Presentation shortening # In an effort to make more room for more talks in our schedule for this year’s Berlin Buzzwords we’ve asked quite a few people to shorten their presentation from 40min down to 20min. The thought behind it is to not only give more people a chance to talk on their work but also have those shorter talks focused down to the absolute essential information for people to learn. ...
Apache Con Wrap Up # First things first - slides, audio and abstracts of Apache Con are all online now on their Lanyrd page. So if you missed the conference or could not attend a session due to conflicting with another interesting session - that’s your chance to catch up. For those of you who are speaking German, there’s also a summary of Apache Con available on heise Open. (If you don’t speak German, I have been told that the Google Translate version of the site captures the gist of the article reasonably 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.