This week I am visiting Gotocon Berlin 2015. Today I took part in a crazy workshop by Jez Humble and by crazy I mean crazy-good. We were discussing how difficult it actually is to implement sufficiently good Agile practices in todays enterprises. Jez made multiple reports on what he calls Water-Scrum-Fall. But the workshop was not at all problem-centered. Jez outlined useful approaches on how to improve the situation and gave us many useful references on companies who successfully made the transition.

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I am currently preparing for the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Certification. I enrolled in a two part course at Udemy:

  • https://www.udemy.com/draft/19966/learn/#/
  • https://www.udemy.com/linuxacademy2/learn/#/

In order to follow the course and to study the exercises it is required to use different Linux distributions. I use Vagrant at work so I thought "hey, why not use it to run different Linux distributions on my laptop". The remainder of the article describes how I setup Vagrant and used it to run virtual machines of CentOS and Debian distributions on my local machine.

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Last weekend I went to DotGO conference. Go was publicly released by Google on 10th of November 2009. So happy 6 Birthday to all who worked on the success of this fine programming language! It was great beeing part and celebrating the 6th aniversary of the Go Community.

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