Bertrand's brain grep

The ApacheCon's Crowdwine site allows you to find out which contributors to a given project are attending the conference (assuming they provide that info, of course).

A JCR community meetup is being organized as a sidetrack of ApacheCon Europe 2008.

See the timeline, now is the time for students to talk to us (mentors) and to prepare and submit applications.

Geek trivia question: when do you need svn delete CVS?

Someone was asking about ujax:redirect in Sling.

Searching for info about past GSoC programs I stumbled on http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ - looks like the 2008 edition is starting already!

I've been listening to a few podcasts recently, which were obviously recorded using Skpye or another VoIP technology.

On second thought, I'll post my (tentative) recommendations for creating maintainable docs here, excerpted from my post to sling-dev.

Reflecting on my activities in the last few months (especially around Sling and how we use it), I notice that Developer Usability is often my concern.

If you read this on planetapache.org, the post title most probably says "Bertrand".

Although it's old news already (well, two days old), I'm pleased to mention that Roy Fielding finally has a blog.

I'm preparing to move this to a hosted wordpress blog - hosting your own sounded like fun a few years ago, but I have more fun things to do now!

Content moved, redirects are in place, looks good.

Even though Gmail bothers us with its Sender header, Google Groups's set of virtual gray matter is apparently too small to figure out that From: "Bertrand Delacretaz" <myself@somewhere.ch> Sender: myself@gmail.com comes from myself@gmail.com.

I hope to make it to Martin Odersky's The Scala Experience talk, next Monday at EPFL Lausanne.

No LIFT for me once again this year, due to a timing collision with The Important Phase of That Project.

Carlos Perez puts OSGI and JCR number 5 and 4 in his list of top Java-based technologies to learn in 2008.

We finally got around to documenting the Sling Launchpad (previously known as µsling 2.0) - so grab that while it's hot: Discover Sling in 15 minutes will tell you everything you didn't dare to ask.

See here and here.

Picture by www.paulthewineguy.com and Auguste Rodin.

Like several other people I think Atom and JCR are made to collaborate.

(no I'm not going back to freelancing ;-) Stephanie Booth announces the Going Solo conference, for freelancers and small business owners of the internet industry, in (our beautiful) Lausanne on May 16th.

Congratulations to the Jackrabbit team for their 1.4 release.

Just spotted this on reuters.com: Ah no..wait, there's more: People should use &nbsp; more often ;-)

If so you can watch His Steveness's keynote - edited down to 60 seconds by the mahalo folks.

As part of the GHOP program, Ujjwol Lamichhane presented the Apache Software Foundation to his schoolmates in his uncle's store in Kathmandu, Nepal!

Release 0.1 of Tika is out, grab it while it's hot!

I know Sandro back from the LOTS days, and few people combine such a dedication to Open Source with field-proven marketing skills.

Comment spammers seem to be warming up for the holiday season, so I have closed comments for almost all entries on this blog.

More info will come in due time...

Me, I'm seriously thinking of investing in those Web two-oh friendship bracelets...

As part of GHOP, a student is preparing a presentation of the ASF in Lithuanian.

That's what I'm going to talk about at ApacheCon EU 2008.

The Google Highly Open Participation Contest just went live.

After receiving way too many emails asking me to fill out way too many survey forms about how open source projects work, I'm opting out of any such surveys.

Stumbled on this quote from our very own Ken Coar, from an IRC interview that took place in February 2004: DaMouse404 asks: do you see any features in the IIS that you would like in Apache?

So I tried the Wi-Fi provided by Boingo at the Atlanta airport the other day, and haven't been too successful with it.

Here are my slides from last week's ApacheCon.

I'm sitting in Ken Krugler's talk about krugle.org, and I realize I should have looked at that earlier.

Yesterday night's BOF was a good opportunity to make more people aware of the nice things in Sling, and now Felix is on stage talking about it as part of the Fast Feather Track.

I'm sitting in Gianugo's talk on Open Development and he's brilliant as usual - despite the jet lag.

If you're staying at the Westin, a few of us are going for a swim every morning (until now at least ;-) around 7:30 AM.

If you're here, don't miss the Sling and microsling action!

I think Gianugo is very right here.

I'm off to ApacheCon US 2007, joining some Day folks in Frankfurt and then onwards across the pond.

Especially when pmarca uses his blog to announce his (and his wife's) $27.5 million donation to Stanford Hospital.

Remember that the easiest way to have your car use less oil is to leave it in the garage...

It'd be cool to have an official Java 6 VM for macosx Leopard soon, so: 13949712720901ForOSX.

I know...when you work for a company named Day, lame jokes are easy to come by...but hey, not all companies with 3-letter domain names are that fun!

At least not until they fix their Java support.