James Duncan: Its Name is Cinch
Greg and I have been working extra super hard since the beginning of November to get the next product from Luma Labs out the door. It’s almost ready to go and we’ll be posting a lot more information...
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Bryan Pendleton: South America joins the Amazon cloud
Amazon Web Services is growing at an incredible rate. They just opened their eighth AWS region, in Sao Paolo, Brazil.Here's a nifty interactive map of the AWS global infrastructure, so you can see the...
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Bryan Pendleton: The bubble is back!
Wow! One billion dollars is a lot of money. Will they use some of that to start addressing the widely-reported discord?
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-12-15
French President’s Residence ‘Busted’ For BitTorrent Piracy | TorrentFreak : ‘According to data from YouHaveDownloaded.com, a range of downloads have been actioned from the Palace including a cam copy...
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Bryan Pendleton: Bowl Season is here!
College Football Bowl Game Season is upon us, filled with memorable events such as "The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl".With 35 bowl games, you need to know what to watch, and what to miss.So get prepared,...
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Claus Ibsen: Apache Camel - A little Scala DSL example
So we have a Scala DSL in Apache Camel for many years now, and I guess its about time I wrote a little blog entry about this (has been on my todo list for a while). So the Scala DSL is of course using...
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Bryan Pendleton: Did Iran capture the drone by hacking its GPS?
There's a fascinating report in today's Christian Science Monitor speculating that Iran used vulnerabilities in the drone's GPS technology to simply convince the drone to land in Iran:"GPS signals are...
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Nick Kew: Supreme importance
Julian Assange gets a supreme court hearing in front of no less than seven judges! Is that a legal first since we had a supreme court? No matter, it’s certainly exceptional. And over what? An...
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Christian Grobmeier: Dart is on Chromium – and Dart meets Scala
Today there were 2 good news in my inbox. First, a Chromium branch has arrived with the integrated Multi-VM which has been proposed to WebKit! It was only a matter of time this happens. For now you...
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Andrew Savory: Did a book kill my Kindle?
I have what is now called the Kindle Keyboard, a 3rd generation Kindle that I bought on 18 October last year. Like my laptop, it’s now dead. Incredible, right? Aside from observations on how all the...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-12-17
Using a Feistel Network for full-cycle permutation : nice algorithm. requires that the permuted set’s size be a power of 2 however – although for smaller sets you can just skip to the next output...
View ArticlePaul Querna: Technology behind Rackspace Cloud Monitoring
Earlier this week we announced a new product: Rackspace Cloud Monitoring. It is just starting as a (free) private beta, so if you want to try it out, be sure to sign up via the survey here. Transition...
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Tim Bish: ActiveMQ-CPP Version 3.4.1 Released
Its official, AcitveMQ-CPP v3.4.1 has now been released. This is a bug fix release of the ActiveMQ-CPP client which includes some fixes for issues found since the initial v3.4.0 release. There is...
View ArticlePaul Querna: The Switch: Python to Node.js
In my previous post, I glossed over our team switching from Python to Node.js. I kept it brief because the switch wasn’t the focus of the post, but since I believe I am being misunderstood, I will...
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Jon Scott Stevens: Don't use the jQuery .data() method. Use .attr() instead.
I just discovered the hard way that the jQuery .data() method is horribly broken. By design, it attempts to convert whatever you put into it into a native type. I've got a template where I'm generating...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Nikon D800 specs firm up on rumor sites
I’ve been looking forward to the successor for the D700 for quite some time. If it comes out as rumored, it’s going to be a nifty camera. I especially hope the option for not having the antialias...
View ArticleJames Duncan: The Gardens of the Queen on 60 Minutes
Anderson Cooper and David Guggenheim explore a reef south of Cuba called the Gardens of the Queen. It’s in extraordinarily good condition thanks to conservation efforts and its location. Access to the...
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Jean-Baptiste Onofré: Overview on Apache Karaf, Pax Web, and Camel archetypes
In my previous blog post, I introduced the Karaf Maven plugins. The Karaf Maven plugins are really helpful, starting from an existing POM. If you can write this POM by hand (it’s my favorite way ), we...
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Apache Wicket Community News: Autocomplete Ajax with Wicket And jQuery UI
Jeff Schwarz, The Wicket Evangelist blogs about Marrying Wicket And jQuery UI Autocomplete Ajax: I learned that no one seemed to have posted a pure Wicket solution but rather relied upon wiQuery’s...
View ArticleJ Aaron Farr: Pry Ruby Open
Requiring a reasonable Ruby REPL? Give Pry a try. It’s a gem install away with Rails integration not far behind. Today I give you a tour of Pry so you can decide if its right for you. In what follows,...
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