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On GitHub, one of our employees published an open-source tool for reorganisation of repositories from the version control system Subversion. The tool is based on the experiences we gained during a big subversion migration at one of our clients.

For the fourth time, TNG organised the Big Techday. About 365 visitors experienced a day full of technically interesting talks from industry and research, amongst others about the Stuxnet worm and about aircraft avatars.

A group of TNG colleagues gave a lecture course at Hochschule Augsburg on agile software development. Talks and tutorials on topics such as agile testing, continuous integration and deployment, agile requirements engineering, and agile process models were given by domain experts.

On the occasion of a visit of a member of the Jenkins Interim Governance Board, TNG organised a CI gathering followed by a hackathon. The 20 guests heard talks by Jenkins committers, amongst others the developer of the Static Analysis Plugins. They then worked together on new plugins. In the end the foundations for two new plugins were developed, which now have to get the final polishing.

We supported the community by providing conference rooms for certain events. So regularly the GI Practice Group Requirements took place at our office and recently the JavaScript User Group as well as the Scrumtisch.

Ten years ago, on January 10th, 2001, TNG was registered at the Commercial Registry in Munich, and has been growing each year ever since. At this point we'd like to cordially thank all our employees and customers, without whom this success story would have never happened.

This year we produced a team calendar besides our wall calendar. This team calendar eases the planning especially for agile teams. If you want to give it a try, write a short e-mail to info(at)tngtech.com and we gladly send it to you while supplies last.

Cooperating with Scala Solutions we will hold a Scala training in our office on February 23rd and 24th, 2011. We are happy that on the second day of the training the Scala inventor, Martin Odersky, will co-chair the training personally. On the evening of February 24th, 2011, there will be a presentation on the future of Scala. Everyone who wants to participate, can register free of charge at info(at)tngtech.com.

For a customer we built a reporting database, since the productive database was not suitable for reporting tasks. We allowed for easy handling of the new data for our customer as well as good extensibility in the case, that later a more complex data warehouse should be based on the reporting database.

One of our experts gave a talk at the Agile Testing Days on test driven migration of complex systems. We reported on a successfully conducted data migration project, in which we were able to control the arising risks by a combination of approaches from test driven development with big bang release scenarios.