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James Duncan: Doha Skyline from the North
A view of the Doha skyline from a vantage point in The Pearl, Qatar. Posted by James Duncan Davidson.
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James Duncan: Taxis in Doha
Doha is an automobile city. There’s no public transportation to speak of—although they’re talking about putting in a subway—and sidewalks are fairly mediocre where they even exist. So getting around...
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Ted Husted: Failing safe with the Apex Data Loader for Salesforce
If you have a way to pull and format data from another system, the Apex Data Loader is a great, on-demand way to push data into Salesforce CRM. Without much effort, you can automate the process and...
View ArticleNoirin Plunkett: Advice from my own meandering experience
(I recently posted a beta version of this advice to the Google Summer of Code mentors list. By popular demand, it now appears for the first time in public. With thanks to Mary Schmich!) Ladies and...
View ArticleTed Leung: JSConf 2012
This year JSConf was in Scottsdale Arizona, which provided some welcome relief from the cold, wet, Seattle winter/spring. News One of the biggest pieces of news was that Mozilla gave all attendees a...
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Richard Kettelerij: Exploring Kotlin
I’ve been exploring Kotlin recently. Kotlin is a new statically typed JVM language and was announced about half a year ago. This month JetBrains released its first milestone candidate which I decided...
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Bryan Pendleton: How many hours are there in the day?
After some dithering and uncertainty, I've once again signed up for this year's Google Summer of Code. It's hard to find time for this in my busy schedule, but it's a great program and I've enjoyed...
View ArticleChristian Schneider: Camel Talk at the Java User Group Karlsruhe
Blog post edited 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...
View ArticleChristian Schneider: New Karaf 2.2.6 includes features chooseurl command to...
Blog post edited by Christian Schneider - "karaf osgi" Today the 2.2.6 Version of Karaf was released. It incorporates more than 80 fixed jira issues. One important usability improvement is the...
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Dennis E. Hamilton: A Planet of Blog Splinters … Apache Feathers?
The Apache Software Foundation provides a Planet Apache blog consolidation. I’d like to have my articles that are related to Apache projects, especially Apache OpenOffice, to be directed to the...
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Bruce Snyder: A Trip To Japan Over Spring Break
During my kids' spring break at school a couple of weeks ago, we traveled to Japan. My oldest daughter's soccer team did a cultural exchange with a soccer team in Arao, Japan, staying with host...
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James Duncan: Museum of Islamic Art
The Museum of Islamic Art, designed by I. M. Pei, at night in Doha, Qatar Posted by James Duncan Davidson.
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James Duncan: Visiting Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera was launched in by the state of Qatar after the shutdown of the BBC’s Arabic language operations and has become a worldwide media powerhouse. Funded by the Emir of Qatar to support his...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Have you been ripped off by a Karwa taxi lately?
Doha news reports on complaints about Karwa, the local Doha taxi operator. As part of the article, they include a quote from my blog post about my taxi experiences here. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
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Bryan Pendleton: Bryan turns 40!
... well, to be precise, "Bryan" the Nord is now a Level 40 character in Skyrim.I've been playing for 3 full months now; approximately 250 hours of real time, according to the game stats. I think I've...
View ArticleJames Duncan: AT&T iPhone Unlocking: So Close, Yet So Far
I was super excited to see the news that AT&T would start unlocking iPhones as of April 8th, at least if you were free of your contract obligations. I’m at the point now with my travels where I’ve...
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Bryan Pendleton: Happy Birthday Tom Lehrer
Happy birthday to the greatest mathematician-songwriter of our time!
View ArticleChris Pepper: iTunes error -50 synching iPhone & iPad
Last week I noticed that videos weren't watchable on my iPhone or iPad. I cleared them off and reloaded, but they still didn't transfer successfully. I have seen similar problems before, most recently...
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Ian Boston: PyOAE
For those that have been watching my G+ feed you will have noticed some videos being posted. Those vidoes are of the OAE 1.2 UI running on a server developed in Python using DJango. I am getting a...
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Bryan Pendleton: Comprehending padding oracle exploits
In week 4 of the excellent online cryptography course taught by Professor Dan Boneh, the topics included various attacks, including one called the padding oracle exploit.To reinforce the material, the...
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