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Bryan Pendleton: Fast money has smelt blood
Are you, like me, struggling to figure out what the whole "London Whale" event has been about, racing to try to catch up even as things seem to worsen daily? I'm certainly no expert in this area, just...
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James Duncan: Medina Kittens
Kittens in the Medina of Tunis While wandering around the medina in Tunis—the old historic quarter of the city—we ran across this little bit of cute overload hanging out in a window plotting world...
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James Duncan: Late Night Tunis
The crowd at Le Plug in Le Marsa, Tunisia Despite—or maybe in spite of—political unknowns and rough economic times, Tunisians haven’t lost their grip on how to have a good time. Like many other...
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Bryan Pendleton: Anand-Gelfand game 5: draw
Dana Mackenzie has the translation of GM Sergei Shipov's analysis here. Do you hear the murmurs of discontent in our ranks? The public is worried, it demands decisive games in the world championship...
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Andrew Savory: Dooring
This just happened: And so this just happened: Dear Principal Cullum, I frequently commute by bicycle past your school, traveling down Heath Road toward Weybridge. I have often observed that parents...
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Jacopo Cappellato: Film che ho visto: The River
"The River", la miniserie televisiva dell'autore di "Paranormal Activity", mi ha deluso: puntate autoconclusive e slegatissime l'una dall'altra, ma identiche nella struttura, accomunate dall'unico...
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Jacopo Cappellato: Film che ho visto: The Avengers
The Avengers mi e' piaciuto o, meglio, diciamo che mi ha divertito parecchio (che non e' esattamente la stessa cosa).Ironman, Hulk e, per ovvi motivi diversi, la Vedova Nera sono personaggi riusciti e...
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Bryan Pendleton: Anand-Gelfand game 6: draw
The score is now 3-3, halfway through the scheduled 12 games. As GM Sergei Shipov notes, the whole world is trying to figure out when a decisive game might occur, and how the evolution of the match...
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Chris Hostetter: Lucene Revolution 2012: Presentation slides are now available
Lucene Revolution 2012, held in Boston on May 7-10 was a huge success. The four-day conference began with two days of Lucene/Solr and Big Data training followed by two days of well-received...
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Rich Bowen: Time to disengage
We received the below "Memos from your adolescent" when Z went to his middle school orientation.(Click on the image for the full size.)I have to assume that the person writing this thought they were...
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Rich Bowen: The pirate story, so far
Here's the pirate story, so far:What happens next?
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Chris Hostetter: Solr 4 preview: SolrCloud, NoSQL, and more
The first alpha release of Solr 4 is quickly approaching, bringing powerful new features to enhance existing Solr powered applications, as well as enabling new applications by further blurring the...
View ArticleJames Duncan: In defense of polymaths
Kyle Wiens: “The problem with deep specialization is that specialists tend to get stuck in their own points of view. They’ve been taught to focus so narrowly that they can’t look at a problem from...
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Andrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-19
So far I'm loving CyanogenMod Android Ice Cream Sandwich on the HP TouchPad. WebOS was better, but having more apps is nice. # I got doored cycling to the office today. It hurt. If you're doing the...
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Andrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-19
So far I'm loving CyanogenMod Android Ice Cream Sandwich on the HP TouchPad. WebOS was better, but having more apps is nice. # I got doored cycling to the office today. It hurt. If you're doing the...
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Dejan Bosanac: Conference week wrap-up
I had a blast of a week at CamelOne and JEEConf. Both organized perfectly and awesome crowd all around. CamelOne was packed with FuseSource customers and users with a great feedback on the things we...
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Steve Loughran: Possible Stonebraker Trajectories
In my time I've managed to say bad things about SQL in an email discussion that had the (now officially late) Jim Gray in the CC:. I also faulted the first generation of grid engines for believing the...
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Yoav Shapira: I'm going to travel a bit: #RTW2012
Later next week I'm leaving Boston on a round-the-world (RTW) trip. This blog post contains some initial details, primarily for the benefit of interested family and friends. NASA image I've wanted to...
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Jean-Baptiste Onofré: Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.4
Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.4 has been released. This release is a major release, including a bunch of bug fixes and new features. Here’s the list of key things included in this release. Consistent...
View ArticleCeki Gulcu: Dealing with ignorable errors
In real-world applications assembled out of heterogeneous parts or interacting with systems beyond your control, error conditions are bound to occur. Often times, some of these errors can be safely...
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