Open Source Journal
The latest issue of the Open Source Journal is now available! Click on the image below to download your free version of Open Source Journal Issue 2 (3rd Edition) pdf.
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Vision
The Open Source Journal was founded as a central published resource where articles, knowledge sharing, and interesting news from the world of open source technology would be freely available to the community.
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Submitted articles
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OSC User Group
The Open Source Central User Group (OSC UG) is an environment where anybody with an interest in all things open source can meet up, mingle, share ideas and collaborate.
The group ranges from beginners to experts, and there's no requirement to be a guru to be involved.
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Agile promises to solve all problems in project delivery: the customers will be happy, the quality will rise, the project teams work flawlessly. When implemented properly and when taken seriously, agile can bring far-reaching changes to entire organisations. The keynote will set the tone for the entire conference: agile, when done properly and when adopted in the entire organisation, is the best possible way to deliver successful projects in an ever-changing world.
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Archived
Presentation documentation and video of all events will be archived in this section.
Benefits
The OSC User Group offers technical talks on various open source topics. The talks cover a wide range of technologies and are given by experts in their given fields.
Also, as members of the Open Source Central User Group you may benefit from discounted tickets to events such as the Skills Matters eXchange's and QCon etc.
Contact us
If you have anything you want to ask or discuss, e-mail the head of the Open Source Central User Group, e-mail the head of the Open Source Central User Group Jan Machacek.
Open Source Central
Blogs
Publishing SBT projects to Nexus
Specs2 Spring is available on Sonatype OSS and Maven Central! But how did we get there and what should you do to get the hosting, synchronisation to Maven Central and how do you automate the deploymen...
Cardinality and Indexes Explained
What is cardinality with respect to an indexed column? Well cardinality is just a measure of how unique the information is in a column. For most index types, unique values are good and repeated valu...
False Positives in Database Integration Tests
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Splitting user stories: the hamburger method
Problems: Story is too big to split and estimate; business users don’t accept any breakdown proposed by the delivery team; team is inexperienced and thinks about technical splitting only;new pro...
Spring Integration: Whats going on in there? Part 1 Esper wire tap
Earlier this week Russ Miles announced the release of the OpenCredo Esper extension project (read it here). This project is something we created primarily to make using Esper, the open source Comple...
Videos
WELCOME TO CIVICON STATE OF CIVICRM: DOMINIK LUKES: 22/08/11
CiViCRM: CiViCRM DEVELOPER TRAINING: JQUERY & CiviCRM: KURUND JALMI: 31/08/2011
CIVICRM - User and admin training - Campaign - 01/09/2011
CiViCRM: CiViCRM DEVELOPER TRAINING: CiViCRM EXTENSION: MICHAL MACH: 31/08/2011
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