If you are going to Fosdem 2012, here is some useful hotel info. Hotels near to Grand Place and to the Delirium Cafe (yes, the party is there). This location is near to all sights and it’s good idea to stay here instead near to the FOSDEM venue; Cheapest hotels in Brussels. Hotels near to … Read more
Not unlike the great zebras and lions of the wild, the “Suits” (Marketing, Sales, Creative) and “Geeks” (Dev, Ops, Infra) in an IT company often face misunderstandings. When highly-technical and less-technical employees in a fast-growing tech shop like ZeroTurnaround need to accomplish something jointly, good communication is clearly necessary, but it’s not a one-sided thing. … Read more
Often when discussing OSGi at events, conferences or forums, we hear things like, “Yeah, I like JRebel but now we are using OSGi”, or “Does JRebel support OSGi”, or “Isn’t OSGi the same as JRebel?”. Sometimes it happens that people start comparing OSGi to JRebel, which is kind of like comparing a Ferrari to a … Read more
I was trying to find an application to use Google Docs offline. I don’t like to use 3th party services for my documents and I want the control to be in my hands, but the company I work for uses GDocs for some of the projects. So, I am browsing to find a way to … Read more
Finding a way to stimulate/encourage your community to do stuff can be a very difficult task. I will show you an Agile-like approach to do that and actually it works pretty well, but remember: Don’t try to control your community, try to manage it. Create the infrastructure Get an account in Trello. Define your basic … Read more
