Lenz Grimmer's random thoughts

  • Video of my German talk “Flexibles Storage Management unter Linux mit OpenATTIC” now on YouTube

    Back in September, I attended the Kieler Linux Tage, to talk (in German) about how to manage storage on Linux using openATTIC. The presentation was recorded and the final result (in 4K) can now be viewed on YouTube. I hope you enjoy it!

  • Slides of my German talk “Flexibles Storage Management unter Linux mit OpenATTIC” now on SlideShare

    Last week, I attended the 13. Kieler Open Source und Linux Tage (KieLux) in Kiel, Germany, to give a presentation (in German) about “Flexibles Storage Management unter Linux mit OpenATTIC” . I had an audience of ~25-30 people, a video recording of the session (in 4K!) will be published shortly. I had a great time at…

  • Slides and Video of my talk “The Evolution of Storage on Linux” at FrOSCon 2015

    Last weekend, I gave a presentation titled “The Evolution of Storage on Linux” at this year’s FrOSCon 10 conference (Happy Anniversary!). In case you have missed it, you can find the slides and video recording below. Thanks to the FrOSCon team for having me, it’s always a pleasure to be there! Unfortunately I had some…

  • Creating a Contributor Agreement for Your Project

    Back in the MySQL days, there was a need to have a contributor agreement that made it clear under which terms code contributions to the MySQL code base could be accepted. This was a requirement due to the dual-licensing model of MySQL, under which the software was available both under the GPL and a proprietary…

  • Interview on the it-novum Business Open Source Blog

    My new employer performed a short interview with me about myself, my role in the openATTIC team and my thoughts on Open Source. Hope you enjoy it!

  • Moving on

    Today, I’ve started a new chapter in my career: I’ve left TeamDrive Systems after 1.5 years and joined it-novum in Fulda, where I will be responsible for their open source storage solution openATTIC as a Senior Product Manager in their infrastructure group.

  • Some useful issue queries for Atlassian JIRA

    I wanted to share a few queries I created for Atlassian JIRA, that help me to keep track of my activities (e.g. for a weekly report, or to keep track of issues I submitted to other developers) – maybe they are useful for you, too: “My issues reported last week”: reporter = currentUser() AND createdDate…

  • Pretty nifty a site dedicated to tutorials workflows…

    Pretty nifty, a site dedicated to tutorials, workflows and a showcase for high-quality photography using Free/Open Source Software: https://pixls.us/

  • Shared storage in the cloud

    While virtualization makes it pretty easy to spawn up new VMs quickly (e.g. for load balancing purposes), I always felt that providing concurrent file-based access to the same data to these VMs has been somewhat cumbersome, even though it’s still a requirement for many applications that need to share data between parts of the application,…

  • Learn something new every day to quickly create…

    Learn something new every day: to quickly create a screen shot of a web page in Mozilla Firefox, just press Shift + F2, which opens a small command line interface (including tab completion!). Now type “screenshot <filename>” and you’re done!