http://martinman.net the personal weblog of Martin Man Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:31:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm happy to announce that we have completed everything and we are ready for the conference. The last remaining bits with the VISA payment system have been sorted out and we have successfully opened registration for the visitors. Here is the official announcement Dirk has sent out on May 15. I ... http://martinman.net/2008/06/03/osdevcon-2008-register-now/ The organization team of the OpenSolaris Developer Conference 2008 was rather busy over the past months. It looks like we are approaching the deadline for paper submissions, so if you haven't already submitted your presentation, do so now. If you did, than thanx a lot, all the submissions we received ... http://martinman.net/2008/04/16/osdevcon-2008-call-for-papers-closing-soon/ One of the pictures that represent Cuba in its whole reality. Beautiful land and beautiful people suppressed by the regime. Just compare that with India. I'm now going to be busy in the dark room enlarging all the portraits I have shot there. http://martinman.net/2008/01/11/cuba-closed-n-melancholic/ This is one of the pictures I have taken during my last stay in India. For me, this picture represents the whole beauty of Indian country. Especially when compared to Cuba. http://martinman.net/2008/01/11/india-open-n-optimistic/ OpenSolaris Developer Conference 2008 Call For Papers has just been opened. I'm proud to be part of the organization team and also of the fact that we are hosting the conference in the city I live in, which is Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. We are looking forward meeting ... http://martinman.net/2007/12/04/osdevcon-2008-call-for-papers/ The dark days of OpenSolaris are gone. From build 78, VIM, a powerful editor of choice for many programmers written by Bram Moolenar, will become part of Solaris Freeware Consolidation. In short that means that you should not see the familiar vim: command not found message anymore. VIM will become part ... http://martinman.net/2007/11/12/vim-command-not-found/ Title says it all. Nexenta Systems Inc., the company behind Nexenta Operating System, a powerful combination of OpenSolaris Core and Debian/GNU Linux packaging system and user land applications today announced availability of the NEXENTASTOR APPLIANCE. It is based on OpenSolaris, it is based on Debian/GNU, it features ZFS root/boot configuration, transactional ... http://martinman.net/2007/11/01/the-swiss-army-knife-of-data-storage/ Here is Moinak talking enthusiastically about the Project Indiana at October BOSUG Meeting where I had a chance to talk a bit about the Challenges and Future Plans for Nexenta. The audience was very open asking a lot of questions and discussing with smile on their faces various aspects of open ... http://martinman.net/2007/10/09/nexenta-indiana-bosug/ I have finished reading the book My Job Went To India just one week before leaving to India for another business trip. Highly Recommended to anybody working in a global company... Although I usually really like books from The Pragmatic Programmers, I kind of didn't want to read that one ... http://martinman.net/2007/10/03/my-job-went-to-india/ http://martinman.net/2007/08/02/surf-academy-2007-report/