http://michael.podvinec.ch Michael Podvinec's blog Sun, 05 Jun 2011 08:09:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The dualserver ReadyNAS addon is a packaged version of the dualserver project by Achal Dhir (released under the GPL2 license). Over the past few days, I've built this addon as an exercise, and because I am actually using this server. I'm making the addon freely available here, but without any ... http://michael.podvinec.ch/uncategorized/dual-dnsdhcp-server-addon-for-netgear-readynas Here's what I told the audience at XP Day London 2009 about how we use Scrum in Science, courtesy of transcribr.com and wordle.net: Interesting, isn't it? By grouping the most prevalent words from the presentation, we get "Interesting people like scrum". But you knew that already, I'm almost certain. http://michael.podvinec.ch/uncategorized/wordled-my-talk-at-xp-day-london Monday, our office's air conditioning broke down, just in time for the summer heat wave. But nothing fazes our system administrators: Recycling packaging, used computer and rack fans has never been more attractive... PS: I am not sure their office is much cooler than ours. But for sure, it is louder now. http://michael.podvinec.ch/uncategorized/homebrew-ac The Swiss Airlines Miles & More loyalty program offers several credit card bundles through a special website. The promise is that these cards allow you to collect frequent flyer miles and provide interesting bonuses to you. I got intrigued and thought: Let's investigate a bit. My interest was piqued as these ... http://michael.podvinec.ch/words/miles-and-more-credit-cards-how-to-benefit I'm keeping this writeup definitely shorter than my  writeup of XP Days Benelux. In Karlsruhe, we presented the Science Scrum talk again, that Joseph and I had submitted together. Slides from the talk are here and a podcast was recorded and should become available on the organizer's site soon. It definitely ... http://michael.podvinec.ch/science_scrum/xp-days-germany This year, I attended XP Days Benelux for the first time, and I want to share some of the insights and impressions I got from this event. To tell the truth, I have not been at any XP Days-Events before, and my mind was blown away. This was not what ... http://michael.podvinec.ch/tech/a-personal-look-back-on-xp-days-benelux-2009 Ich werde an den XP Days Germany zusammen mit Joseph Pelrine (@josephpelrine) eine 30'-Version unseres Erfahrungsberichts mit Scrum im Management einer Uni-Forschungsgruppe präsentieren. Der Vortrag ist auf Deutsch (was mir nicht schwerfallen sollte, aber dennoch ungewohnt ist), im Gegensatz zu der Session, die wir ein paar Tage vorher an den ... http://michael.podvinec.ch/deutschsprachig/speaker-xp-days-germany In this article, we take a look at the roles of management and product ownership in university research. There was recently not so long ago a discussion at InfoQ, triggered by an opinion piece by Amr Elssamadisy. Michael ... http://michael.podvinec.ch/words/science-scrum-can-i-speak-to-the-manager-please I will be attending XP Days Benelux this year. Joseph Pelrine and I have proposed a session called "Science Scrum: Managing a Research Group the Agile Way", which will be opening the conference proper right after the plenary. We'll speak about some of the things I have covered (and have ... http://michael.podvinec.ch/science_scrum/confirmed-speaker-at-xp-days-benelux A quick, simple and tasty recipe (if you like liver). Based on an article in La Cucina Italiana. For 2 Persons: 250 onion, chopped sideways into fine strips 250 veal liver, cut into small pieces 30g butter Extravirgin olive oil 2 sage leaves handful of parsley, finely chopped 1 glass dry white wine salt, pepper Preparation: On medium heat, melt 30g ... http://michael.podvinec.ch/food/fegato-di-vitello-alla-veneziana-veal-liver-venetian-style