Geek’s run in Berlin (or just a beer after run)

As you know I’ll be in Berlin Thursday and Friday for JUDCon talinkg about wise.
I’d like to use this opportunity to meet some of you and having great talks about Wise, SibillaTest (aka TestedBy), or any other geek’s argument…you know what non-geek calls crazy.
Where and when ca you find me? Well check on tripit when I’ll arrive and where I’ll stay.
I’ll be of course at JUDCon’s HackFest, but I’m more than open to plan other talks over a German beer.
Would you have a run with me? I’ll run in Berlin for sure Friday and maybe also Thursday in the morning (if I find friends running with me, I’ll run for sure Thursday too).
I have in mind more or less 10km of easy running (1h or so) to take a look to the city, since I”ve never stayed in Berlin and it seems I’ll not have more spare time to take a look around. More precisely I’d like to take this run.
Write me if you want to join me both for a run or a beer, we can agree meeting point and time. For German people: write me also if you see something wrong in the planned run…something like “too more traffic here”…or “too more gangsters there!!” :D

See you in Berlin

Wise will be at JUDCon (Berlin 7-8 October)

I’ll present Wise projcet during next upcoming JUDcon.
As you can see from the agenda the speech will part of “Soa and integration track” and will be focused on this points:

  • Wise core:
    • Support of WS-*
    • Integration in ESB
    • One line WS calls
    • API to explore the dynamic generated stubs
  • Wise-wegui:
    • A tool to help business analysts during validation tests of WS
    • The legacy web GUI and how it has been used in my company during the last year
    • The upcoming GWT gui
  • LMS: Logging Meta Service
  • The Wise Code donation: why have I donated my pet project to JBoss.org

I’ll post there a report of the speech and slides too.

I hope I’ll have also opportunities to have some interesting lightning talks about Wise and/or TestedBy during spare time there. Twitter, comment on the blog, or email are all fine if you want to contact me about that. I’ll probably post in next days some proposal to have a run together too :)

Small open source projects are difficult to keep alive. And what about Wise and TestedBy?

Hi all,
another time I have to say that a long time has passed since my last post :(

Well, I’ve been very very busy in last months driving (or at least help a lot to drive) a big change in my former company, leading a key project with more than fifty programmers involved distributed in various team, with a lot of biz analysts and so on. But it’s another story I’ll probably tell you at some point. But the important word in last sentence is former. Yep, who is following me on twitter (or have recently read about_us page or even is linked with me on linkedin) knows I’ve joined  Red Hat as Principal Software Engineer in JBoss division. That’s a cool interesting job (I’m working on IronJacamar project and AS7 development), but it’s making me very busy.

Anyway, back to the title of this post. It’s matter of fact that is very hard to keep alive open source projects in spare time. And maybe in last months some people thought that Wise is an almost dead project, and TestedBy a totally dead one. In fact we had very few time to  work on Wise and also on TestedBy for all the reasons stated above. But they aren’t dead and we are getting back on them (check last week commits for both!).

In particular Alessio is working on Wise to full support JBossWS-CXF container, while I’m planning to cleanup ESB module to support the last version (maybe after Alessio’s work). After that we will work on our object mapping subsystem needed to continue the implementation of our WebUI.

I’m refining in the mean time samples of TestedBy to make possible to release the first version of the project. BTW very probably we will leave “TestedBy” name and we will launch the first release of the project with a new cool name. I’ll keep you post here.

As said keeping open source project alive in spare time isn’t easy, and sometime it’s very very hard specially if contributors are very few and very busy. Would you be part of a cool open source project, with all the beauty of that? We would need in particular contributions for TestedBy in Eclipse area, but if you would land an hand in other area and/or in Wise we are fine with that too. Please contact us, your help could make the difference!

Last but not least Wise have a new very very cool logo. Thanks to Red Hat Design team and in particular to Cheynne for that! No link here…it merits a dedicated post!

As said a lot of cool stuffs are coming…stay tuned.

I’m partecipating in JBoss Community Leadership Awards

I’m participating in this poll as candidate for New features contribution.

As you probably remember I’ve contributed in DNA, JBossWS (sometime in the past), and JBossESB integrating Wise into ESB 4.4.  Moreover Wise is now a JBoss.org project: I’ve donated it some months ago and I’m leading the project there, and we have already released 0.9 and 1.0 versions.

If you like my efforts and would support me, and/or you are using Wise (within JBossESB or not) may I kindly ask  your vote there (you need a JBoss.org account, but it’s quite easy to register one):

http://www.jboss.org/community/poll.jspa?poll=1003

More infos from JBoss.og homepage:

Voting will end on January 30th 2009 and winners will be announced at the JBoss Virtual Experience, a web-based JBoss technology conference which will be held February 11th 2009. There is no charge for admission, but please advance register if you’d like to attend.
Terms and conditions are here. Please join us in giving these community members the recognition they deserve.

As said in this post, a lot of the strength spurring on an open source developer is narcissism. Help mine to grow up :P