On 20 and 21 June 2017, the sixth edition of the European Ground System Architecture Workshop (ESAW) took place at ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany.
Our colleagues Martin Tykal and Yann Voumard attended the event, which brings together international companies and organisations around the topic of ground systems architecture for space missions. This year the focus was given to collaboration and common solutions.
A major update of the ESA Sentinel App, a product of the Solenix-led Consortium for mobile App development and fast software prototyping at ESRIN, has been released.
Knowledge is the annual conference organized by ServiceNow and its partners. This year Knowledge17 took place in Orlando (USA) in May. With more than 15.000 attendees, the conference provides insights into the evolution of this product and the opportunity to share the experience with experts and users from all over the world in a wide range of industries and applications.
ServiceNow provides a platform that automates business processes and has emerged in the last years as a very strong proposition in IT Service Management.
This month’s workshop introduced the core concepts of Git, a distributed version control system. Since its inception in 2005, Git has been used in the Linux Kernel to manage its large codebase. Today, Git is in use in an ever growing number of projects, as well as in support infrastructure, being one of the most popular VCS systems.
The workshop focussed on how to approach the way Git represents code changes and its recommended workflows. We also covered the main differences of Git with respect to Mercurial. More in detail, this is what we discussed:
We are happy to announce that Solenix has become a vendor in the CubeSatShop!
This online shop provides a platform for hardware and software vendors to offer their specialised products for CubeSats and NanoSats.
Thanks to this opportunity, we have now better visibility amongst the CubeSat community and we are able to address them directly from this renowned marketplace.
Two of our products are already available at the CubeSatShop:
We recently released a new version of our electronic logbook solution, Überlog 1.2.0. This release brings new features especially designed for our most demanding customers that rely on large installations shared by multiple teams and require high-availability in support to their operations.
Solenix has signed a contract as part of the European Space Agency's sponsorship to the OGC Testbed 13 initiative, an activity integrated in OGC's innovation program for 2017. This work, part of the Earth Observation Clouds (EOC), Thematic Exploitation Platforms (TEP) thread, will allow Solenix to contribute to the development of interoperable standards for the Geospatial, Earth Observation and Thematic Exploitation Platforms communities.
We are very happy to announce that as of April 2017, Solenix is a an associate member of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).
Based on Martin Fowlers' book "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code", this month’s engineering workshop focused on how to improve the design of existing code without changing its externally observable behaviour.
In this month’s Engineering Team workshop, we assessed our understanding of many concepts of Java. To that end, we took an individual assessment test inspired by the exams designed for the Oracle Certified Associate and Professional. Afterwards we discussed our answers in the group and revealed the correct solutions. The goal was to help the team identify strengths and weaknesses in their understanding of the core of the programming language that we use the most in our projects.