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Vergangenes Wochenende fand die neunte deutsche Ubucon in Berlin statt. Ich selbst war dieses Mal erstmals als Hauptorganisator tätig. Nach 2012 waren wir dieses Mal erneut zu Gast bei der HWTK mitten in Berlin. Der Veranstalter war wie jedes Jahr der ubuntu Deutschland e.V.. Freitag Die Ubucon beginnt traditionell am Freitag. Ich selbst war schon sehr früh in Berlin und hatte so noch ein wenig Zeit mit zwei Freunden Berlin ein wenig zu erkunden. Um 14 Uhr ging es dann mit Aufbau los, geholfen haben glücklicherweise einige freundliche Helfer. Mit dabei waren auch zwei Freifunker, die sich um den Aufbau der Netzwerkinfrastruktur gekümmert haben. In diesem Sinne: Vielen Dank an Lynxis, der hier mit seinem Kollegen sehr viel Zeit und Arbeit reingesteckt hat! Gegen 17.30 ging es dann in Richtung „Story of Berlin“, wo wir mit etwas Verspätung die Führung durch den Atomschutzbunker und durch das Museum bekommen haben. Vor allem der Atomschutzbunker war sehr interessant. Im Anschluss ging es dann in das Restaurant Route 66, wo nach und nach noch mehr Leute dazu stießen, sodass wir dort knapp 40 Leute waren. ...

Last weekend the 9th Ubucon in Germany took place in Berlin. It was the first time that I was the head of the organisation team for the vent. After 2012, it was the second time that we were guests at HWTK in the Center of Berlin. It was as always hosted by the ubuntu Deutschland e.V.. Friday Traditionally, the Ubucon begins on a Friday. Personally, I was in Berlin in the early morning, so I had time to see a bit of Berlin. In this case I’ve met SturmFlut for the first time and Riccardo Padovani for the second time. After we visited a couple of things in Berlin, I went to the venue to set up the rooms for the Ubucon. Thankfully we had many people who helped! After (nearly) everything was setup, we went over to the museum “Story of Berlin”. There, we had a really interesting tour through a fallout shelter and the museum. We did learn how they would organise the bunker, if there would be a worst case scenario. In the museum itself, we learned many things about the history of Berlin. We were roughly 20 people in the museum, later on, we moved to the Restaurant called “Route 66” where 40 people came together for the social event. ...

The last weeks and months were very intensive in terms of my Ubuntu activities. I’m not only doing the last preparations of this years Ubucon Germany where I’m the head of the organisation team for the first time, also we successfully ran the first community-driven app developer contest called UbuContest. The contest was initiated by SturmFlut and me, and we thankfully got the support from Daniel Holbach, David Planella and Canonical. Additionally, we had jury where I was part of! ...

Fellow Ubuntu Member Nathan Haines has recently published his first book “Beginning Ubuntu for Windows and Mac Users”. Nathan asked me to review his book, I couldn’t decline it. What is in it? The book is divided into six different chapters and two appendices. It was written by Nathan Haines, who is a long time Ubuntu User, Ubuntu Community Contributor and organisator of UbuCon at SCaLE. The book was published by Apress and has a length of 244 pages. ...

Das Buch „Professionell entwickeln mit JavaScript“ des Autors Philip Ackermann behandelt grundsätzlich das Entwickeln von Anwendungen mit der Programmiersprache JavaScript. Was steht drin? Das Buch unterteilt sich in acht Kapiteln, die insgesamt 450 Seiten lang sind. Zu Beginn wird eine Einführung in JavaScript gegeben, in dem die gängigen Begriffe erläutert, die vorhandenen Laufzeitumgebungen genannt sowie ein Überblick über eine Auswahl von existierenden Entwicklungsumgebungen und Debugging-Tools geliefert werden. Das Kapitel schließt mit der ersten Einführung in die Sprache selbst ab. Das zweite Kapitel befasst sich mit den Funktionen und den funktionalen Aspekten von JavaScript. Es wird unter anderem eine Einführung in die funktionale Programmierung gegeben und die Unterschiede zur imperativen Programmierung aufgezeigt. Das dritte Kapitel umfasst das Thema der objektorientierten Programmierung. Dort wird erläutert, wie man objektorientiert in JavaScript programmiert, also wie man Klassen programmiert und wie man mit Prototypen, Vererbungen und Datenkapselungen arbeitet. Weiterhin wird die Emulation von diversen weiteren Prinzipien der objekt-orientierten Programmierung erklärt. ...

Recently, I got an invitation from bq for the launch of their first Android One in Spain and Portugal. The event took place in Madrid. A couple of journalists and bloggers from Germany (including me) and France were also invited for a tour through the offices and labs from bq in their headquarters in Madrid. There, they showed us some details about the development of their smartphones and how they test the hardware. While the presentation of the Android One Smartphone wasn’t that much interesting for me, the latter part of the event was even more interesting! ...

This is an interview with Ronnie Tucker, the creator and founder of „Full Circle Magazine“. You can find the translated German article in this Ikhaya Article. Hey Ronnie, thanks for joining this interview. First of all, the most of our readers might not know you, so can you say a few words about yourself, who you are? Ronnie: Thanks for having me. I’m the editor, and founder, of Full Circle magazine which I started (on a whim) about eight years ago. ...

Last weekend, on the 22nd and 23rd August, the FrOSCon took place in St. Augustin (next to Bonn) in Germany. It is one of the bigger Open Source Conferences and my first visit. Short summary: It was great! There were many talks, too bad there were many on talks on the same time, but luckily all talks were recorded. Personally I gave to talks: about Snappy Ubuntu Core and about Ubuntu Phone. You can watch both talks here and here, both talks are in German. Both talks had many attendees. (Here is a small photo!) ...