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This Saturday we’ve (the Software Craftsmanship in Cracow guys) organized a Code Retreat, right after AgileCE. We’ve invited Corey Haines to join us and facilitate this meetup, and later on even Alexandru Bolboaca AND Maria Diaconu joined us in facilitating the event and so it got even better :-) Before we start, just a quick reminder [...]

Yesterday and today I’ve been hacking some JavaScript during a free training organized by http://releasingforce.com/ although they’re not really braging that it’s them who do these meetings, more precisely: http://www.devmeetings.pl/ :-) As I’m coding quite a lot GWT and JS has also become quite powerfull in the last years I enlisted the training to learn [...]

Yes, it’s time for another JavaCamp mini-review… :-) Without further intros, let’s get down do the presentations: Łukasz Lenart – “Nie samym kodem programista żyje” Łukasz’s presentation was not a technical one this time. He talked about how to be/become an effective programmer. A nice tip he noted was to carry a notebook and note [...]

Yup, I’m now an happy owner of an Amazon Kindle. In case you don’t know what it is (…how’s that even possible…?) it’s an ebook reader. One of that kind we’ve been waiting for a loooong time now – with an e-ink display and free internet access etc etc… Here’s an super quick review of [...]

After I came back to Poland this week I had an bazillion of things to do… Now it’s just getting even more but I’ll try survive this. One additional time-taker this week was this years Java Developers’ Day. In fact, it should have been renamed and I’m very wondered that it wasn’t to: “Java Developer [...]

At last I was able to attend one of the NOSQL Summer meetings. It’s topic yesterday was “Paxos made simple” (this paper by Leslie Lamport (wikipedia entry about him)). We also found this document from Google Labs very interesting and usefull during the discussion – Paxos Made Live – An Engineering Perspective (Tushar Chandra, Robert [...]

I’ve been coding an simple RESTful “ip to country” conversion service. I’ve decided to put it up to appengine – so that everybody may use it freely even if I’d change my server etc… And if looked quite nice the first day – buw when I got to do some “real stuff” app engine started [...]

Yup, last Saturday we’ve had yet another JavaCamp in Cracow. It was in my opinion the best yet – mostly due to our awesome speakers. One could call this “JavaCamp” an “ScalaCamp” if you think about it – as most of the topics (3/4) where mostly about scala (AKKA is avaiable as both Java and [...]

Amazing days and awesome people It’s been some amazing days for me during (and before) the NBPTraining. As you probably know already – I’ve been the “one-man-army” behind the organization and basically everything around this training. I got lots of help from various people, such as Dr Jarosław Wąs (from KN Glider) – it wouldn’t [...]

Today we were with my girlfriend to see Bizet’s “Carmen” at the Cracow Opera – celebrating one of your special days. The opera didn’t move me as much as Rigoletto did, but it still was a great spectacle in 4 acts. One has to say that the scene was heavily and very creatively used, as [...]