Justin Mason: Links for 2012-02-03
Politics.ie – Labour Senator takes to twitter to defend comments, insults all around him : In which Ben Walsh memorably takes on racist/right-wing comments from a Labour senator, and gets told to “go...
View ArticleJohannes Geppert: Version 1.2.0 of Struts2 Bootstrap Plugin released
Since the First 1.0.0 Release of Struts2 Bootstrap Plugin there are some important changes. Maven Support Like promised in my previous post, this Plugin is now available as Maven Artifact....
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Andrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-04
Achievement unlocked: completed Halo. Only 11 years late. http://t.co/n4ULECu9 # And now… http://t.co/kKiOK0Gw # I can understand Kindle books costing as much as paperbacks (ish), but costing more...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Why Zack went medium format
Zack Arias has been bitten by the medium format bug and for good reason. The images that a medium format digital back can put out are amazing. I’ve long been a fan of Zack’s work and look forward to...
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James Duncan: Mike DeGruy 1951-2012
Mike DeGruy at Baltra Airport in the Galapagos Islands, April 2010. Filmmaker and Mission Blue speaker Mike DeGruy was killed in a helicopter crash in Australia while working on his next project....
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Phil Steitz: Rsync - how it works
Adding another box to my home network, I went through my usual fiddling with rsync to synch some of its data with other hosts on the network. To make sure I was correctly understanding the man pages,...
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Ben Laurie: Certificate Transparency Sites
I may not have said much more about Certificate Transparency, but we’ve been working on it. So, those interested in following along (or joining in) are welcome to look at… Website. Mailing list. Code...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Default to Incognito
Patch for /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop: 108c108 < Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome %U --- > Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome %U --incognito 114c114 <...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-02-04
_Intellectual property rights and innovation: Evidence from the human genome_ (PDF) : ‘Do intellectual property (IP) rights on existing technologies hinder subsequent innovation? Using newly-collected...
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Matt Raible: My What's New in Spring 3.1 Presentation
My first business trip of the year was to Dublin, CA this past week. Trish joined me because she wanted to take some pictures of San Francisco. She got some awesome shots as you can see below. On...
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Mukul Gandhi: "castable as" vs "instance of" XPath 2.0 expressions for XSD...
I'm continuing with my thoughts related to my previous blog post (ref, http://mukulgandhi.blogspot.in/2012/01/using-xsd-11-assertions-on-complextype.html). The earlier post used the XPath 2.0 "castable...
View ArticleRobert Burrell Donkin: A Personal Milestone: Back At Work
In 2010, nerve and tendon issues in my wrist and hand reduced my computer time to zero — forcing me to drop out from the masters course (I'd been studying). For the last couple of years, I've been...
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Steve Loughran: Just because you can rewrite your codebase doesn't mean you...
The strength of automated driven test suites is that you can verify that all the testable/covered parts of your system still work, even after major changes.The strength of modern IDEs is at a click of...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-02-05
Vladimir Lenin and the ‘Rathmines accent’ : this is brilliant. Turns out Lenin spoke English with what would now be called a “D4″ accent, roysh! (tags: accents ireland dublin lenin history rathmines)
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Deepal Jayasinghe: Install XEN dom0 and domU on Ubuntu 11.10
I had trouble getting Xen working on Ubuntu 10.04 and had to do many things, in fact still failing with LVM. Luckily with Ubuntu 11.10 installing Xen dom0 and domU is much easier, here is the steps to...
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David Crossley: Incubator mail deluge
When the pressure is on, it is amazing how other seemingly unrelated things heat up at the same time. We have the “go-live” for our new trading platform, which is big enough. The Apache Incubator mail...
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Andrew Savory: BlackBerry WebWorks
Based on today’s upcoming Hackathon I’m investigating WebWorks (not WebWorks (with annoying voice popup!) or WebWorks). These are rough, quick notes in the spirit of “publish early and often”. So far...
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Andrew Savory: Creating a BlackBerry WebWorks app
Some notes on building my first WebWorks app. I figured the quickest way to get an app up and running would be to take the examples from BlackBerry. Working from...
View ArticleSimon Willnauer: Uwe Says: is your Reader atomic?
Since Day 1 Lucene exposed the two fundamental concepts of reading and writing an index directly through IndexReader & IndexWriter. However, the API didn’t reflect reality; from the IndexWriter...
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Grant Ingersoll: Looking for a Research Engineer
I’m looking for a Research Engineer with Hadoop and Solr experience to work on next generation search and big data problems. If you are interested or know someone who is, please take a look at Careers...
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