• Starting with OpenWRT on consumer routers
• stepping into 2 session on Groupware
• another 2 full on Mozilla open web technology and community topics
• “local network” with the Linux User Group Stuttgart and Open Source Region Stuttgart
• Join us in Unithekle, (some) free beers, open end
• Bring your router to Unithekle for OpenWRT hacking, see hardware compatibility list
• Video Stream

For Developers Google offers the G1 as “Dev-1” without SIM lock and the possibility to load custom operating system images for 560 USD (incl. tax & shipping to Germany).

Radical change of functions and the look & feel of Android devices is encouraged, all functions of the phone and a rich API can be accessed by Java code, which runs in a non Java ME compatible VM called Dalvik.

Getting started with a “Hello World” programm using the Eclipse plugin is easy & well documented. The Eclipse plugin provides an emulator, debugger and profiler, so there is no need to by a device at first.

The first chapter of the wrox book “Professional Android Application Development” is available as free PDF and gives an overiew of features, possibilities and technology.

I really liked reading this clear and progressive book by Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Bruce Tate, and Clinton Begin published by Pragmatic Programmers. The chosen analogy “moving into a new house” helps to understand why it is a good idea to automate server handling and web deployment. The main parts are

1. “bootstrap subversion” chapter on version control
2. hosting environments on shared and dedicated hosts.
3. The chapter on capistrano is the only printed documentation on that tool by now.
   Capistrano offers default deployment “tasks” for Ruby on Rails, but can be adopted e.g. for PHP Projects or admin tasks like key deployment, installation/compilation of software. Commands get pushed to servers in bash syntax via SSH in parallel. The servers can be grouped in “roles” like “web”, “db”, “all” or “most fancy customer”.
4. mongrel servers
5. scaling, performance
6. deployment on windows

Like in real life: Make the crowd follow you && avoid the monsters && Have a lot of fun!

Even writer & performer Jonathan Coulton seems to like that one of the many fan videos. Enjoy this Music Video by Kagato@StudioHybrid.org giving pictures to the words & music which express the real reality of some members of our contemporary society :]

Code Monkey MP3 & Code Monkey Games

Talks of the remarkable conference schedule will be streamed by linux-magazin.de.

phpVikinger Derick Rethans will talk on 7 (or more) PHP Myths defused.

Press Announcement

• Models “Ideapads S9″ and “S10″ cost about 320-360 EUR in .de
• From Oktober in shops
• 1GB RAM memory
• 160 GByte-Harddisk or 4 GByte SSD (Solid State Drive)
• Display is 1024 wide
• Express Card Slot
• Linux (Distro to be announced) or WinXP

Full News text in Linux Magazine Germany

This is the product picture you can see in the News http://www.linux-magazin.de/content/view/full/24797

This is a shorter one How to write an Informatics Paper.

Alan Bundy seems to know what he is talking about and was Head of the Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 1998-2001. Students like him, they wrote this Liber Amoricum:

Björn Schotte of php-magazine talked with Jürgen Langner, Global Marketing Director at Zend Technologies about recent sacked people in R&D and the current Zend roadmap.
Jürgen Langner said, that I is a goal of Zend to stand on own feet without more money by investors.
Interview Jürgen Langer on it-republik.de

Here is a little serenade for the Omnisio guys, 2 weeks old but still fair enough…

http://www.omnisio.com/liquid/dancing-liquid

Congratulations!