Announcing [lao] – An online collaboration platform
This semester Siamak Haschemi asked me to assume a project in the course Software Project I (the course is divided in two parts and last a whole year). Goal of this course is to teach the students how to work in teams over a longer distance. For this purpose he invited several companies to put some project ideas to the students. He also asked me to make a proposal for the course. My project idea was chosen by six students, who will develope the system. The process model for the development process will be Scrum, an agile method to managing tasks in teams.
Google+ Developer Feed
Google+ is Google’s attempt to establish his own social community. At the moment Google+ is in a beta state and not open for everybody, but I’m already in because of an invitation. Google is not just another Facebook or Orkut. It allows to seperate contacts in different circles. But you can not only sepereate your contact, you can also share your informations depending on the circles you created. At this point it feels more like a real social network. Like in real life I can seperate e.g. my family, friends and colleagues.
As a developer I’m interested to see an API for the use of Google+ . For this point Google shares informations about it over this site:
https://services.google.com/fb/forms/plusdevelopers/
In Addition: My Blog supports now the “+1″
Participated at Eclipse Demo Camp 2011 @ Berlin
Yesterday I visited the Eclipse Demo Camp in Berlin. The event took place on the Campus Charité Mitte. Since the beginning of my master thesis I somehow get drawn in the Eclipse Community. There are many nice tools, which can enhance the work for us developers. The schedule for the presentations can be found here.
At this point I shortly want to introduce some frameworks/apps that impressed me yesterday.
Running Hazelcast node on an Amazon EC2 instance
In this little tutorial I will show how simple it is to run an Hazelcast instance on an Amazon EC2 node.
The first thing we will do is launching a new EC2 node.
For doing this go to your AWS Management Console and select the Amazon EC2 tab.
On the Dashboard you will see a fancy really big (Launch Instance) button. Click on it and follow the instructions. For this tutorial I suppose to choose the following kind of an EC2 node:
- Basic 32-bit Amazon Linux AMI 1.0
- Instance Type: Micro (t1.mircro, 613 MB)