We did it. We did the first Devoxx4Kids Poland. For the last half year we worked very hard to prepare and organise this event. 

I would like to introduce co-organisers of this conference, Tomek Kucharski, Dariusz Kaczyński, Ewa Waliczek. Big thanks to them. I would like to thank Konrad Hoszowski and Eliza Kruczkowska for help. Also this event could not be possible without school and computer administrators from schools. Thank you! Big thanks have to go to Robomaniacs and Robocamp for preparing workshops. And of course this event could not be possible without our sponsors. 

We also receive help from 20 volunteers and two professional photographers. Thank you!

We did eight parallel tracks for kids from 6 to 14 years old. They were four age groups. Each group have different T-shirt colour.  There was a huge variety of topics. There were workshops related to hardware, software and mixed. We used Lego, Arduino and also games like minecraft. Visit devoxx4kids.pl for more informations.

Do you want to organise this kind of event in your city? Email me, I

would like to help you to start this kind of event in your city. Do you want to help in next year edition and join steering committee ? Email me.

This year 33rd Degree conference is over. I’m glad I could help Grzesiek in the organization as a volunteer. It was a good experience and great opportunity to meet new people. 

For me the biggest advantage of this conference are talks. There were many rock star speakers with cutting edge topics. I would like especialy say thank you to Tomek Nurkiewicz. His talk was about Saiku. 

Tomek charisma, teaching skills, good preparation and selection of material is at the highest possible level. Thus that, after one hour I felt like an expert of Saiku and OLAP. 

Thank you and see you next year.

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Two days after the ending of GeeCON, I’ve managed to read „Building Microservices” by Sam Newman Book. It is in Early Release stage, so half of the chapters were missing.

The first chapter about concept of microservices is very good. It determines the direction of thinking. It relates to SOA, OSGI, and many know to me aspects and problems. If you do not know what microservices are, read only this chappter.

The rest completed chapters were good. I had a feeling that those chapters were written not only for architects, but for developers in the first place. There were funny sentences like „Big Scary CRM”. I was also enjoyed because there were many real life system described.

To summarize. I am looking forward for the finished book, to read it again. Also I would like to try to implements some solutions in microservices way :)

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