simpligility – Manfred Moser

    Category: Announcement

    • A new chapter – your support makes a difference

      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 just continued my software development and community work – we didn’t even call our work open source. Over the many years I have become heavily involved in the Java, Android, DevOps, security, and other communities and projects like Apache Maven, Jenkins/Hudson, Trino, and many others.

      For years, I’ve dedicated myself to building, maintaining, and improving projects that are critical to developers and organizations globally. The commitment has definitely varied and sometimes included parts of that open source work in my job description, but even then it always included many late nights. Now I am finding myself in a different situation again and I am trying something new…

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    • Six months a Chainguardian!

      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 far, and also a weird mixture of getting back to things I did a long time ago, continuing to use my skills and experience, working with new people and technologies, and taking on new tasks and responsibilities. Last week I joined my first company-wide meeting, and had a truly great surprise. But more about that later, let’s see what I have been up to.

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    • Google doubling down on AI

      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 open source community member. For Lukas it was the first bigger conference as university student, and his first visit to the Googleplex, thanks to our friend, host, and guide Matthew McCullough.

      Two days of attending keynotes and sessions, and numerous chats with our peers left us with lots of impressions that we discussed and talked about and want to share with you all.

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    • Meeting old and new friends in Seattle

      Manfred at Open Source Summit NA 2023

      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 will take the opportunity to meet many old and new friends from the open source community again at the Open Source Summit NA 2024 in Seattle.

      The summit is always an aggregation of many communities with an open source focus and extending into different topics. The range of these is truly impressive, and spans topics for everyone. I will dip into all the communities I have been involved in over the years including security and software supply chain, OSPOs and open source leadership, big data and AI, cloud, CD/DevOps and others. Mainly I will be there representing Trino and Starburst and connect to users in hallway chats. If you want to meet, just contact me.

      On Thursday, after all the action of the summit, I will hop on over to the Data Engineer Things meetup and present a Big Data Whirlwind Tour, with a Trino and personal experience perspective. I will bring some copies of my book Trino: The Definitive Guide and be available for question before, during, and after the meeting. Really looking forward to it.

    • Android Maven Plugin 4.6.0 Released

      Is it really nearly two years ago. Time certainly flies. My focus these days certainly has shifted away from Android development, but of course that does not mean I should let down the users of the plugin. So here it is .. a new release of the Android Maven Plugin.

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    • Kotlin for polyglot-maven

      In the Java/JVM and especially also in the Android eco-system the Kotlin programming language has found many friends and fans. It even is moving into native and web realms these days. With it popularity soaring it spreads out further and it was only natural to bump into the most widely used build system on the JVM – Apache Maven.

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    • ksoap-android 3.6.4

      So it seems a whole bunch of users are still in a situation where the use SOAP webservices and my trusty ksoap-android project is of service to them. Great!

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