Matt Raible: Upgrading AppFuse to Spring Security 3.1 and Spring 3.1
Before the holiday break, I spent some time upgrading AppFuse to use the latest releases of Spring and Spring Security. I started with Spring Security in early December and quickly discovered its 3.1...
View ArticlePaul Querna: Rackspace Open Sources Dreadnot, a Continuous Deployment tool
Today we open sourced Dreadnot, our take on a Continuous Deployment tool. Details are posted over on the Rackspace Cloud Blog Source is up on github.com/racker/dreadnot.
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Justin Mason: Links for 2012-01-05
Punching through The Great Firewall of T-Mobile : well, this is bizarre — it seems T-Mobile UK are blocking encrypted email submission and OpenVPN traffic in their mobile internet access products....
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James Duncan: Arrival in Bagan
57 hours after leaving home in Portland found me disembarking from an Air Mandalay ATR-170 on the ramp at Nyaung U Airport (NYU) on an overcast, damp morning. This part of Myanmar is usually dry and...
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Bryan Pendleton: The Beautiful and the Damned: a very short review
At some point this fall I zipped through The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India by Siddhartha Deb.It's an extremely quick read, short and fascinating, vivid and well-written, but oh...
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James Duncan: Bagan Pottery
Huge ceramic pottery on sale in a market in Bagan, Myanmar. Posted by James Duncan Davidson.
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James Duncan: Inside Dhammayangyi Temple
A woman walking through Dhammayangyi Temple in Bagan, Myanmar. Posted by James Duncan Davidson.
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Sergey Beryozkin: Maven archetype for creating CXF JAX-RS applications
A number of Maven plugins that CXF JAX-RS users could try for generating the initial code they could build upon for creating working applications was close to zero not too long ago, in fact it was...
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Bryan Pendleton: Windows 8 Storage Spaces whitepaper
It looks like the Storage Spaces feature of Windows 8 will be very powerful.Fundamentally, Storage Spaces virtualizes storage in order to be able to deliver a multitude of capabilities in a...
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Rich Bowen: IT at the University of Cincinnati
On Wednesday evening, I had the great privilege of being invited to the University of Cincinnati to attend the basketball game against Notre Dame, in the President's box at the arena. In attendance,...
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Bryan Pendleton: Mining dark fiber
Something about this story in Information Age seems "off" to me.The story, entitled Mining dark fibre, describes how there are firms that specialize in locating hitherto-unused fiber optic cables and...
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Nick Kew: Past Crimes
Should people who committed serious crimes a long time ago be severely punished or handsomely rewarded? Or do we let sleeping dogs lie if a long time has elapsed and they no longer pose a threat? This...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Is it Myanmar or Burma?
In 1989, the military government of Burma changed the official translation of many colonial era names, including changing the country name to Myanmar. The opposition groups—as well as the United...
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Andrew Savory: Predictive Text
Cringely has a bunch of predictions for 2012. They all feel wrong, for one reason or another. Let’s run through them. A new CEO for Apple: No. Amazon and Bezos supplant Apple and Jobs: No. Shareholders...
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David Reid: Bifferboard
This post is another of those “this will help me more than you” ones, but you never know, it may help someone other than me! Today marked the first time I had plugged the Bifferboard into the network...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Vandalism
Today we discovered that someone had vandalized our property. We have a small clearing down by the creek. Someone has cut down our tire swing (yes, definitely cut) and we found the tire in a little...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-01-07
Skeuomorph : word of the day, via a comment on http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/01/snow-crash-simulated/ : ‘A skeuomorph /?skju??m?rf/ skew-?-morf, or skeuomorphism (Greek: skeuos—vessel or tool,...
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Nick Kew: Past mistakes
Controversy of the week: what to do about the legacy of cosmetic surgery in which a key component is (retrospectively) deemed defective? Should the offending breast implants be removed, replaced, or...
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