http://chris.commonboard.org Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:33:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The FOSDEM Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting will take place this weekend 6.-7-2-2010 in Brussels, Belgium. Some topics from the schedule Flukso: web-based community metering application SIP Communicator: Skype-like conf calls with SIP Communicator Copyleft Hardware and the Ben Nanonote Kaizendo.org: Customizing schoolbooks the free software way Archive: Past Talks Video http://chris.commonboard.org/2010/02/02/fosdem-2010/ Enjoy another day with talks about big web infrastructures @hdm-stuttgart.de! "Wer langsam ist wird verlassen" StudiVZ, XING und Co - Architektur und Betrieb sozialer Netzwerke Der StudiVZ-Gründer Dennis Bemmann, der Vice President Operations XING Dr. Johannes Mainusch und Heiko Specht, Account Manager Gomez Deutschland geben einen Blick hinter die Kulissen großer sozialer Netzwerke. Ergänzt wird das ... http://chris.commonboard.org/2010/01/14/wer-langsam-ist-wird-verlassen/ Nice talk "Infrastructure in the cloud area" from the O'Reilly Velocity Conference Conclusion Hard things remain hard. Using an API for system administration: more scaleable, better to handle. Automation, configuration management, self healing is cool. New efficiencies opten lead to new hard problems. It splits up the layers Bootstrapping: get hardware, network, OS in place Configuration: Get application ... http://chris.commonboard.org/2009/08/04/infrastructure-in-the-cloud-area/ Come & enjoy another Linux Day at Hochschule der Medien on Monday 25.05.2009 in 0711.de! 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, ... http://chris.commonboard.org/2009/04/30/linux-day-2009-own-your-data/ The T-Mobile G1 phone aka HTC Dream running the Linux based Google Android stack will be available in Germany for 495 EUR (without plan) on 02.02.2009 as announced on Heise mobil. Features include WiFi, HSDPA, GPS, compass and accelerometer. For Developers Google offers the G1 as "Dev-1" without SIM lock and ... http://chris.commonboard.org/2009/01/22/google-android-g1-phone-in-de/ The Book "Deploying Rails Applications" gives an good overview and tutorials on the infrastructure needed for a successfull web project. The central tool is the domain specific language for deployment capistrano which is inspired by rake, written in Ruby by Jamis Buck and integrated with the Ruby on Rails framework. I ... http://chris.commonboard.org/2008/09/04/deploying-web-applications-with-capistrano/ Enjoy running around on O'Reilly Radar as "the last guy" in this browser game... Like in real life: Make the crowd follow you && avoid the monsters && Have a lot of fun! http://chris.commonboard.org/2008/09/02/last-guy-running-on-oreilly-radar/ The Song "Code Monkey" hit the geek charts in 2006, has a nice wikipedia entry and really rocks. The New York Time article Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog has all the details. Even writer & performer Jonathan Coulton seems to like that one of the many fan videos. Enjoy this ... http://chris.commonboard.org/2008/08/19/code-monkey-or-sex-drugs-and-updating-your-blog/ Andrew S. Tanenbaum (Minix OS) & Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP) will do Keynotes at the Free and Open Source Software Conference 2008 http://www.froscon.de 23.- 24.08.2008 in Bonn, Germany. 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 http://chris.commonboard.org/2008/08/14/froscon-2008-open-source-conference/ This Linux Netbook looks amazing! 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 ... http://chris.commonboard.org/2008/08/05/beauty-linux-netbook-by-lenovo/