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From October 6th-10th the Experimental Software Engineering International Week (ESEIW) took place in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The ESEIW was organized in four joint events:16th Annual Meeting of International Software Engineering Research Network ISERN, Oct 6th-7th6th International Advanced School of Empirical Software Engineering. IASESE, Oct 8th3rd International Doctoral Symposium on Empirical

The combination of a process engine and an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is one interesting aspect of modern service oriented architectures (SOA). Both, an ESB and process engines provide similar concepts and software architects often have problems to find the right solution. Therefor I and Bernd Rücker wrote an article in the German Java Magazin about it. To have a practical showcase the

Robert Thullner recently finished his excellent master-thesis with the title "Implementing Enterprise Integration Patterns using Open Source Frameworks". In his thesis he is refering to the EI Patterns described by Hohpe and Woolfe. Robert analyses a set of leading OS frameworks in this domain (Mule, Apache ActiveMQ, Service Mix and Camel) for how they implement patterns and how they support

Today, on Monday 7, we invite to an event at the Austrian Computer Society with the topic "Sustainability and IT", the rest of this posting is in German, so is the event:Ich möchte alle Mitglieder des Open Source Arbeitskreises der OCG sowie alle anderen Interessenten und Spätentschlossene (!) zu folgender Veranstaltung Einladen:Heute, am Montag den 7. April (!) 2008, 16:30Zemanek Saal der

I know, this comes on short-notice, however I myself realized this too late. Next week, to be precise from March 12 to 14 2008 the JSFDays conference will take place in Vienna. There are a set of very interesting speakers like Jürgen Höller speaking about the Springframework and the relation to JSF, there is Martin Marinschek from Irian and myFaces and many others. Keynote speaker is Edward J.

Let me wish you a happy new year and welcome this year with a little announcement:On 13+14th March there will be an Object Database Conference in Berlin.Some facts, before I explain why this is important for Software-Engineering and not only for the Database / Persistence area.A) The conference is split into a Science Day (13th March / Thursday) and an Application Day (14th March / Friday). There

This blog article announces an event in Vienna:Für alle, die die wirklich interessante Präsentation von OLPC Austria an der TU verpasst haben, freue ich mich folgende Veranstaltung im Namen von Mag. Stockinger und der OCG ankündigen zu dürfen. OLCP ist nicht nur ein wichtiges Projekt für Entwicklungsländer, es bietet auch für Programmierer eine Herausforderung, die es wert ist anzunehmen! Für

Last week Aaron Kaplan and Christoph Derndorfer from OLPC Austria presented the OLPC (one laptop per child project) at Vienna University of Technology. The presentation was vivid, also because several laptops were presented and the interaction was demonstrated (including a drop from approx one meter height).Presented topics included the idea of the project but also several details to technical

On monday Oct. 8, OLPC Austria presents the one laptop per child project (initiated by MIT media lab). The laptop is a fascinating piece of technology (not "just" a cheap laptop as some might assume) and the projects is proceeding, but there is still a lack on special software developed for that device.This goal of this presentation is on the one hand to introduce the project, show some actual

From June 4-6 the 1st Software and Systems Essentials Conference 2007 took place in Munich, Germany. An important goal of the conference is bringing together people from business, industry, and academia who are working in software engineering and information technology with its various aspects. Discussions and exchange of experiences between users in public and industrial contexts and vendors of

Today I had the pleasure to record the interview with Werner Vogels, the CTO from Amazon.com, who held the keynote speach of the Very Large Databases Conference currently held in Vienna.The interviewer is Dr. Ross King from Vienna University and the interview is part of our "Woche der Informatik" podcast. This podcast is actually in German, however for the English speaking audience the VLDB

From August 28-31 the 33rd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) 2007 took place in Lübeck, Germany. An important goal of the conference is bringing together people from business, industry, research, and academia who are working in software engineering and information technology with its various aspects.The different topics ware represented in three main

From August 5 to 7 the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) 2008 took place in Croatia, Dubrovnik. An important feature of the conference, besides presentation and discussion of academic papers, were "state of the art" presentations on research topics that are particularly relevant for industry and Best Software Engineering Practices (Slides are online). In this Blog article I review

From September 19 to September 28 the "Informatics-Week" takes places in Austria. This series of events is organised by the Austrian Computer Society. In this week a series of high-profile IT conferences are held in Austria, most prominent and from the Software Engineering point of view maybe the most important one is the Very Large Databases (VLDB) conference.The informatics week additionally

At the WebIST conference this year, we presented a paper dealing with instant collaboration and new patterns of team cooperation. This topic is not directly related to software engineering, however, my observation is, that best-practices that emerged within the software development context, particularly in highly-distributed open source projects "diffuse" into other areas. In this entry I write

For the Austrian Open Source Contest (as presented in this recent post) we initiated a new Blog. This Blog is dedicated to publish project ideas we received so far. Everyone can contribute here sharing new ideas or discussing the already available ones. Particularly potential participates are encouraged to search for interesting topics, discuss them!When the discussion process is finished, a jury

This Posting announces an Open Source Software Contest and is directed to developers, artists and companies in Austria, hence the language is German. We will however report from various activities and the outcome also in english.Die Österreichische Computergesellschaft OCG veranstaltet gemeinsam mit dem Verband österreichischer Software Industrie VÖSI sowie der Wirtschaftskammer Österreich

Two weeks ago I had two talks at the 8th Asian Open Source Software Symposium. It was quite interesting for me to watch this conference, as it showed a significant trend for Asian countries (not only Indonesia) to try to follow a strong Open Source policy. Interesting was the statement of a representative of a big American GIS company with strong Microsoft background: they ran into significant

Today we had the last event of the series "Software Engineering for everyday business" in coopertion with the chamber of commerce (Vienna) and the Austrian computer society OCG:Dietmar Winkler introduced the day defining the term quality and giving some introduction about quality factors and quality management, quantification of quality and measurement issues. He continued describing quality

On thursday Jan, 18 2007 the final event of the lecture series "Software Engineering for Everyday Business" in cooperation with the chamber of commerce Vienna and the Austrian computer society takes place at Museumsquartier, Architekturzentrum.In this final installment Dietmar Winkler, Denis Frast (and I) will discuss methods of quality assurance in software projects. Topics will be (among others