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Day of Docker keynote

It was an honour and a pleasure to open the Day of Docker conference in Oslo with a keynote telling the story of cyber-dojo (so far).

Oslo Day of Docker Opening Keynote from Jon Jagger

greater capacity: 64 avatars and docker-engine

cyber-dojo now supports a docker-engine runner and http://cyber-dojo.org is using it to run a small cluster of Google-compute nodes behind the server. In line with this extra capacity each cyber-dojo can now have 64 avatars. A big thank you to everyone who helped with this work, particularly Byran Wills Heath from Bluefruit Software who refactored the containers, Mike Long for helping with the architecture design, and Dymtro Mindra and Nadya Sivers for providing all the new avatar images.

new avatar images

A big thank you to the talented Nadya Sivers from Ukraine who drew a new set of cyber-dojo avatar images. Watch out for even more avatars once cyber-dojo has been refactored to support scaling.

cyber-dojo now supports vhdl

A big thank you to Pablo Mansanet from the excellent Bluefruit software in Cornwall, UK, who just added VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) to cyber-dojo :-)

refactoring katas

A very handy cyber-dojo feature is setting up dojos with custom starting positions. This is perfect for setting up refactoring katas. The idea is that instead of starting from the minimal start code and working towards a solution, you start from a finished (but poor) solution and practice refactoring instead.

Here are some for Yahtzee

And here are some for Tennis made by Emily Bache.

new Javascript test frameworks

Many thanks to Klaas Reineke for updating Javascript / jasmine and for adding Javascript / qunit+sinon :-)

the cyber-dojo Foundation

The cyber-dojo Foundation was incorporated as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) on the 7th August 2015.
It's charity number is SC045890. It's stated charitable objective is

To advance the education of the public in general on the subject of software development.

It's registered trustees are:

Jon Jagger. Director of Software at Kosli based in England.
Mike Long. Co-founder and CEO at Kosli based in Norway.
Olve Maudal. Magician at Equinor based in Norway.
Seb Rose. Associate at Cucumber.io based in Scotland.

The cyber-dojo Foundation issues licences for commercial use of the public cyber-dojo server at https://cyber-dojo.org.
If you need a licence please email license@cyber-dojo.org.