James Duncan: From a mantelpiece fern to the front page
The New York Times Lens looks at how photographer Doug Mills set up a remote shot in the Oval Office of the White House to show a unique angle during a meeting between British Prime Minister David...
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Bryan Pendleton: It's not just a game...
... it's industrial art.Chjade84 convinced an Automated Laser Corporation 20 watt fiber laser to play "Still Alive," Jonathan Coulton's epic anthem for Valve's video-game Portal; as a lagniappe, the...
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Heshan Suriyaarachchi: OGCE XRegistry to Airavata Registry migration guide
This post describes how to migrate OGCE XRegistry to Apache Airavata Registry.Apache Airavata contains a migration tool that facilitates the migration of XRegistry resouces to Airavata Registry....
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Colm O hEigeartaigh: UsernameToken Derived Key support in Apache CXF
Support for UsernameToken derived keys has been added to Apache CXF and will be available in the forthcoming 2.4.7 and 2.5.3 releases. UsernameTokens are usually used for authentication, where an...
View ArticleJames Duncan: The movie Inception explained in an animated infographic
Matt Dempsey’s step-by-step trace of what happens in Inception in a beautifully executed web page. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-03-21
The Free Universal Construction Kit | F.A.T. : ‘a set of adapters for complete interoperability between 10 popular construction toys.’ this is like a patent-infringement lawsuit magnet, surely. Will...
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Nick Kew: Courageous!
Conventional wisdom says that because pensioners vote in large numbers, they can only ever be given more and more. Not, generally speaking, increases to the nominal value of the pension, but rather...
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Ted Husted: Unloading Salesforce CRM Data with Outbound Messages
No software application is an island, and Salesforce provides two great mechanisms for getting data in and out of your org. To get bits in, there's the Data Loader and other tools that use the same...
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Grant Ingersoll: The Art of Harnessing Unwieldy Data Big & Small
I’ll be doing a live panel interview today with DM Radio on The Art of Harnessing Unwieldy Data Big & Small. Click the link to register. Looks to be an interesting discussion on dealing with...
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Carlos Sanchez: Introduction to Puppet
Enough about philosophical posts, let’s get started with some practical Puppet. Manifests Puppet configuration files are called manifests, written in a ruby-like DSL. Puppet provides types and...
View ArticleDavid N. Welton: I'm not good enough to work on open source software
Actually, that's not true - I've produced plenty of open source software over the years. However, in a sense, it is true: only the very best actually get paid to work on open source software full...
View ArticleJames Duncan: WebKit Limit on Retina JPG Image Display
While doing some homework this evening on how to best display Retina-resolution photographs on the new iPad for future updates to both this and the Luma Labs sites, I ran into a frustrating problem....
View ArticleJames Duncan: Coping With a Huge Fireball
Daring Fireball sends some serious traffic and when it comes, it comes in fast and hard. No buildup. No ramping period. Just BAM. Instatraffic. There’s a name for it, even: a Fireball. I’ve watched...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-03-22
Stats from an Irish guy’s EV driving : EUR 529.07 over ~4000 miles in his Nissan Leaf; that works out as a yearly savings of EUR 1587.21. not to be sniffed at — although what’s the premium for a Leaf...
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David Reid: One year on…
Just over a year ago I wrote This is not the Android you want and as I’ve been spending time with android again I find it a little depressing how little progress has been made. Google have made their...
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Tony Stevenson: Rotated thunderbolt displays
I finally got around to rotating one of my Apple thunderbolt displays today, having found a reasonable arm that can carry the weight and not cost about half the price of the screen. Here it is:
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Olivier Lamy: Search and browse with Archiva new UI
If you follow me, you probably know I'm working on a new UI for Apache Archiva using plain html/javascript technologies (one page load app). Here some screenshot about new Search and Browsing screens....
View ArticleJames Duncan: Facebook says don’t give your password to employers
Finally, something sane from Facebook when it comes to privacy. Facebook’s privacy officer Erin Egan says: “As a user, you shouldn’t be forced to share your private information and communications just...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Progressive vs baseline JPEG file sizes
From 2008, Stoyan Stefanov looks at the stats on how progressive JPEG files stack up size-wise compared to baseline JPEGs. Short summary: baseline tends to win under 10k in file size, progressive tends...
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Bryan Pendleton: The complicated task of trying NOT to keep up with the times
Check out this wonderful essay by Princeton graduate student Benjamin Schmidt: The Foreign Language of 'Mad Men'.Using modern linguistic analysis tools, such as Google's Ngram analysis, Schmidt studies...
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