James Duncan: Xeni’s diagnosis
Xeni Jardin writes about what started as a show of solidarity with two friends and ended with a diagnosis of breast cancer. Oh my. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
View ArticleJames Duncan: An iPhone photo of the lunar eclipse via spotting scope
Amazing what you can do with an iPhone and a spotting scope. Of course, the spotting scope helps a lot. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
View ArticleJean-Baptiste Onofré: Do you know the Apache Karaf Maven plugins ?
Apache Karaf is not only an OSGi container, it also provides a set of Maven plugins for tooling. In the next Apache Karaf 2.2.5 release, you will find two Maven plugins: cmdhelp-maven-plugin generates...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Privacy, security, and data integrity in "The Cloud"
The following are thoughts I wrote up in anticipation of Thursday's Ask Slashdot, where I was discussing "The Cloud" with the Slashdot community.The Question: "With so much personal data being kept on...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
Today is Jamhuri Day - Republic Day - in Kenya, the day when we celebrate Kenya's establishment as a republic in 1964.Yesterday I was reading the Wikipedia article about it, and it stated that the day...
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Sergey Beryozkin: Associating user login names with OAuth Access tokens
The classical OAuth flow involves the authorized 3rd-party client magically accessing the end user's resources without even specifying a user name or id, for example:GET /user/calendarHow can the...
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Jeremy Quinn: Light Rail [Flickr]
sharkbait posted a photo: Train leaving Cutty Sark, the Docklands Light Railway Station at Greenwich. Eventually, the man on the frick'in tannoy told me to stop taking photos.
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Jeremy Quinn: Danger of Death [Flickr]
sharkbait posted a photo: Staring into the open maw that is the Docklands Light Railway at Cutty Sark Station
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Ian Boston: Solr Search Bundle 1.3 Released
he Solr Search v1.3 bundle developed for Nakamura has been released. This is not to be confused with Apache Solr 4. The bundle wraps a snapshot version of Apache Solr 4 at revision 1162474 and exposes...
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Ian Boston: OSGi and SPI
OSGi provides a nice simple model to build components in and the classloader policies enable reasonably sophisticated isolation between packages and versions that make it possible to consider multiple...
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Edward J. Yoon: SSSP (Single Source Shortest Path) problem with Apache Hama
From yesterday I'm testing Apache Hama SSSP (Single Source Shortest Path) example with random graph of ~ 100 million vertices and ~ 1 billion edges as a input on my small cluster. More specifically:...
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Hiram Chirino: STOMP Messaging Benchmarks: ActiveMQ vs Apollo vs HornetQ vs...
I’ve recently run STOMP benchmarks against the lastest releases of the 4 most feature packed STOMP servers: Apache ActiveMQ 5.5.1 Apache ActiveMQ Apollo 1.0 Beta 6 (an ActiveMQ Subproject) HornetQ...
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Jeroen Reijn: Make your date range queries in Jackrabbit go faster!
As you might know Hippo CMS uses Apache Jackrabbit as the core for it's content repository. One of Jackrabbits features is 'search' and the execution of most queries are delegated to Apache Lucene. If...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Learning Machine Learning with Apache Mahout
Once in a while I get questions like Where to start learning more on machine learning. Other than the official sources I think there is quite good coverage also in the Mahout community: Since it was...
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Ian Boston: SparseMap Content version 1.4 released.
Sparse Map version 1.4 has been tagged (org.sakaiproject.nakamura.core-1.4) and released. Downloads of the source tree in Zip and TarGZ form are available from GitHub. In this release 6 issues were...
View ArticleBrian McCallister: Library Versioning
Libraries should be versioned and packaged such that they are easy to use over time, and in combination. The best way I have found to do this is to abide by three rules: Use APR versioning Re-namespace...
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Christian Grobmeier: New Dart Editor Version 2380
The Google Dart team has announced a new version of the Dart Editor. You can get it here. Here are the changes: Initial VM launch support… toolbar button and .options file Generate JS only for browser...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Glenn Fleishman on the new fonts in iBooks
Apple swapped out several of the fonts in iBooks, and for the better in my opinion. Glenn Fleishman puts on his font-geek hat and discourses about the changes on Boing Boing. Linked by James Duncan...
View ArticleJames Duncan: TED announces TED Live
Not everyone can make it to TED, but for the last few years, a growing number of people have been attending TED virtually as TED Associates. TED has now formalized this into a new program called TED...
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Piergiorgio Lucidi: Alfresco Connector for Apache ManifoldCF
In the next release of Apache ManifoldCF will be also released my latest contribution to the project: the Alfresco Repository Connector. This new connector will be provided in the default package of...
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