Agile Workers Software is launched
In the past few weeks, we have been busy setting up a new company – Agile Workers Software. Piles of paperwork processed, artwork designed, contracts negotiated and first projects executed, and finally...
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FSFE interviews Agile Workers co-founder Mirko Boehm
Chris Woolfrey of the FSFE conducted quite a fun interview with Mirko Boehm (me), with many rather challenging questions. What I liked especially about it was how little we talked about writing code,...
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Presentation on “Open Source, Free Software and Intellectual Property”
Today I presented about the complicated relationship between FLOSS and Intellectual Property at the Technical University of Berlin. The presentation was part of a lecture about Intellectual Property...
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What about the bird?
Searching for a company logo, I had a talk with my girlfriend who was working on her bachelor thesis about the intelligence of this funny bird (German link). She is researching whether it is able to...
View Article“Managing Trust” in mixed commercial and volunteer Open Source communities
After an extensive collection of feedback, “Managing Trust” was chosen as the keynote theme at Cebit this year. Most commentators relate that to building up trust in the commercial offerings of...
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Qt, QMake and Mac Os X SDKs after the Xcode 4.3 update
Mac Os X finally gained the capability to automatically manage and update Xcode installations with the Xcode 4.3 update. A couple of changes are introduced by the new version that caused problems...
View ArticleDer “Tag des Geistigen Eigentums” beim BDI – die Nachlese aus der Sicht der FSFE
Der 26. April ist von der WIPO im Jahr 2000 zum “Welttag des Geistigen Eigentums” ausgerufen worden, um das Bewusstsein dafür zu schärfen, wie Patente, Urheberrechte, Warenzeichen und Designs unser...
View ArticleQMake, Unit Tests and dynamic libraries under test
A repeated problem we run into when using QMake is that it focuses on being a build tool, and because of that does not implement some features for executing parts of the project (like tests). Others...
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Leadership, Strategy and Qt
Last week has seen the most devastating cuts into the funding of Open Source projects in the history of Qt (and KDE). Not that it was completely unexpected – on the contrary, in the light of the recent...
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Debugging Ruby 1.9.3 applications in Eclipse
Debugging Ruby code in Eclipse should be easy. After all, there is Aptana Studio which integrates the Ruby debugger, and RVM to manage the Ruby installations. Or so I thought. The problem is that I...
View ArticleAgile Workers congratulates Qt on version 5
After almost seven years of hard work, the Qt Project has announced that version 5 of their UI framework has been released. We at Agile Workers Software would like to congratulate the whole community...
View ArticleWelcome Endocode, the future of Agile Workers Software
Recently, we announced the incorporation of Endocode AG. With its team of five founders, Endocode offers software engineering services around Open Source technologies, as well as consultations with...
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