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Yoav Shapira: 2012 NCAA Final Four: New Orleans
Earlier in April my dad and I went to the NCAA men's basketball Final Four, as we do every year. It's become our main father-son tradition, something I highly recommend. This year's event was in New...
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Colm O hEigeartaigh: Batch processing in the Apache CXF STS
A previous blog entry covered the ability to renew SAML Tokens in the Security Token Service (STS) in Apache CXF 2.6.0. In this post, we will look at another major new feature in the STS in CXF 2.6.0,...
View ArticleJames Duncan: The Unknown Cappuccino
One of the things I love about Portland is that several of my favorite coffee shops in the world are located within walking distance of where I live—at least if you’re not allergic to walking....
View ArticleJames Duncan: Cesar Harada’s Protei written up in Wired
Cesar Harada quit MIT to develop an open-source, shapeshifting, ocean drone that could potentially help clean up oil spills and remove plastic from the ocean. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
View ArticleRich Bowen: Not a Nook
We have been looking at tablet computers for some time now. While we'd love to have iPads, we just can't justify the expense, no matter how hard we try. Although I know that I will make use of a tablet...
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Bryan Pendleton: Johan Peitz's SuperMario Summary
Johan Peitz's SuperMario Summary game is more interesting as art than as a game, but it's also an amazingly impressive game for a 48-hour development cycle. My favorite part, though, is the post-mortem...
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Michael McCandless: Lucene has two Google Summer of Code students!
I'm happy to announce that two Lucene Google Summer of Code projects were accepted for this summer! The first project (LUCENE-3312), proposed by Nikola Tanković, will separate StorableField out of...
View ArticleJames Duncan: A chat with Hans Rosling at TEDxSummit
On Tuesday afternoon at TEDxSummit, Hans Rosling sat down to talk with attendees. The What Took You So Long peeps were there, captured it on video, and cut together this awesome video. Linked by James...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-28
Finished Walk with @cyclemeter, on Home To Canary Wharf route, time 5:35, 1.64 km, see http://t.co/9SGyleCR, average 3:24. # @siriuscorp and I are looking for linux engineers in the Warwick area for a...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-28
Finished Walk with @cyclemeter, on Home To Canary Wharf route, time 5:35, 1.64 km, see http://t.co/9SGyleCR, average 3:24. # @siriuscorp and I are looking for linux engineers in the Warwick area for a...
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Ben Laurie: Using Capsicum For Sandboxing
FreeBSD 9.0, released in January 2012, has experimental Capsicum support in the kernel, disabled by default. In FreeBSD 10, Capsicum will be enabled by default. But unless code uses it, we get no...
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Tim Bish: ActiveMQ-CPP v3.4.2 Released
Its official, AcitveMQ-CPP v3.4.2 has now been released. This is a bug fix release of the ActiveMQ-CPP client which includes somefixes since the v3.4.1 release. A couple important failover fixes...
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Yoav Shapira: A couple of quick restaurant reviews: Xinh Xinh and Moksa
Xinh Xinh: sketchy-looking place but best pho in Boston. Hat tip to my friend Sam, an Asian food fan, for sharing. Also some really interesting juices you can only get in Chinatown. Moksa: fun,...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Elgato’s new external Thunderbolt SSD drive
Finally, a bus powered Thunderbolt external drive that’s ultra fast and quiet. It’s a bit on the spendy side, but it’s well reviewed by Bare Feats. Give it a bit of time for pricing to improve and more...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Finding Portland
Uncage the Soul Productions took 51 days and shot, produced, and edited together this time-lapse portrait of Portland for TEDxPortland. Reportedly, the video was greeted with a standing ovation when it...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Storm
StormApril 29, 2012From the Sunday ScribblingsNow, the storm has passed,or at least blown away for as long asa afternoon nap lasts,and I have a momentto think uninterrupted thoughts,write one or two of...
View ArticleSam Ruby: WebSocket Demos
W chat implements a shared textarea field across multiple clients. Demonstrates bi-directional communication. diskusage is more typical of my usage. The du command produces tabular output that the...
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Yoav Shapira: Tiesto at Bijou
This post is a bit delayed, but it was such an amazing event that I have to write about it. Bijou is a relatively new night club / lounge in downtown Boston near Chinatown. It's a small venue, which...
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Isabel Drost: Berlin Buzzwords Schedule online - book your ticket now
As of beginning of last week the Berlin Buzzwords schedule is online. The Program Committee has completed reviewing all submissions and set up the schedule containing a great lineup of speakers for...
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