Heiko W. Rupp

1077 points

Stuttgart, Germany

Heiko is a long time open source committer. He currently works for Red Hat on the topic of monitoring and management of server and softwares systems. Heiko has received a master in Computer Science from University of Karlsruhe and has written two books on JBoss AS and Enterprise Java Beans.

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Authored Content

A tinkerer's tool for PCB design and printing

A while ago, I created a small extension board for the Raspberry Pi to do some hardware hacking. The first iteration was on a bread board with some wiring to connect to the Pi…

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Why work in the open?

What prevents you from working in the open? I work for an open source company on an open source project and still I encounter on a daily basis that people who are working on…

The geocaching experience is catching

Q: What do geeks do when they want to spend time away from their keyboards? A: They take their smart phone or GPS receiver and go geocaching. What does the above have to do…

With greater permissions, comes greater responsibility

I came to work with open source after an experience in college. We used a system called Usenet ,a world wide distributed discussion forum. At the university, there wasn't an…

10 ways to contribute to an open source project without writing code

What are the ways we can give to an open source community without contributing code? A recent comment to an Opensource.com article a career in open source went something like…

Creating an eBook using the AsciiDoc markup language

For manuals and guides, Wikis are an excellent way of organizing content. Yet, they often don't work as well for larger articles or books because individual content is spread…

Authored Comments

pilhuhn

1 Jun 2018

5 open source tools for building a map app in a snap

Great article and very well presented. Makes me want to drop my work and directly start exploring the GIS stuff :-)

pilhuhn

28 May 2018

How Java EE found new life as Jakarta EE

I think the interesting part here ist that Oracle has given up the (for the lack of a better word) "dictatorship" and is in JakartaEE one contributor / member among others.
And so far this is working out great.