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For this year’s BarCamp Salzburg I prepared a presentation on scrum, this agile process I fell in love with while I was in London. Lessons learned after I held the presentation? Examples first.

See the presentation (done with Dr. Nic’s codex): http://ananasblau.com/scrum

I didn’t mention githorde yet, it’s something we came up two weeks ago. The idea is pretty simple, a loosely group of developers picking up open source projects and developing new features. We want to jump from one project to the next every few weeks, just like every good barbarian horde would.

Today was the first session, only one and a half hour where Andrew and I met in IRC and did some work on feeddit which was released to open source just a few weeks ago. We achieved our targets (caching, new digg library and filtering by topics) and despite trouble with git (well, at least Andrew, me totally gits it!) we are very happy with our first session.

If you want to join the horde, register at the website and participate. You’ll get a message when the next session takes place.

I didn’t yet look into Django as it’s written in Python and now my now-favourite Ruby. But there’s a weekend-contest coming up: Django Dash. I had a hell lotta fun at the Railsrumble in September, despite a broken shoulder (still hurts every now and then). I guess I’ll take part in this dash, I still remember some Python from the old days and 48 hours is enough time to get into a new framework :-)

the conference started smoothly, despite not enough power cords (lucky me with my iPod touch) and the Prague marathon right outside the university. The keynote was hold by Matz and reeally grew in the second half where it was about m17n and issues with that. Koichi showed some benchmarks and details from his YARV. Charles and Thomas from the JRuby announced the brandnew version 1.1 and outlined it's new features and optimisations. They'll second part was writing GUI apps, a five-liner for a swing-frame including a button and an event many LOC less than pure Java. The Rail part was kept short and featured a few references of production sites running JRuby. After a short break to their mac's problems and questions from the audience about testing the ruby-specs, the finished with demoing ruby-processing (this great graphics library) samples running them on JRuby.

It's only a day and I'll be sitting in the trains (seven hours) to Prague for the "Euruko 2008":http://www.euruko2008.org/ where Matz will hold the keynote and the continent's ruby hackers will gather for two days. Things I'm really looking forward for: * living without my Macbook for a whole weekend * David A. Black on „Per-Object Behavior in Ruby“ * Nic Williams — „Meta-Meta-Programming with Ruby“ * Tim Becker — „Lessons Learned Writing Native Extensions“ * all those lightning talks * and of course the parties on Friday and Saturday