http://ervin.ipsquad.net White noise from a gearhead Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:32:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sorry to all the males out there, but I won't be posting pictures of Angelina Jolie... I'll be talking software here. So JOLIE is an interpreter for a high level language to interact with services. Services as in service oriented architecture, and yes that includes web services but also much more. ... http://ervin.ipsquad.net/2008/06/28/jolie-rocks/ As you might remember, I offered a drink to some of the people submitting talks for Akademy 2008. I know the schedule is not online yet, but to help you wait a bit I'm going to announce the Winners of the Akademy 2008 Drink Awards! So the following people met the criteria of ... http://ervin.ipsquad.net/2008/06/27/akademy-2008-drink-awards/ If anyone out there wonder why Aaron Seigo's blog is down, the reason is pretty simple... Its author got burnt out because of some of the poisonous people in our project. The story started several weeks ago (probably even months ago) with constant bashing of some of the decisions taken in ... http://ervin.ipsquad.net/2008/06/25/about-stop-energy/ In case you forgot, the deadline for Akademy 2008 CfP is in two days... yes, May 1st is coming quickly now! If you haven't submitted your abstract yet please don't wait for the last minute. Moreover, every year, after the CfP is over, I find people who should have submitted ... http://ervin.ipsquad.net/2008/04/29/akademy-submit-your-abstracts-now/ This week I've been participating to the FISL conference in Porto Alegre. I held a 3 hours long tutorial here to introduce students to Qt and KDE development frameworks. The feedbak I got was pretty good, the questions were interesting and I even managed to cover what I was planning ... http://ervin.ipsquad.net/2008/04/20/fisl-90/ I'm back from Milano. The first Plasma sprint has been a pretty good event. My only regret is the low productivity on the first day since we spent quite some time hunting for food. But once we found the right balance, the productivity just got through the roof and we ... http://ervin.ipsquad.net/2008/04/16/survived-to-a-tokamak-mark-i/ Once again I didn't blog in a while... In particular I didn't blog about this year project students even if they got covered once in the commit digest. Now we're two weeks away from the official end of those projects, so I thought it might be a good idea to ... http://ervin.ipsquad.net/2008/03/08/on-student-projects-and-hacking-sessions-in-toulouse/ Last week-end we had the release event in Toulouse, it has been the only french event and that's why I decided not to go to Mountain View. On friday evening we had a long user oriented talk with some bits of Aaron's keynote, followed by a cocktail and a merchandising ... http://ervin.ipsquad.net/2008/01/29/kde-40-release-party-in-toulouse/ Congratulations to all the people involved. Even if you just committed a couple of lines, made a bug report, showed support, etc. anything to push the project forward, you helped in making this release happen. You helped ensuring the future will be brighter. Be proud of you! Be Free. http://ervin.ipsquad.net/2008/01/12/now-its-easier-to-be-free/ From the 9th to the 14th I've been near Mumbai to attend Pradeepto's wedding. I didn't spend time to visit Mumbai itself and shared all my time between Panvel and New Panvel. I of course, once again, enjoyed the food... Maybe even a bit too much, I expect to come back home with some ... http://ervin.ipsquad.net/2007/12/17/pradeeptos-wedding-for-our-own-fun-and-profit/