Archive for July, 2009

We need your support – vote for us @OpenSQLCamp 2009

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

We have proposed a talk at FrosCon/OpenSQL Camp, but we need your votes for our proposal, which you can see here. As there are 27 talks but only 12 slots, we need your support to get a chance and spread our message. Voting is done via twitter or a google group. Full instructions for the voting can be found here. Quick vote works like this:

Our session-ID is 456. To vote, use twitter and send a message to @opensqlcamp:

@opensqlcamp 456 +1

with an optional message (in parentheses):

@opensqlcamp 456 +1 (give the new kid some room to talk)

Thank you, and see you at OpenSQLCamp 2009!

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Artwork for OSCON is ready

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Thanks to the guys at FORMER03, our media agency, we are happy to present the artwork for our OSCON 2009 booth 424.


blackray_artwork

We are looking forward to seeing you there. Don’t forget to ask for your free BlackRay T-Shirt (while supplies last).

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SoftMethod Forge open for Business….

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

After many months of deliberation, choosing TRAC plugins, subversion authentication mechanisms, and other stuff, we have come to a conclusion!

First of all, we no longer use TRAC. Sorry to say this to the guys at Edgewall – TRAC does kick ass. But, it does SUCK at maintaining multiple projects. We have evaluated many plugins. They are all crap. Sorry, no offence to the guys making them. TRAC simply is NOT designed for multiple projects

Enter the stage: Redmine!

So it is writtten in Ruby, on rails. As a kid, rails and railways ruled my daily schedule. What about now? Ruby on Rails kicks ass – and not my ass I must add! Thx @rubyonrails! You guys are awesome.

Ok, so we do not know the language it is made with. Actually similar to TRAC – remember anyone excited to work themselves into Clearsilver, Genshi and NEON? Nope. Nope. Nope!

Learning Ruby does work out to be fun. It ain’t quite as cool as Java. But, for a dynamically typed language, it is quite structured, and after doing the tutorials 1-4 I do kick ass as a Ruby Ninja (hey, please DO protect me in combat!)

Now that the forge is up, be agile, be quick, be nimble and tell me anything that did not work…..

Keep busy! Felix

PS: See you at https://forge.softmethod.de

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Meet us at OSCSON 2009

Monday, July 6th, 2009

BlackRay (represented by SoftMethod) will be exhibiting at OSCON 2009. Thomas, Frank and Felix will be in the exhibit hall all days, and are happy to answer all questions related to how it works, what it can do for you, or how you can contribute. We will have a large scale live system at the show floor, and there will be plenty of stuff for you.

Mention that you saw this on the BlackRay homepage and receive a cool free T-Shirt (while supplies last)

Come by Booth 424 and get in touch with the developers and other people behind BlackRay, learn about the technology and how it will make your job easier, perform better in complex search problems and make your search eco-friendly.

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