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Bryan Pendleton: Groan
On our walks with the dog, my wife thinks that I spend rather much time obsessing about the details of the various waterbirds that frequent the shoreline.She thinks that I am overly concerned about the...
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Yoav Shapira: UNC at Duke (college basketball game) March 2012
During the past year I started working on my "bucket list" a little more aggressively than in the past, for a variety of reasons I won't go into here. As a basketball fan, one of those bucket list...
View ArticleJames Duncan: How to make a human arabesque
The amazing intro film for TEDxSummit has an even more amazing backstory. Check out this behind-the-scenes view into how it was made. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
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Bryan Pendleton: MovieMimic considered clever
I'm taken by the clever website http://www.moviemimic.com.I'm not sure who the fellow is behind it, but he's got a very clever idea: as he travels around the world, he takes the opportunity to have his...
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Bryan Pendleton: ONS 2012
Depending on who you listen to, or sometimes just on what time of day you listen to them, Software-Defined Networking is either the biggest thing to hit the computing industry in years, or just the...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Second steps with git
Leaving this here in case I’ll search for it later again - and I’m pretty sure I will. The following is a simplification of the git workflow detailed earlier - in particular the first two steps and a...
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Piergiorgio Lucidi: Apache ManifoldCF 0.5-incubating released
We are proud to announce that the latest version of Apache ManifoldCF is released. Apache Community and Apache Incubator signed off on the 0.5-incubating release.
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Colm O hEigeartaigh: Note on CVE-2011-1096
A new attack on the XML Encryption standard has recently emerged and is described by the security advisory CVE-2011-1096:Tibor Jager, Juraj Somorovsky, Meiko Jensen, and Jorg Schwenkdescribed an attack...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Berlin Hadoop Get Together (April 2012)- videos are up
Sebastian Schelter: Introducing Apache Giraph for Large Scale Graph Processing Dr. Falk-Florian Henrich: Applying Compiler Technology to Event Stream Processing Dr. Mikio Braun: TWIMPACT: On Real-Time...
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James Duncan: Να εύχεσαι νάναι μακρύς ο δρόμος
Katerina Biliouri reciting Ithaca on stage at TEDxSummit 2012 in Doha, Qatar TEDxSummit 2012 has concluded and we’re all spreading out back across the globe after gathering over seven hundred amazing...
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David Reid: This is not the bank you want
It’s been one of those days again. We had a lot of small tasks to do while in town this afternoon and the 2 hours we had was always going to be a short time, but with some fast walking a spot of luck...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-04-23
First Music Contact – Music3.0 : ‘We talk a lot about what the world of music and artists will look like five or ten years from now. But for changes to happen then, the conversations need to happen...
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Bryan Pendleton: All Valve, all the time
Everybody knows I dig Valve. After all, for 6 months I couldn't talk about anything but the game. But they're a quite interesting place for a number of reasons, and recently they've been in the news...
View ArticleSimon Willnauer: Indexing your Samba/Windows network shares using Solr
Many of JTeam's clients want to search the content of their existing network shares as part of their Enterprise Search infrastructure. Over the last couple of years, more and more people are switching...
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Chris Hostetter: What is the big deal about BIG DATA?
There was a video that came out a few years ago called “Did you Know”? If you haven’t seen it, you can check it out on YouTube. I would strongly recommend it. The premise of the video is that...
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Bryan Pendleton: I should have known this, but didn't
I didn't realize that every time I highlight a passage on my Kindle, Amazon is keeping track of the fact that I did so.
View ArticleSam Ruby: Wunderbar on Rails
W Usage: add wunderbar and nokogiri to your Gemfile and run bundle install. Template extensions supported are _html and _json. Examples: view, layout, json. Note that as Rails layouts and views are...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-04-24
Don’t discount the value of price comparison sites – The Irish Times : Conor Pope recommends home-saver.ie and bonkers.ie for insurance and utilities price comparison. I’ve used the latter, with great...
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Ian Boston: Vivo Harvester for Symplectic Elements
I’ve been doing some work recently on a Vivo Harvester for Symplectic Elements. Vivo, as its website says, aims to build a global collaboration network for researchers. They say National, I think...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Hans Rosling’s shortest TED Talk
Hans Rosling was at TEDxSummit and gave this short little talk during an interview out on the promenade. Spontaenous moments like this filled last week. I’m so happy that somebody recorded this. Linked...
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