Bryan Pendleton: Crypto class delayed
From an email to registered students:But since we don't have a firm timeline right now, we'd rather leave this open and get back to you with a definitive date soon (rather than just promise you a date...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Daniel Steinberg on the iBooks Author EULA
Daniel looks at the eye-raising terms of the iBooks Author EULA in comparison with the even more onerous terms imposed on authors by traditional publishers. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
View ArticleOlivier Lamy: Unit tests with embeded tomcat artifacts
In the 7.x releases of Apache Tomcat, some maven artifacts are now published which include a nice and fluent embeded api to run a Tomcat instance.So it's a nice opportunity to use it writing units to...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Media and storage of the future
I just lost a hard disk. No big deal. My somewhat complicated home media setup is this: I have a Samsung TV plugged in to a first generation AppleTV. The AppleTV is connected to the network via wired...
View ArticleDavid N. Welton: Thinking at the Margin
Something I've picked up from reading about economics is the concept of "the margin". It's a way of thinking about problems that more people ought to take into consideration. What is "the margin"?...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Scrum done wrong
“Agile and Lean have a single purpose: to continually challenge the status quo. If you’re not doing that, you’re probably an impediment to it.” agile42.com Judging from the way some people become...
View ArticleSagara Gunathunga: JAX-WS processing using Axis2 tools
JAX-WS wsgen and wsimport tools were designed to generate portable artifacts so that those artifacts can be use with any JAX-WS vendor runtime also these tools distribute as a part of JDK....
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: It's no Hugo Cabret, but ...
... Brian Selznick's Wonderstruck is a warm and entertaining book.It's written in the same style as Hugo Cabret: neither graphic novel nor ordinary prose, it's something in between, with the book's...
View ArticleChristian Grobmeier: Time & Bill – Free Timetracking, kostenlose...
Auch in deutscher Fassung erhältlich Before a good while I installed Time & Bill free Timetracking on an EC2 instance. It is a simple to use and free time tracker build upon Struts 2 and a good...
View ArticleJean-Baptiste Onofré: Ubuntu boot hang up with kernel 3.0.0-15 and lvm2
Today, I updated my Ubuntu box and a new kernel has been installed (3.0.0-15 x86_64). At boot, my system hangs up just after the /scripts/init-bottom phase. I tried with kernel 3.0.0-14, the behavior...
View ArticleJon Scott Stevens: Scalable System Architecture Comedy
I was reading Scaling a PHP MySQL Web Application, which is a technical document published on the Oracle website. As I was scrolling down the page, I saw the typical Load balancing Figure 1 that you...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Teddy in Chicago
Last week I spent several days in Chicago mainly to attend a few meetings at the local Nokia/Navteq office. Though the schedule was pretty packed, a few hours remained to explore the then frosty and...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Yosemite HD
Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty met on Vimeo and came together to create a stunning time-lapse view of Yosemite National Park. Beautiful. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
View ArticleJames Duncan: Photos from Coffee Common x NYC
Scott Beale had a chance to drop by A Startup Store and check out the goings on at Coffee Common x NYC. Looks like it was a great space and a wonderful event. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: "A Bug Hunter's Diary": simple idea, effectively executed
Tobias Klein's A Bug Hunter's Diary is a simple idea which Klein carries through to execution quite well.The book is structured as a series of 7 separate chapters; each chapter relates the story of how...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-01-22
Why should we stop online piracy? – opinion – 19 January 2012 – New Scientist : ‘There’s no evidence that the US is currently suffering from an excessive amount of online piracy, and there is ample...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Take or Capture? No, Make
Mike Johnston posed a question from a reader on the Online Photographer site which comes up now and again: “As an aside, a semantic question. Why do we ‘capture images’ when using digital, but ‘take...
View ArticleChris Pepper: Big Balls' premiere & Les Sans Culottes at The Rock Shop
Thursday night at The Rock Shop, Out of Order opened. I didn't really see their set. Then Big Balls, an AC/DC cover band, played their premier show -- AC/DC's entire first album High Voltage and the...
View ArticleJasha Joachimsthal: Apache Rave (Incubating) demo: add user and widget
Apache Rave (Incubating) is rapidly evolving to a production ready web and social mashup engine. This demo video shows you how a user can sign up, add existing widgets to his pages and add a...
View ArticleApache Wicket Community News: Apache Wicket – Wicket 1.5.4 released
See: Apache Wicket – Wicket 1.5.4 released.
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