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 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 →
DevOpsDays are always a great event for a geek to attend. You get to chat to fellow hackers and coders and therefore people, who actually understand what you are talking about. The vibe that results from these conversations is always … Read more →
This year is was time again to attend the Community Leadership Summit and OSCON. Taking my boys along I took the opportunity to attend and help at the Devoxx4Kids event as well. During OSCON I attended a whole lot of … Read more →