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David Crossley: Qtstalker gathers steam
Regarding the Qtstalker project, the open-source stock market charting and technical analysis package for UNIX-like systems: With my last post we thought that the new Qt4 version was nearly ready....
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Jon Scott Stevens: GitHire spam again...
Just keeping this around for posterity since they deleted the HN posting and maybe others will want to see the truth if they are googling around for why you are getting spam from these guys....
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Christian Grobmeier: How I select Open Source projects
Earlier this day somebody sent a image on twitter. Its title was something like, “how to choose Open Source projects” or so. It showed a flow chart. The first decision point was: is it an Apache...
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Edward J. Yoon: Big Data vs. Cloud computing, 또 한번의 기술진화
Hadoop 2.0 부터는 resource sharing architecture로 가면서, 사실상 Facebook이나 Y!같은 인터넷 기업의 통합 Big Data 처리 솔루션에 좀 더 가까워지고 우리가 흔히 아는 장비 렌트 개념의 Cloud 환경에는 그닥 어울리지 않는 왜냐하면 가상화된 다수의 VMs를 다시 Hadoop cluster로 가상화하면서 발생하는...
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Bryan Pendleton: Location, location, location
In computing, as in everything else, we care about physical location:First, do you know where, I mean exactly where, the Web was invented? In case you don't, David Galbraith helps us track down the...
View ArticleJames Duncan: BASE jumping off the Marina Bay Sands Skypark in Singapore
Seven BASE jumpers took the sky from the top of the Marina Bay Sands Skypark on New Years Day 2012. When I was there earlier this month and saw the view from on top of the building, I immediately...
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Adrian Sutton: The Business of Standards
Recently I’ve been getting spam from the “standards organisation” OASIS inviting a company that I don’t work for1 to join a new standards initiative. There’s no pretense that I’m being invited because...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Red states vs blue states and federal spending
To see which states get more money from the federal government than they get charted out against their predominant political orientation is fascinating. (via @bwjones and @brainpicker) Linked by James...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Similar but not copied image found to breach copyright
Can an image that is a stylistic rip-off of another, but which doesn’t copy the first one, be an infringement? A judge in the UK has ruled just that, despite there being no implication that the second...
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Sergey Beryozkin: Make your Application Server CXF JAX-RS friendly
Now and then I'm seeing users reporting issues on the forums to do with deploying web applications with CXF JAX-RS libraries into some of the popular Java EE application servers. So I thought, while...
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Rob Weir: First release of the Apache ODF Toolkit
The Apache ODF Toolkit 0.5 (incubating) release is now available for download. Detailed change notes are also posted. The ODF Toolkit is a Java library for reading, writing and creating ODF...
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Mukul Gandhi: Using XSD 1.1 assertions on complexType mixed contents
There were some interesting ;) thoughts coming to my mind lately, and not surprisingly again related to XSD. I was playing with XSD 1.1 assertions once again to try to constrain an XSD...
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Bryan Pendleton: "Then the screams began."
All right, I know, I said I was not writing about these topics, but, really, have you read this report in today's New York Times about the conditions in the Chinese factories that build the world's...
View ArticleSimon Willnauer: Query time joining in Lucene
Recently query time joining has been added to the Lucene join module in the Lucene svn trunk. The query time joining will be included in the Lucene 4.0 release and there is a possibility that it will...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: Tapestry Advantages
A summary of a discussion about the advantages of Tapestry over Struts: Exceptional exception reporting Significantly less code Live class reloading Sensible defaults, especially for SEO-friendly URLs...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Wired UK’s guide to ACTA, a bigger threat than PIPA/SOPA
SOPA and PIPA might be on hold, but they weren’t the only things that big content was working on. ACTA, the Anti-Counterfiting Trade Agreement, has been negotiated in secret over the last few years and...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Scrumtisch Berlin
After quite some time off I went to the Scrumtisch Berlin. The event was incredibly well visited - roughly 50 people filled the upper floor at Cafe Hundertwasser. Today’s event was organised such that...
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Rob Davies: CamelOne is back!
FuseSource is hosting the CamelOne event this year in Boston, MA, May 15-18th 2012. Its the best conference to go to to hear about Apache Camel, ActiveMQ, ServiceMix, Karaf and CXF.Its going to be...
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Apache Wicket Community News: Built with Wicket: Small Improvements
Performance review software, 360 degree feedback software, objectives management. Small Improvements.
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Claus Ibsen: Unit testing OSGi Blueprint with Apache Camel made easier
Apache Camel 2.10 is currently in development, and recently Guillaume Nodet added a new camel-test-blueprint component, to make unit testing Camel with OSGi blueprint much easier. I have then polished...
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