I honestly don’t remember my first open source contributions. I was involved in some of the early days of hacking, modding, and working on shareware and freeware before the internet and then in newsgroups – remember those? From there I … Read more →
Wow .. has time ever flown by! It’s is now just over 6 month ago that I became a Chainguardian and let you all know with a fun public service announcement video. Joining Chainguard has been an amazing experience so … Read more →
What happened? Did another year really just whizz past me? I am still typing 2024 dates, but it is true. 2025 is here, and soon we will also switch to the new lunar year, so it is time to look … Read more →
We just came back from our visit to Mountain View to attend Google IO 2024 in person. For Manfred it has been a flashback to the days of regular IO attendance as GDG leader and heavily involved Android developer and … Read more →
It has been a long time that spring time has marked the moment to get ready for the Google IO developer conference for me. Its been many years since I last went to the conference. It started with IO 2009 … Read more →
It has already been over week since I got back from Seattle, where I attended the Open Source Summit NA in the beautiful convention centre. In the same trip I also presented at the Data Engineer Things group’s inaugural meeting … Read more →
Wow, has it really been a year that I went to Open Source Summit NA in Vancouver? Turns out this year the event is again close to me, and across the water from Victoria, BC. With that in mind I … Read more →
Two weeks ago I was asked to go to Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver on short notice. Last week I took a beautiful floatplane ride in the morning to get there from my home on Vancouver Island. … Read more →
It all started many years ago when I regularly taught virtual and in person training classes for Apache Maven and Sonatype Nexus. At some stage when working on the Takari material Jason van Zyl suggested that we use Trino … Read more →
It has been a bit over two months now and our book Trino: The Definitive Guide has been spreading like wildfire in the Trino community. Starburst has sponsored the digital copy for everyone, so you can get your free PDF … Read more →