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Bryan Pendleton: Mapping the past
Imagine what California may have looked like, 200 years ago.
View ArticleDaniel Kulp: svnpubsub for Confluence sites
Anyone on a PMC at Apache likely saw a message sent out about a month ago from infrastructure@ that mentioned the mandate about project websites (and dist areas) change over to using svnpubsub by the...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Leaps and bounds and cracks in the pavement
As things (technology, communications methods, social awareness, etc.) advance by leaps and bounds, they undoubtedly soar over and therefore miss a lot of cracks and potholes that would otherwise be...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Video editing in a future version of Photoshop
The merging of tools to make stills and video isn’t just happening at the point of creation with cameras that shoot both. It’s also happening in the tools we use to edit visual data. Here’s a demo of a...
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Michael McCandless: New index statistics in Lucene 4.0
In the past, Lucene recorded only the bare minimal aggregate indexstatistics necessary to support itshard-wired classicvector space scoring model.Fortunately, this situationis wildlyimproved in trunk...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-03-14
Cloud Architecture Tutorial – Platform Component Architecture (2of3) : Amazing stuff from Adrian Cockroft at last week’s QCon. Faceted object model, lots of Cassandra automation (tags: cassandra api...
View ArticleJames Duncan: John Gruber’s iPad (3) review
John Gruber writes his thoughts on the all new iPad. He highlights one thing that I’ve been spending cycles thinking about: how web images look. He writes: “most graphics and images on the web are...
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Ted Husted: Toggling PDF Mode In a Visualforce Apex Page
Salesforce.com has made it easy to blend custom Visualforce pages into a standard Salesforce CRM site. Using the standard stylesheets and a smattering of markup, we can cobble up a custom Account,...
View ArticleOrtwin Glück: [Code] JAX-WS wildcard address
If you have wondered how to make a JAX-WS endpoint listen on the wildcard address: Endpoint.publish("http://0:8080/MyService", new MyService()); Just use 0 as the IP. If you wonder why that works, look...
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Bryan Pendleton: rands on hacking
Michael Lopp, who writes as Rands in Repose is, I think, the greatest observer of the realities of life in the software profession. If you want to know what the software industry is like, his book is a...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Bryan Jones in Portland last month
Bryan came out to Portland last month and spent an impromptu night hanging out with Julie, David, Greg, Angela, and me at my place and at the Daily Café, which is always a great place for dinner. It...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-03-15
JS1k, 1k demo submission : a speech synthesizer in 1 KB of javascript. truly awesome, nice work by @p01 (tags: js1k javascript demos speech hacks coding)
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James Duncan: Restoring an iPhone from iCloud
Earlier today, I took my trusty iPhone 4 into an Apple Store to have an odd issue looked at. The front glass panel had started making an odd popping sound when you pressed on it, almost like it was...
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Guillaume Nodet: Camel Webinar
Je présente la semaine prochaine un webinar sur Camel en français intitulé "Introduction à Apache Camel".Inscrivez-vous !
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Bryan Pendleton: Perfectly named for your career
Names are wonderful, and sometimes they fascinate me. Are these two fellows just perfectly named for their careers?Two days after special-teams star Blake Costanzo signed with the Bears, the 49ers...
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Bryan Pendleton: Followup, followup, followup
I love a good follow-up. There's almost always more to a story than first meets the eye, and if the story is an important one, often there is much more to the story.Here's some recent follow-ups that...
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Heshan Suriyaarachchi: How to Deploy Apache Airavata on Tomcat
Applies to Airavata Trunk - apache-airavata-0.3-incubating-SNAPSHOT.zipAxis version - Axis2 1.5.1.warJackrabbit version - jackrabbit-webapp-2.4.0.warTomcat version - apache-tomcat-7.0.23Airavata...
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Steve Loughran: Safety in High Energy Physics and US Visitor paperwork
The NYT article on US immigration and ESTA makes me think that I should publish the safety lecture from the November 2010 Bristol Hadoop workshop, which was hosted by Bristol University Physics Dept....
View ArticleJames Duncan: Cities are a new target for tech patent trolls
Apparently, Martin Jones is suing cities that have implemented bus arrival tracking systems. And he’s doing so successfully. At the very least, King County, Illinois Commuter Rail, the Massachusetts...
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James Duncan: The Nest Thermostat
A knock at the door on iPad day. Run to the door. What could it be? Nope. Not an iPad… but it is a Nest thermostat that my Dad sent me as a gift. Pretty spiffy. I’ve been really interested in the Nest...
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