James Duncan: Temporary TED art goes permanent in Long Beach
Gabriel Dawe’s Plexus C2 sculpture–created for the Full Spectrum theme of TED2012—consists of 37 miles of colored thread. It was supposed to be a temporary installation for the event, but the...
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Ian Boston: Modern WebApps
Modern web apps. like it or not, are going to make use of things like WebSockets. Browser support is already present and UX designers will start requiring that UI implementations get data from the...
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Oliver Wulff: SAML sender-vouches use case
In my previous blog here I described the different SAML subject confirmation methods (SCM) and how they integrate with an STS. This blog describes the use case for the Sender-Vouches (SV) SCM. As this...
View ArticlePaul Querna: Retaliatory Only Patents
Today Yahoo launched a patent lawsuit against Facebook. Yahoo has always said they collect patents for defensive purposes only. Then Yahoo’s newest CEO, Scott Thompson, is brought in, and gives choice...
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Bryan Pendleton: Great gaming post
This is the most epic game article you will read this year.Warning: Some rather adult language in the article.
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Ted Husted: Salesforce Certification - A Win/Win
General knowledge of database or website technologies is invaluable, but at the the end of the day, we implement projects in specific products. A Ph.D. in computer science doesn't mean someone is a SQL...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Teachers are heros
Chris Anderson posts about the motivations behind the TED-Ed project for its launch today: “the question we’ve been asking with increasing urgency the past couple years is: could we do something...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Blue Man Group visits the Tokyo International School
A surprise visit to the Tokyo International School by the Blue Man Group. Apparently none of the students and only a handful of teachers knew what was in store for the day. Perfect. Linked by James...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-03-12
Advanced PostMortem Fu and Human Error 101 (Velocity 2011) : John Allspaw’s previous slides on Etsy’s operations culture — this’ll be old hat to Amazon staff of course ;) (tags: etsy devops...
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Sander Temme: Apache HTTP Server Usage Survey Results
This post ran originally on blogs.apache.org/httpd. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had an idea of how people use the software that you write? I wanted to have an idea how the Apache HTTP Server is being...
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Carlos Sanchez: Infrastructure as Code
DevOps is not about the tools That’s true, in the same way that agile is not about the tools either, it’s a set of ideas, concepts, best practices,… Nice, but… how can I successfully implement it?...
View ArticleJasha Joachimsthal: What is bundled with Apache Rave?
When you download and run the demo binaries of Apache Rave you see the demo portal in your browser on http://localhost:8080. The demo portal is built using Spring MVC for the request handling, Spring...
View ArticleJohannes Geppert: Struts2 jQuery Plugin now based on jQuery 1.7 and with...
I am happy to announce that the Version 3.3.0 of Struts2 jQuery Plugin is now available. The main change is the switch from jQuery 1.6.4 to the latest version 1.7.1 of the jQuery 1.7.x releases. This...
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Bryan Pendleton: The Google I/O 2012 website is live
The information is still being filled in, but the Google I/O 2012 website is now live. Lots of organizational information is available, but I don't see the technical sessions agenda just yet.As you'll...
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Bryan Pendleton: Mark your calendars!
Stephen Hawking to guest star on 'Big Bang Theory'
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-03-13
Fake Unicode Consortium : featuring such codepoints as “I USED TO BE A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K LIKE YOU THEN I TOOK AN ARROW IN THE KNEE”, “BACK TO THE FUTURE”, “ENTERING HYPERSPACE”, “LATIN CAPITAL...
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David Reid: Camera HAL Module
I’ve spent a bit of time looking at a module that would allow the camera sensor on my phone to work with the new ICS interface. I’ve not made as much progress as I’d have liked, but have the start of...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Virgin America is coming to Portland
Huzzah! Virgin America finally will start flights to Portland starting on June 5th. It looks like service will start with two daily flights to LAX and one daily flight to SFO. Linked by James Duncan...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Linking to a specific frame in a video patented by Google
Um, really? It’s not like keeping pointers to specific frames and timecodes in video is a novel idea. What do you think non-linear editors like Final Cut are built around? Expressing that kind of...
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Steve Loughran: Hadoop in Cloud Infrastructures
People say "should you run Hadoop in the cloud?". I say "it depends".I think there is value in Hadoop-in-cloud, I talked about doing it in 2010 at Berlin Buzzwords 2010; since then I've had more...
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