Arjé Cahn: Is Responsive Design Too Much Response And Not Enough Design?
At Hippo we’re certainly seeing the explosive growth of companies investing in delivering content to multiple devices. And, while we mostly think of smartphones – it’s not just those devices that are...
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James Duncan: TEDxThessaloniki
Athena Labrinidou on stage at TEDxThessaloniki At TEDxSummit last month, I made friends with TEDx organizers from all over the world who invited me to their events to see what is happening. Two of...
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Michael McCandless: Finite State Automata in Lucene
Lucene Revolution 2012 is now done, and the talk Robert and I gave went well! We showed how we are using automata (FSAs and FSTs) to make great improvements throughout Lucene. You can view the slides...
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Bryan Pendleton: Anand-Gelfand Game 3: Draw
But far from a boring draw! GM Sergei Shipov concludes his comments about game 3 as follows: The Champion reacted extremely successfully to the Challenger's prepared idea in the opening, seized the...
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James Duncan: Thessaloniki Docks
Sunset behind the Port of Thessaloniki, one of the largest ports on the Aegean Sea Posted by James Duncan Davidson.
View ArticleDavid Reid: Banking on Trust
I last wrote about our experiences with HBOS in This is not the bank you want, but tonight has proved that things really could get worse. Towards the end of April we opened a new account with Halifax...
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David Reid: Your choice, your reputation
Earlier in the year we ordered made to measure curtains from Laura Ashley. They quoted 7 weeks delivery but arrived 5 weeks after our order and have been exactly what we wanted. Following this...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-05-14
Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers – YouTube : ’some portions of the experience, such as the sky, may be replaced by personalised advertising.’ Uploading your consciousness in the age...
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Bryan Pendleton: Somewhere in the swamp between Art and Sport ...
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Edward J. Yoon: 급발진은 불가능하다.
요즘 급발진 뉴스가 많던데 .. 이거 정말 가능할까? 스로틀이 와이어식인건 기계 결함없는 급발진이 아예 불가능하고, 그래 전자식인 경우는 소프트웨어 버그로 RPM 급상승이 가능은 해보인다. 근데 그와 동시에 브레이크가 동작 안 한다는건 상식적으로 이해가 안가는 부분. ECU라는게 컴퓨터 PC처럼 모든 기능을 중앙관리하는게 아니고 윈도우 미러나 브레이크 등...
View ArticleBrian McCallister: Learning to Code
Rewinding my career a ways, I want to weigh in on the Learn to Code debate as a non-programmer who coded. I am a professional programmer now, but my previous career was teaching English in High School...
View ArticleSimon Willnauer: Spatial Solr Plugin 1.0-RC4
I am pleased to announce the latest release of our Spatial Solr Plugin, v1.0-RC4. This release is a backwards compatible with RC3, and contains the following changes: PDF documentation has been...
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James Duncan: Cloudscape
A cloudscape from one of my recent flights here, there, and yonder Posted by James Duncan Davidson.
View ArticleSimon Willnauer: Finite State Automata in Lucene
Lucene Revolution 2012 is now done, and the talk Robert and I gave went well! We showed how we are using automata (FSAs and FSTs) to make great improvements throughout Lucene. You can view the slides
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Bryan Pendleton: Anand-Gelfand Game 4: Draw
This game seemed quite similar to game 2, in my naive eyes. Sometime later today, Dana MacKenzie should have the translation of GM Sergei Shipov's coverage on his blog. While you wait, you can content...
View ArticleChristian Grobmeier: Exception Handling in jQuery Event Handlers
Today I had a problem with my upcoming Time & Bill mobile client: I want to throw an exception from an event handler. For example: // Inside a constructor $('.x').live("click", this.stuff); My...
View ArticleJukka Zitting: JAAS authentication and OSGi
I was looking at how to best do JAAS-based authentication in an OSGi environment, but didn’t really find much useful material, so I’m sharing my findings here in the hope that others will jump in and...
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Nick Kew: The Wrath of God?
France’s new president Hollande hit by lightning on his first day in office! I hope he’s a good atheist. The world will come to terms with his politics and vice versa, but a paranoid president would...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Presentation shortening
In an effort to make more room for more talks in our schedule for this year’s Berlin Buzzwords we’ve asked quite a few people to shorten their presentation from 40min down to 20min. The thought behind...
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