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Bryan Pendleton: Anti Semi Joins
I happened across an unfamiliar term today, "anti semi join".I encountered it in this nice little writeup from the MS SQL support team.So, of course, I went hunting for more information about semi...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-09-02
Twitter’s misuse of OAuth : Twitter seem to be attempting to control misbehaving clients, by using the “consumer key” pair as a secret key for app developers. This is proving impossible for FOSS...
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Glen Mazza: Book Review: Camel In Action (Manning)
The Camel documentation has always been limited in that it reads much like a dictionary or a reference manual, each component or data format, for example, explained in its own page but with little...
View ArticleJ Aaron Farr: MacBook Hacking (Part 14: Git, Ruby, and Haskell)
Our installation tour is quickly coming to the end. Today with clean up by talking about three final command-line tools. Git Today’s preferred version control system. Made it easy on myself: just...
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Bryan Pendleton: This is what happens when you play chess!
The video proves it!(I love the way he prowls around furiously, scowls, and buries his head in his hands constantly at the board; classic Garry imitation!)
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Ted Husted
Is your site ready for the next wave of mobile surfers?A growing twist in web application requirements is a request for compatibility with mobile phones, especially iPhones. Of course, Apple's latest...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Part 2: Tracking tasks, or - Where the hack did my time go to...
After summarising some strategies for not loosing track of tasks, meetings and conferences in the last post, this one is going to focus on the retrospect on achievements. If at some point in time you...
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Bryan Pendleton: It's not magic, it's physics!
Step 1: Shave headStep 2: Run really fast.Step 3: Kick it really hard, in just the right way.Result: Bend it like Roberto Carlos!It's all a matter of the tradeoff between aerodynamics and gravity:one...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Developers and documentation
There's a long-standing contention that open software developers aren't good at producing user documentation. (Actually, the contention is more along the lines of 'they suck at it.') I probably fall...
View ArticleUpayavira: p p p p p yeah!!!
Today, my son dropped something on my keyboard. Off popped the 'p' key. The machine is out of warranty, so my only option is to knuckle down and fix it. After some period of fiddling, I'd worked half...
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Nick Kew: Vouchers
I have some vouchers for £5 off shopping at the new Tescos in Callington. Went today to see it (and spent one of them), leaving three more which I’m unlikely to use. Free to a good home if any local...
View ArticleChristian Grobmeier: You cannot see your reflection in running water
John Cleese shows his thoughts on creativity in a short video, as the excellent blog Presentation Zen showed me. He speaks out, what I think. You need silence and some place were your work isn’t...
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Hiranya Jayathilaka: From Quadricycle to the Prius
I went to see the California Automobile Museum a few days back. It's located in Sacramento and displays a wide range of classic cars and a few modern cars. If you are an automobile fanatic, this is the...
View ArticleGlen Mazza: Messaging Links (5 September 2010)
Messaging-related links of interest this week: Apache Camel: two-part Webinar Series - one-hour presentations on Sept. 8th and 16th by Camel in Action authors Claus Ibsen and Jonathan Anstey What's New...
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Claus Ibsen: Camel 2.5 - Encrypting passwords for endpoint configurations
Dejan Bosanac co-author of ActiveMQ in Action, just recently added a new feature to Apache ActiveMQ to easily use encrypted passwords in the configuration files. We have had such a feature on the radar...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Murals
My Beloved has painted several murals around the house, and this has somewhat raised the bar when it comes to painting the kids' rooms.A while back I sketched up a few ideas for Z's room, and I finally...
View ArticlePaul Querna: Limiting Concurrency in Node.js
Lets say you are writing your new awesome web application in Node.js, because you know, Node.js is the new hotness and awesome. Lets also say, your new Node.js web application does non-trivial things,...
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Claus Ibsen: First review of Camel in Action
Glen Mazza posted a review of the Camel in Action book on his blog, september, 2nd 2010. The material is the latest MEAP edition of the book (the 8th update). Nevertheless the material contains all 14...
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Adrian Sutton: A Big Forking Problem
Back when git and GitHub were relatively new to the mainstream, there was a big discussion about how it promoted forking and was potentially bad for community building. Since then GitHub has well and...
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Adrian Sutton: Why P Tags are Your Friends
A few days ago I talked about the Email and P Myth, but didn’t explain why it’s so frustrating for editor developers that people keep wanting to use BR tags instead of P tags. It’s not actually...
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