Stefan Bodewig: Apache Ant 1.8.3 Released
yesterday we released Ant 1.8.3, go grab it from the download page. By pure coincidence it was released on a leap-day. This release really mostly is a bug fix release, see the release notes for a...
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Bryan Pendleton: I love style guides
Style guides have a long and distinguished past. Classic examples include Strunk & White's The Elements of Style, and The Chicago Manual of Style (can't resist that chance to mention my Alma...
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David Reid: Building for HTC Desire HD
This is for a build in ~/work/android/system rather than the usually quoted ~/android/system. Start off in the usual way… sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib sudo apt-get install bison flex schedtool cd...
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Adrian Sutton: Alternating Table Row Colours Filling All Available Space
CSS3 makes it trivial to have alternating row colours for tables, but when the table is in a fixed height scroll panel, it’s much more difficult to have those alternating row colours extend beyond the...
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Alex Karasulu: Getting Libmad working on macports
An attempt to install libmad will fail on macports. There are several issues open for this. To get libmad-0.15.1b working for macports requires a bit of manual intervention. Follow these steps to make...
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Colm O hEigeartaigh: Apache Santuario (XML Security for Java) 1.5.1 released
Apache Santuario (XML Security for Java) 1.5.1 has been released and is available for download. The release notes are available here. This release fixes two important bugs - a bug in XMLSignatureInput...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): aDSL at the end of the rope
I've been using Speakeasy for my DSL provider for about 3 years now. They've been really good. Recently, they got assimilated (along with Covad) into Megapath. I've had my first serious dealings with...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Berlin Hadoop Get Together - videos are up
Markus Andrezak on Queue management with Kanban: Queue Management in Product Development with Kanban - enabling flow and fast feedback along the value chain from David Obermann on Vimeo. Martin Scholl...
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Bryan Pendleton: Satan's Trifecta
One of the eternal complexities of computing is how to handle dates and times. Practice makes perfect, so goes the saying; a corollary to that saying is that if you only do something rarely, you don't...
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Facts Are Sacred : A new Irish news site with some familiar names. ‘What is a fact? In philosophy, a fact is something that makes a statement true. In science, it is a verifiable observation. In our...
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Andrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-03
@tefdigital @OpenWebDevice some fixes needed on http://t.co/5HSEa6dv – worst offenders highlighted in the attached pic. http://t.co/iFCUVgxM # @andreascon tale of missed opportunities though. Mozilla...
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Andrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-03
@tefdigital @OpenWebDevice some fixes needed on http://t.co/5HSEa6dv – worst offenders highlighted in the attached pic. http://t.co/iFCUVgxM # @andreascon tale of missed opportunities though. Mozilla...
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Bryan Pendleton: How will the field of software analysis emerge?
The software field is still very young; I was lucky enough to enter it when it was just beginning, and I'm still alive and actively practicing. I think there are very few fields of study which are so...
View ArticleJames Duncan: How to cite a tweet in an academic paper
Addressing a need, the Modern Language Association has devised a format for citing tweets. (via @bwjones) Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
View ArticleJames Duncan: The many voices of the TEDx conversation
If TED is the platform and the TEDTalk is the discrete packet of idea transfer, TEDx is the interconnected network that is taking both the practice of the TEDTalk as well as connecting people and ideas...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Alexander Graham Bell invented frequency division multiplexing?...
Glenn Fleishman writes for the Economist about how modern networking depends on frequency division multiplexing which has its roots in Bell’s work back in the 1870’s. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
View ArticleJames Duncan: Behind the scenes in the making of a TEDTalk
Jessica E. Vascellaro from the Wall Street Journal came down to the Media Cave at TED2012 to find out how the a presentation at TED becomes a TEDTalk online. Amusing side note: in the photo that...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-03-03
Photo Tampering throughout History : dating back to 1860: ‘This nearly iconic portrait (in the form of a lithograph) of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is a composite of Lincoln’s head and the Southern...
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Edward J. Yoon: 젊음이 최고!
대학시절 오토바이부터 이런저런 스피드를 즐겨온 것이 이제 벌써 10년이 훌쩍 넘어버린 지금은 몸과 마음이 안따라준다는 생각이 든다. 그간 익사이팅했던 자극에 무뎌져버린 것은 아닌가 의심도 해봤으나, 4교시 종 치자마자 도시락 까먹고 운동장 나가서 신나게 땀 한바가지 축구하던, ..수도꼭지 풀쓰로틀, 그 콸콸흐르는 찬물로 머리감고 난 후의 상쾌한 그...
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