James Duncan: Little by little, Apple products just get better
Glenn Fleishman writes for TidBITS about one of the real secrets behind Apple’s success: steady incremental improvements that add up to real value for the customer. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
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Ted Husted: Sun goes Nova. Cloud intact.
The Internet was designed to survive a nuclear holocaust, but no one expected to find social media networks still available after the Sun's surprise flare-up on Saturday. "While we talk about the bits...
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Rob Weir: Gorilla Free Software Marketing, Chapter 8: Community Metrics
The Importance of Metrics Revolutionary movements require revolutionary progress. However, at the start of a Movement, such progress may not be immediately evident to those whose views of progress...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Improved Wunderbar JSON support
W I’ve integrated jbuilder like functionality into Wunderbar. Key differences? A DSL that doesn’t suck, and output that isn’t ugly. To harsh? You be the judge. Compare jbuilder ("json dot bar json...
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Nick Kew: April fools or spooks?
Isn’t it both bad taste and bad judgement for government to play April fools jokes? Or for media to devise such jokes that purport to be serious reports of government? Yet the BBC is reporting what...
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James Duncan: First Impressions Using the Nikon D800
Through a very fortunate chance connection to somebody who got lucky enough to pick up a copy the first day it was released, I was able to secure a Nikon D800 the day before I left the United States to...
View ArticleChristian Schneider: Camel Talk at the Java User Group Karslruhe
Blog post added by Christian Schneider This wednesday on the 4th of April I will give a talk about the open source integration framework Apache Camel at the Java User Group in Karlsruhe. I will start...
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Christian Grobmeier: (Google) “Dart versus Motörhead” in Dresden
Recently I already explained: Dart rocks. Meanwhile the Dart band has seen several great releases – it is now time to see if Dart can compete with the big rockstars in the scene – like Motörhead!...
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Jeroen Reijn: Getting started with MongoDB and Spring Data
Last month I finally found some time to play around with a NoSQL database. Getting hands on experience with a NoSQL database has been on my list for quite some time, but due to busy times at work I was...
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David Reid: Pingback test
Testing pingback code, so ignore this post http://photo.david-reid.com/
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This site was hacked. A reader of the site noted that Google’s index of this site had been co-opted by dubious pharmaceutical offerings. I’ll gladly thank that individual publicly if they give me...
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Justin Mason: Links for 2012-04-02
Displaying a webpage as a screensaver on Ubuntu : using xscreensaver. sounds simple enough. UPDATE: easier: “apt-get install xtrlock”, a transparent lock screen (tags: screensavers lock ubuntu...
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Ben Laurie: EFF Finally Notice 0day Market
Six years after I first blogged about it, the EFF have decided that selling 0days may not be so great. Maybe they should be reading my blog? Share This
View ArticleChristian Grobmeier: More Cordova/jQuery mobile pain: ajax and events
When updating the mobile client of Time & Bill I run into jQuery mobile trouble again. This time lost nearly 12 hours for problems nobody does need. And yes, Open Source or not – I have considered...
View ArticleIgor Galić: Is that a Threat?
When a little over two years ago people from the Apache community hinted I might get commit that was my reaction. “Is that a threat?” With the power of commit comes responsibility. With the openness of...
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Bryan Pendleton: Hunger Games movie
I thought the movie adaptation of The Hunger Games was excellent. Making a movie out of a book is always tricky business. There always turn out to be two audiences: some have already read the book,...
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James Duncan: Harnessing the World
Sculpture titled “Harnessing the World” at Katara Ampitheater in Qatar I’ve posted a photo of this scultpure from Katara once before in my D800 first impressions post. Walking by it again yesterday,...
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James Duncan: Doha Bay
A view to the south across Doha Bay from Al Corniche. Posted by James Duncan Davidson.
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