It was my pleasure and privilege to attend Codebits in 2009. As Roland Bouman says, its talk choice method is based on public voting, and therefore everyone cha have contribute to the schedule.
But that is not the main reason for attending this extraordinary event. It is not just a conference. It's an innovation fest. For 1 and 1/2 days, it's a conference, where the speakers are encouraged to bring to their audience the most innovative and inspiring talks. In the afternoon of the second day, the event becomes a competition, where the teams that have registered will have 24 hours to bring a project to completion, and they have to start and finish within the allotted time.
The project can be anything, and I have seen quite a lot of exciting stuff rolling live in the huge pavilion:
I could hardly ignore robotics, as these little mechanical smurfs were running all over the place and you would have to be careful not to squash them when you walked.
There was plenty of occasions for planning of great projects, together with attempts at improving social relations, and mixing up with big brother.
There were projects based on 3D printing, and less broad projects like all-seasons keyboards.
A very popular session, followed by practical workshops was lock picking. I attended one of them, learned how to pick simple and less simple locks, and I brought home some lockpicking tools.
On a more technical level, I was there with Lenz Grimmer and Kai Seidler, we spoke about MySQL and other cool things, and we had lots of fun for three days.
Besides the teams hacking away at their projects, there were several teams showcasing technology that had been developed by winners of the previous years, such as 3D television and intelligent phone networks.
In short, This was an inspiring event, which I can warmly recommend.
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Monday, August 15, 2011
CodeBits - An event of competitive innovation
It was my pleasure and privilege to attend Codebits in 2009. As Roland Bouman says, its talk choice method is based on public voting, and therefore everyone cha have contribute to the schedule.
But that is not the main reason for attending this extraordinary event. It is not just a conference. It's an innovation fest. For 1 and 1/2 days, it's a conference, where the speakers are encouraged to bring to their audience the most innovative and inspiring talks. In the afternoon of the second day, the event becomes a competition, where the teams that have registered will have 24 hours to bring a project to completion, and they have to start and finish within the allotted time.
The project can be anything, and I have seen quite a lot of exciting stuff rolling live in the huge pavilion:
I could hardly ignore robotics, as these little mechanical smurfs were running all over the place and you would have to be careful not to squash them when you walked.
There was plenty of occasions for planning of great projects, together with attempts at improving social relations, and mixing up with big brother.
There were projects based on 3D printing, and less broad projects like all-seasons keyboards.
A very popular session, followed by practical workshops was lock picking. I attended one of them, learned how to pick simple and less simple locks, and I brought home some lockpicking tools.
On a more technical level, I was there with Lenz Grimmer and Kai Seidler, we spoke about MySQL and other cool things, and we had lots of fun for three days.
Besides the teams hacking away at their projects, there were several teams showcasing technology that had been developed by winners of the previous years, such as 3D television and intelligent phone networks.
In short, This was an inspiring event, which I can warmly recommend.
Friday, December 04, 2009
Gearman: distributed computing and Codebits pictures
 | The first Codebits> day lasted until long past midnight. So the attendees were a bit sleepy today, but they were brave and got up early enough for my session. The presentation covered the basics of Gearman, some advanced magic to install remote MySQL servers, and more magic to enable MySQL users to shoot themselves in the foot repeatedly by combining a gearman/MySQL UDF and some clever scripts. As usual, the slides are available on slideshare. Some pictures from codebits 2009 are on Flickr. |
Worshiping Technology.
Cool technology to worship.
 José, the mastermind |  Josette, the culture provider |
 Gonçalo, the friendly face who met me at the airport | &nbs; Pedro, magnificent guide of town and technology. |
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Codebits 2009, coders conference and competition in Lisbon
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| Codebits is approaching. Form December 3rd to 5th, this gathering of 600 developers for a conference, which is also and foremost a competition, will occupy the mind of the best coders in Europe. I will be a speaker, with two sessions:
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Also Lenz will be there, and quite busy. He will also have two sessions:
- Why you should be using a distributed version control system (DVCS) for your project, with advice that will benefit every developer.
- MySQL High Availability Solutions - Best practices and commonly used HA setups for MySQL
The event is hardly like any other conference. It will be a momentous show, with a part that start like a conference but goes on as a competition.
If you like coding, you must show up!
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