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Pojezd: Svět

Vítr kolem 8-12 metrů, 5.5 pod téměř stálým tlakem, 1.5 hodiny na vodě.

Za pražáky podle všeho skóroval jenom Tomík a to i přesto, že předpověď na Nechra byla strašně skvělá (Tomík v 12.00 SMSkuje že fouká 18 m/s).

May 28, 2006 CZ, Windsurfing

Pojezd: Svět

Naprosto nečekaný výjezd, cajky připraveny v autě jako obvykle, ráno zoufale pozdní probuzení, ale vítr na nás počkal a dorazil až po dvanáctý.

Díru v 5.5 z nechranic jsem narychlo u vody zalepil telepáskou, a vyrazil na krásný 2.5 hodinky ve skluzu při 8-10 metrech. Podařilo se pár daků a skluzovejch hals, ale forma z Prasonisi se ještě nevrátila.

Jarda dodal video z pojezdu: Svet.mpg

Aktualizace 8.6.2006: pridano video od Jardy

May 27, 2006 CZ, Windsurfing

Europen Spring 2006 - Report

Europen is a conference organized by group of users of open systems. It usually happens twice a year (spring and autumn) somewhere deep in the lovely nature of czech forests, in a place where network connectivity is an unknown term.

During the three days of conference, you can freely concentrate on very interesting topics being discussed there, meet your former (and possibly future) coleagues and friends, refresh your brain, and refill the batteries.

Due to a lack of time, I had only one spare day to spend there this spring, nevertheless , the topics were really mind provoking.

Updated 2006-05-28: Added missing presentation of XEN

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May 26, 2006 Conferences, EN, Opensource

Pojezd: Nechranice

První výjezd v sezóně. Foukalo kolem 10 metrů, hodně nárazové a občas hodně přeplachtěné. Jezdil jsem chvíli 5.5 než jsem do ní udělal při dakině díru a potom 4.7 až do mrtva. Celkově na vodě 2 hodiny, bylo slunečno, ale voda studená a celkem tuhnuly svaly a chytaly (asi nejen mě) křeče ze zimy.

May 19, 2006 CZ, Windsurfing

Marketing the Code: why opensource matters

Being an opensource product does not mean you can ignore marketing. If you think about your code from the market perspective, your target audience is probably the community, being it users, developers, testers, or those writing FAQs and documentation.

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May 15, 2006 EN, Opensource, Uncategorized

Software Sustaining: refresh your mind

I have recently started to work for SUN Microsystems as a sustaining engineer. Sustaining as a verb means maintaining a released version of some product, which does not probably sound that much appealing as it really is. Let me say what I have found during my first months of that increadible work:

• Developers are always at the bleeding edge, they do not care about users, and the only option they recommend you most of the time is to upgrade to the new version of a product, that is better, faster, with more features, …, and of course more bugs. It is worth pointing out that the upgrade process is never as simple as typing:
  # apt-get update && apt-get -yu dist-upgrade.
• You are seeing things that were never meant to be seen again (also known as CZ: kostra ve skříni).
• You are faced with all tons of the latest-and-greatest technology (read: Java + XML + ORM + [insert your favorite enterprise standard]) that actually never simplified any work, but thanx to which you are very well paid because there are less and less people who can orient in all that mess.
• You think more and more about software usability and consider buying yourself a Mac computer.
• You end up frequently at The Daily WTF, but this time you are not laughing as you did before. The daily WTF experience became your daily bread.

Having been working as a software designer and developer since the beginning of my career, I really love the sustaining work because it is almost endlessly refreshing. See you at The Daily WTF.

May 15, 2006 EN, Life at SUN, Uncategorized