Medieval Programming

Google officially announced Chrome OS. This is not a surprise for me, because I had this idea already last September. For me the browser is the heir to current operating systems. Especially on mobile platforms, where “web” is a much better standard as the wide range of current mobile OS could ever become.

Last Friday was a busy day at codecentric. About 100 people attended the first “Meet The Experts” conference. Our Experts were Kirk Pepperdine, Dr Heinz Kabutz, Alois Reitbauer and our CEO Mirko Novakovic. All 4 talks were excellent, giving some very deep insights into performance of Java applications. We had great catering all day, and the open space sessions were fun to attend. We called it a day after some excessive Guitar Hero performance after midnight.
Thank you all for attending, we well see us again soon.
Photos are available on Flickr.

Its great to see that continuous integration acceptance is growing. Sismo is the CI system created by the symfony team for monitoring symfony itself. It is written in symfony and will be open sourced.
When I first saw it, I was not happy about it. Mainly because it is “yet another tool”. But what I do like is to look at it. Its the most beautiful CI frontend I know. You might argue that being beautiful does not matter for a software development tool, but I tend to disagree. It just makes it more pleasant to work with it.

Chapeau, Sensio designers. I really like your designs. I think the symfony components website, which just had the third component launched, is one of the most appealing framework/library sites I have seen so far.