Sitting on my flight back from the mentor summit at Google HQ seems to boost my writing power. Although I wanted to get some coding done, I’m mainly writing E-Mail. But I digress, cause I wanna take the chance to summarize a couple of ideas and compile a list of lesson learned items which floated [...]
eclipse received 99 student applications for this years summer of code (soc) which is an impressive number that perfectly reflects the size/importance of the eclipse project in the open source community. on the other hand this makes handling and reviewing them a vast amount of work. following the call for help i therefore joined the [...]
i’ve update my recommended tracklist to reflect the latest program and schedule changes. the schedule is really packed with all kinds of interesting talks. it’s a pity i cannot make use of my shizophrenia on a physical level.
even though i didn’t win the foundations random drawing for free eclipsecon tickets, i’ll be at the conference anyway. versant realized it’s worth sending me to the heart of silicon valley to the town of santa clara. the only thing left to do is to register for the conference, decide if a cheaper but more [...]
in march EclipseCon 2007 is going to happen and i’d like to use my blog for shameless advertisement of this great event. btw. i was asked to promote my recommended track list which is according to wayne more diverse than the title “interesting tracks for a database vendor” suggests. while at it, check out the [...]
eclipse has turned five years old today. congratulations! if you want to leave your own birthday wishes, you can do so with a virtual birthday card.
the day started with another keynote speech titled the eclipse way. jeff mcaffer outlined the concepts behind the eclipse development process and the key features that make eclipse such a strong force in the opensource and business world. what stick to my mind is the word “continuous”. Eclipse uses a fairly agile development model that [...]
well, somehow i forgot about my own decision to write about work related issues only in english. how could this happen? :-o the evening started (btw. lunch was great due to my lactose medicine :-) with a talk/presentation of the tptp project. for some reason i really couldn’t follow the talk. This was obviously caused [...]
nun ist 1/4 der veranstaltung bereits vorüber und eine menge von notizen sammeln sich an. heute abend werde ich wohl eine menge digitalisieren/strukturisieren müssen. die informationsfülle ist einfach unglaublich. viele viele bereiche die alle auf eine oder eine andere art zusammen hängen. wie wird sich das nur über die jahre entwickeln, wie soll die informationsmenge [...]
nach einer ereignislosen bahnfahrt von hamburg nach stuttgart und anschliessender nutzung des nahverkehrs, traf ich gegen 21:30 am hotel linde ein. mit erstaunen nahm ich vier sterne am eingang war. soweit ich mich erinnere, habe ich es bisher noch nicht ueber zwei sterne gebracht. waehrend eines morgigen telefonats mit dem hotel (ich bin ja recht [...]