[Review] Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

This is not a book about motorcycle maintenance. This is not only a book about the zen. This is not only a novel. This is mostly a book about philosophy. But philosophy is served in nice form. 

This book took me to journey though a USA. I was feeling that I was an passenger of this journey. I was feeling that I was traveling with author that talks to me about philosophy. 

During this journey, the idea of quality and value was assembled and dissembled many times, like motorcycle parts. It was mostly presented in straightforward form and readable manner. It has a good points to think about it. But, some parts were misleading for me.

I read this book because I need a change from normal technical book. My score for that book is 4 of 5 points. 

[Event] Devoxx4Kids Polska

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.

[Event] A note from 33rd Degree

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.