students begin coding for their GSoC projects Link out: Click here Description: GSoC time. Date: 2009-05-26
Apache Con Europe 2009 - part 3 # Friday was the last conference day. I enjoyed the Apache pioneers panel with a brief history of the Apache Software Foundation as well as lots of stories on how people first got in contact with the ASF. After lunch I went to the testing and cloud session. I enjoyed the talk on continuum and its uses by Wendy Smoak. She gave a basic overview of why one would want a CI system and provided a brief introduction to continuum. ...
Apache Con Europe 2009 - part 2 # Thursday morning started with an interesting talk on open source collaboration tools and how they can help resolving some collaboration overhead on commercial software projects. Four goals can be reached with the help of the right tools: Sharing the project vision, tracking the current status of the project, finding places to help the project and documenting the project history as well as the reasons for decisions along the way. ...
Apache Con Europe 2009 - part 1 # The past week members, committers and users of Apache software projects gathered in Amsterdam for another Apache Con EU and to celebrate the 10th birthday of the ASF. One week dedicated to the development and use of Free Software and the Apache Way. Monday was BarCamp day for me, the first BarCamp I ever attended. Unfortunately not all participants proposed talks. So some of the atmosphere of an unconference was missing. ...
Cloud Camp Berlin # Title: Cloud Camp Berlin Link out: Click here Date: 2009-04-30<br />
FSFE booth at the Chemnitzer Linux Tage # This year for the 11th time the “Linux Tage” were organized at the university of Chemnitz. Each year in March this means two days devoted to the topic of open and free software. It means an event that is very well organized by a pretty professional team of volunteers. For the third time the FSFE had its booth at the event - this time run by Rainer Kersten, Uwe Zemisch and me. ...
Books I found particularly helpful # During the last few years I have quite a few books that one could easily file under the category “Hacking books”. Some of them were particularly interesting to me and have influenced the way I write code. The following list certainly is not complete at all - but it is a nice starting point. Effective C++ - I have comparably little experience with C++ but this book really helped understand some of the particularities. ...
Scrum Roundtable Berlin # Title: Scrum Roundtable Berlin Location: DiVino Restaurant, Grünberger Str. 69, Friedrichshain Link out: Click here<br />Start Time: 18:00 Date: 2009-04-22 The next Scrum Roundtable is scheduled already. Thoralf, will present his speech from the Orlando ScrumGathering Agile Creation of Multi-Product Solutions Motivation for Network Solutions and their Agilility Scaling Single Product Creation Product Solutions using Scrum Customizing Projects Outlook Please let Marion know if you are coming to be able to organise the space. ...
Erlang User Group - Scala # What: Scala Presentation by Stefan Plantikow. Where: Cockpit of the Box119 http://boxhagener119.de/ (Ring at UPSTREAM) When: Wednesday, 11.03.2009, 8:00 p.m. Yesterday the Erlounge, organised by Jan Lehnardt, took place in the Cockpit of Box119 in Berlin. Topic of the evening was an introduction to Scala. Scala is a functional language that compiles to Java Bytecode and runs on the JVM. It tries to combine the best from two worlds: Object oriented languages and functional programming. ...