Bryan Pendleton: NetApp and Oracle have settled the ZFS patent lawsuit
I read today that NetApp and Oracle have settled the ZFS patent lawsuit.If you'd forgotten about this lawsuit, it involved a dispute between Sun and NetApp regarding patent infringement.It's always a...
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P2P investigations now illegal in Switzerland : ‘The country’s Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner, Hanspeter Thür, took Logistep to court and this week won a major victory. The...
View ArticleNick Kew: A straw in the wind?
An ex-minister faces a legal challenge to his reelection, on grounds of a level of alleged dishonesty in his campaign that not only affected the election outcome, but should disqualify him outright...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Retiring the colors
This evening I attended a scout pack meeting where they retired the colors. This is a ceremony where a flag that has come to the end of its life is disposed of with honor. The process is to cut it into...
View ArticleAsankha Perera: WSO2 falsely claims support for Zero copy
A few minutes ago, Asanka Abeysinghe the Director of Solutions Architecture of WSO2 claimed that the WSO2 ESB supports "Zero Copy", at the WSO2Con held in Colombo, 14th September 2010 However, this...
View ArticleBrett Porter: MaestroDev at JavaOne next week
After being in “stealth mode” for some time, MaestroDev is launching something new at JavaOne next week. In the next few days, we’ll be unveiling our new website, with information on what we’ve been...
View ArticleBen Laurie: Experimenting With Client Certificates
I was recently contacted about yet another attempt to use client certificates for authentication. As anyone paying attention knows, this has some attractions but is pretty much unusable in browsers...
View ArticleTed Leung: CouchCamp 2010
I spent a few days last week at CouchCamp, the first mass in-person gathering of the community around CouchDB. There were around 80 people from all over the world, which is pretty good turnout. The...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-09-14
Musopen raises $40,000 to set classical music “free” : open-source classical music: now very well-funded. awesome! (tags: musopen classical music copyright funding opensource free)
View ArticleGianugo Rabellino: Redmond, here we come
This will be a very short post, as life is incredibly hectic here. Let me just confirm that indeed I am joining Microsoft, and I am overly excited at the idea. On top of an incredible amount of warm...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: Autonomous Unmanned Surface Vessels
We have un-manned airplanes in the air (commonly called drones), so why should we be surprised about the idea of un-manned ships in the sea? Autonomous Unmanned Surface Vessels, or AUSVs, appear to be...
View ArticleDavid Reid: Tickets Please!
Last weekend we went to the RAF Leuchars airshow. As with many RAF bases, Leuchars isn’t located in an ideal location for getting 45,000 people to and from, resulting in traffic chaos (which was made...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: FINRA vs Trillium
I've been trying to understand this week's FINRA ruling regarding Trillium.I've seen a number of varying reports trying to explain the ruling to lay-people like me. The first one I saw claimed that...
View ArticleTed Husted
Coming Up 13 Sep 2010Here's a run down of three events coming up soon.Rochester Java Users Group, Tue 14 Sep A career focused meeting with a panel of three recruiters discussing how the job market has...
View ArticleBrett Porter: Copying a Codeplex subversion repository with rsvndump
As part of the process of migrating NPanday to the Apache Incubator, I had to find a way to extract the Subversion repository from Codeplex. The challenge here is that it isn’t actually a Subversion...
View ArticleJon Scott Stevens: reliable multicast memcached
PHP has a major issue with clustering sessions. Namely, reliability and scalability in a clustered environment. Network caching like this has been solved in Java land for ages now. ehcache+jgroups does...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin - October 2010
This is to announce the next Apache Hadoop Get Together sponsored by JTeam that will take place in newthinking store in Berlin. When: October 7th, 5p.m. Where: Newthinking store Berlin, Tucholksystr....
View ArticleDavid Crossley: Recipe: Wheatgrass juice
While it does take effort, growing our own wheatgrass at home and freshly juicing is very beneficial. We have some tips from our experience. Will try to gather some photos later. Growing it indoors is...
View ArticleTed Husted
iCustomizations While products like SalesForce and iMIS Public Views provide great functionality out of the box, there are a number of PV customizations that NimbleUser customers often request. *...
View ArticleDavid Valeri: Signing WS-Addressing headers in Apache CXF
As WS-Addressing (WS-A) headers can drastically affect the behavior of a Web service, securing these headers is just as important as securing the message payload. In many cases, these headers and...
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