JUG Roma September 2011

This evening the Asset Data headquarters in Rome will host the classic JUG event but in a different sake: no talks, only direct experiences on technologies, chat between nerds & geeks and about the JUG Roma future.

The event is FREE. To register: http://www.jugevents.org/jugevents/event/41655.

Online SVN2Git presentation

"From SVN to Git" mini-course just finished, the presentation is online!

SVN 2 Git

On May 23rd 2011 from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm, in Asset Data office, there will be a mini-course about git and github for users that already know CVS or Subversion. The mini-course is totally FREE. Maximum 20 attendees.

To subscribe send an email to info -at- assetdata.it waiting the confirmation.

Free event at Asset Data headquarters: Distributed computing using Scala and GridGain

Asset Data will host the JUG event of October: "Distributed computing using Scala and GridGain". The event will be in English language. Below the abstract:

Session Description

The topic of this presentation is about using Scala programming language with GridGain framework to provide a simple and productive cloud computing platform.

Scala is a hybrid function and object-oriented language that is rapidly gaining traction in becoming the next Java in JVM-based language evolution. GridGain is one of the most rapidly growing cloud development platforms for JVM-based languages.

2/3 of the presentation will be devoted to live coding demonstration of writing basic MapReduce application in Scala using GridGain middleware. All coding during demonstration will be done live. Overview of grid and cloud computing concepts as well as notion of Native Cloud Applications will be discussed. Short intro into Scala language will also be provided.

What problems/challenges will an attendee learn to solve by attending your session?

Attendee will learn how to use Scala one of the most exciting JVM-based languages to quickly and efficiently build cloud-enabled applications. They will also learn on how to quickly build simple MapReduce application using GridGain framework.

What will attendees learn by attending your session?

Attendees will learn:

• How to build and run simple Scala MapReduce application
• How to start and configure GridGain
• How to cloud-enable the existing Scala code using GridGain to run it on the cloud

Who should attend your session?

• Java developers with a proficient level of Java expertise
• Scala developers of all levels
• Developers interested in practical aspects of cloud computing

What basics should attendees know before attending your session?

• Working knowledge of Java
• Basic understanding of distributed programming concepts
• No Scala or cloud computing experience is required
• About 1/3 of the presentation will be devoted to overview of grid and cloud computing as well as crash-course into Scala programming language. 2/3 of the presentation will be devoted to a live, hands-on coding demonstration of building simple MapReduce applications in Scala using GridGain.

Speaker: Nikita Ivanov

CEO, GridGain Systems

www.gridgain.com

JUG Roma September meeting live

Asset Data will host the next JUG Roma meeting. The appointment is for September 23rd 2010 6:00 pm in Asset Data o live here.

NoSQL Summer event in streaming

The first NoSQL Summer meeting could be followed live in streaming (in Italian language only).

The appointment is for tomorrow June 15th 2010 6:30 pm in Asset Data o live here.

On June 15th 2010 Asset Data will host the event "A NoSQL summer". The event will be organized inside the monthly appointment of the JUG Roma. NoSQL summer are local reading groups organized in all the world.

Official link to the event: http://nosqlsummer.org/city/rome

Asset Data presents Roma Framework in the university of Madrid

Yesterday, in Madrid, Asset Data has presented the Roma Meta Framework at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) during the Romulus Workshop.

Between the attendees many students and IT specialists interested on the fast developing of Web Applications following the DDD approach, the Meta Framework philosophy and obviously Roma. During the "hands-on" session all the attendees followed Luca Garulli step by step on the building of a simple social application.

Although Asset Data is a commercial company spends a lot of time in research and free dissemination of state-of-the-art Open Source technologies.

Saturday November 21st 2009: Romulus Hackaton at Asset Data's headquarter

Next saturday in the Asset Data's headquarter in Rome, Italy, there will be a Hackathon event focused on Romulus to boost up the implementation and fixing of all the pending tasks without other distractions. The groups are:

• Janiculum Client-Side (stylesheet, javascript, etc):
• Janiculum Server-Side (engine, REST, Renders, etc):
• Core & Misc
• Demo for the upcoming Workshop in December
• Cornelius

It will be a full day immersion in Romulus, without exceptions. The invitation is extended also to everybody like to participate for the first time as:

• code-writer,
• test-writer
• doc-writer

To signup: romaframework -at- assetdata.it.

We're preparing a new Workshop in Rome

Asset Data si preparing a FREE technical workshop about the Romulus technologies. The workshop will be in Rome on December 2009. The event aims to envolve the Italian developers to discover Romulus and innovative techniques to develop applications.

Agenda (in draft yet):

• 9.30 - 10.15: Presentation of the Romulus consortium [Talk in italian]
• 10.15 - 10.45: Introduction to Roma Meta Framework [Talk in italian]
• 10.45 - 11.00: Coffe break
• 11.00 - 13.00: Hands-on session: creation of a Twitter like application from ground using the DDD approach and Roma Meta Framework. In this session the Asset's guys between the folks will help the partecipants for installation problems and/or compilation troubles. This will be a practical session where all the partecipants can download and install all the necessary to begin with Roma Meta Framework and follow step-by-step the speaker [Talk in italian]
• 13.00 - 14.00: Lunch with sandwich
• 14.00 - 14.30: Create automatic testing for the application [Talk in english by Universidad Politecnica de Madrid]
• 14.30 - 15.00: Mashup of the Social Network's data with Google Maps, Flickr and Twitter [Talk in english by GESFOR company]
• 15.00 - 15.30: Exporting data in Semantic format (Semantic Web). Let data accessible to a semantic search engine making queries like: "give me all the people living in Rome with at least 3 friends living outside his city" [Talk in english by National University of Ireland Galway - Digital Enterprise Research Institute]
• 15.30 - 16.00: Exporting of services and usage inside an ESB (Atom and Web Services) [Talk in italian by Imola]
• 16.00 - 16.30: Quick look to the other technologies integrated in Roma [Talk in italian]
• 16.30 - 16.45: Conclusions [Talk in italian]
  

If you want to register to the event send an email to: info [at] assetdata.it.

Romulus meeting in Rome

On January 22nd and 23rd 2009 the Romulus consortium came to Rome to get the point about the first year of research and to consolidate the planned activities for the current year. A lot of news since the last meeting in Galway, Ireland.

Asset Data presented the news about Roma Meta Framework version 1.1.1 released just few hours before the event.

Moreover Asset Data has presented for the first time the Cornelius Project Management Open Source software. This project was born in Asset Data about 6 months ago and now it's the management tool of the entire Asset Management group.

Asset Data gets into the Romulus consortium

Asset Data gets into the Romulus consortium. Romulus is a project partially financed by European Commission. Its main goal is about research on novel methods for increasing productivity and reliability of web software development, in particularly, focused on Java web development.

Romulus Project is based on two Open Source products:

• Roma Meta Framework, a framework for rapid development following the DDD approach and mantaining the business model aseptic by the technology
• Liferay Portal Server leader of Java Portal Server of Enterprise sizes.

Below all the consortium's participants:

• Asset Data, as the company with the biggest skill in Roma Meta Framework and where most of the committers are working (Italy)
• Liferay company (Germany)
• Gesfor group (Spain)
  
• Imola Group company (Italy)
• DERI University (Ireland)
• Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)
• National Institute for research and development in informatics (Romania)

To know more: http://www.ict-romulus.org

First AssetData Go-Kart contest

On Friday June 15th 2007 there will be the first AssetData Go-Kart contest, where all employees and consultants of Asset Data and Asset Management group will challenge on the road.

We think a little bit of sane competition on the road would improve also the reflexes on writing down code :-)