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Bryan Pendleton: It's not just a game ...
... it's a role model for people trying to design learnable software: This is about how these two universes should collide and that means what I’m really talking about is gamification. There’s a reason...
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Jacopo Cappellato: Film che ho visto: Halloween
Film di John Carpenter del 1978 che ha ispirato (e forse iniziato) il sottogenere degli slasher e di fatto ne fissa tutti gli stereotipi: un pazzo omicida perseguita e massacra, uno dopo l'altro, dei...
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Tom White: Volcanoes!
I've just finished reading "Super Volcano: The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park" by Greg Breinin. Despite the hyperbolic title, it's a really good introduction to the subject....
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-05-10
FF Chartwell : OpenType font to display charts/graphs using ligatures. ‘Designed by Travis Kochel, FF Chartwell is a typeface for creating simple graphs. Driven by the frustration of creating graphs...
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Bryan Pendleton: Hulk! SMASH!
What, you haven't seen The Avengers yet? What are you waiting for? It's great! Mark Ruffalo is superb. The Iron Man movies always made me squirm because Robert Downey Jr. was just a bit too...
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Claus Ibsen: Looking at the impressive first Apache Camel release
In preparation for the CamelOne conference next week, I took time to look back in the history of the Apache Camel project. So among others I had a look at the first official 1.0 release of Apache...
View ArticleJustin Mason: In Dublin? Hear me talk about AWS network monitoring!
Reminder to Dublin-based readers — next week, Amazon (my employers) will be putting on Under the Hood at Amazon, billed as ‘A night of Beer, Pizza and Cloud Computing for Software Developers’. I’ll be...
View ArticleCommunity Over Code: Apache projects are technically independent
In the earlier essay I wrote on Apache project independence (since promoted to an article on the Apache Community Development website) I missed a critical bit of independence that I think we should add...
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Bryan Pendleton: Anand-Gelfand game 1: draw
If you are following the games, don't mess around: go directly to Grandmaster Sergei Shipov's commentary at the always-wonderful Chess in Translation site.
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Yoav Shapira: 7 (!) quick restaurant reviews: Woodward, Trade, Lone Star Taco...
You know I'm really far behind in my blogging backlog when I need to cram multiple restaurant reviews, normally one of my favorite blogging topics, into one quick post. And yet, the past month or so...
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Bryan Pendleton: Stuff I'm reading on a Friday afternoon
A couple interesting things to keep you at your computer on a warm spring day! Kathie Nichols and Van Jacobson's recent article in ACM Queue has spurred a lot of interesting discussion. Here's some of...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-12
Just changed my tyre in the car park. It was a race to see if I would finish before the jack sunk into the tarmac. http://t.co/kRI3x9pH # Powered by Twitter Tools
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-12
Just changed my tyre in the car park. It was a race to see if I would finish before the jack sunk into the tarmac. http://t.co/kRI3x9pH # Powered by Twitter Tools
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Bryan Pendleton: Anand-Gelfand game 2: draw
Sergei Shipov feels that Anand equalized with 14. ... Nf6. Meanwhile, Vinay Bhat, one of the strongest local players in my area, provides a nice preview article with his thoughts, and several other...
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Yoav Shapira: Recent fav music
The past couple of months, partially thanks to a new friend, I've been listening a little less to my usual techno + trance work (although I didn't fully stop ;)), and a little more to some alt + indie...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-05-12
Chronon DVR for Java : “record entire execution of your Java app; play it back on any machine”. Other features: time-travelling debugger — step backwards, jump to any point in execution, designed for...
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Yoav Shapira: Run For Your Lives outdoor 5K race
On Saturday, May 5th 2012, also known as Cinco de Mayo, I ran an outdoor obstacle race, the "run for your lives" zombie 5K. It was a blast. I don't actually like running that much, since I find it...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-05-13
An IDE is not enough : Very thought-provoking response to that ‘Light Table’ demo which went round the aggregators a couple of weeks back. ‘The fundamental reason IDEs have dead-ended is that they are...
View ArticleBrian McCallister: Java URL Handlers
There are two ways to register your own URL scheme handler in Java, but they both kind of suck. The first is to set a system property to a list of packages, and then name subpackages and classes...
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Jacopo Cappellato: Film che ho visto: To Rome With Love
Temo di aver sbagliato sala ed essere finito in quella in cui proiettavano un film dei Vanzina.
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