Devoxx4Kids Poland 2014

Week ago there was first ever edition of Devoxx4Kids hosted in Poland. It is worth writing about it for several reasons.

First of all as a father of three I’m really happy to see such events happening locally. My own kids were still too young to participate therefore I’m already looking forward to the next edition! :) 

I have two very personal reasons to feel really proud about this event. Devoxx4Kids Poland was organised mainly by people from Warsaw JUG. As a member and one of previous leaders of this community - currently focusing on JBUG - I love to see how it is thriving. Lot of awesome new initiatives are being brought to live! 

Additionally this edition was sponsored by my employer - Red Hat. Let me just say that when I approached Mark Little - Vice President of Middleware Engineering - I didn’t have to ask twice about it. It makes a difference to work for a company which cares about local communities, spreading technology and educating people about it!

Last and probably most important reason - looks like this event might have been one of the biggest Devoxx4Kids worldwide!!! 112 kids attended 12 workshops in 8 parallel tracks…. wow! 

To give you an idea here is the agenda arranged by different age groups:

6+

• Dr Techniko
• LightBot
• Lego® WeDo basics

8+

• Lego® WeDo advanced
• Scratch
• Code.org

10+

• CoLoBot
• Lego® Mindstorms® Basic
• Minecraft

12+

• Sonic-Pi
• Lego® Mindstorms® Advanced
• Arduino

I would like to end with simply congratulating organisers - Ewa Waliczek, Dariusz Kaczynski, Michal Lewandowski and Tomasz Kucharski - together with all volunteers and other sponsors. Well done everyone!

Make sure to check out awesome photos from the whole event:

• Facebook gallery
• Picasa album

(all photos by fotomilo.pl and Andrzej Goławski)

Warsaw JBUG - Marek Goldmann presenting Docker

Warsaw JBoss User Group is only 2 months old still we already had our 3rd meeting. This time Marek Goldmann joined us to present Docker. New and cool light virtualization solution. We had a nice crowd of around 50 attendees and good followup discussions discussions after.

Time for some screencasts

Inspired by awesome work that Wesley Hales is doing in the JBoss Portlet Community I recently decided to try doing screencasts myself. Today I would like to share my first attempts with you. Movies below cover GateIn Portal integration with LDAP and give some insight about internal Picketlink IDM usage. First one demonstrates how you can start experimenting with sample configuration in few simple steps and uses OpenDS as an example server. Second one separately shows Active Directory integration as it requires few special config tweaks and includes MSAD installation instructions (in Part 1).









Both screencasts are based on tutorials that can be found in GateIn wiki:
- http://community.jboss.org/wiki/GateInwithLDAPasadefaultuserandgroupstore
- http://community.jboss.org/wiki/GateInwithLDAPinreadonlymode

So far my experience is that.... doing screencasts is way more challenging and time consuming than it seems :)

I hope to get some feedback from you (and I'm already aware about few things that I could have done better...)

P.S. Big thanks to Wesley for sharing his screencast experience