Isabel Drost: GeeCon 2012 - part 1
Devoxx, Java Posse, Qcon, Goto Con, an uncountable number of local Java User Groups – aren’t there enough conferences on just Java, that weird programming language that “makes developers stupid by...
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Bryan Pendleton: Anand-Gelfand game 7: a win for Gelfand!
Wow! The game started just like all the previous games in which Gelfand had White, but explodes at the end with a marvelous mating net of the Rook and two Knights; at the end, Anand queens his pawn but...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-05-20
Nikola Tesla Wasn’t God And Thomas Edison Wasn’t The Devil : Correcting some egregious misconceptions about an Oatmeal comic regarding Tesla and Edison — explaining some realities about invention,...
View ArticleCommunity Over Code: Shane’s Apache Director Position Statement 2012
The ASF is holding it’s Annual Member’s Meeting this week, where the Membership elects a new board of directors along with other matters, like voting in new Member candidates. I am truly fortunate...
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Bryan Pendleton: Librarianship questions I wonder about...
... include: when a patron wanders into your library and says "I've read everything that Donald Westlake wrote, and I want more. Is there anything else?", do you give them some of those Richard Stark...
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Asankha Perera: Webinar: UltraESB - The Future of Enterprise Integration
Register for our free Webinar on using the UltraESB, on Tuesday the 29th of May 2012. Click Here for more details and to Register!
View ArticleIsabel Drost: GeeCon - Randomized testing
I arrived late during lunch time on Thursday for GeeCon – however just in time to listen to one of the most interesting talks when it comes to testing. Did you ever have the issue of writing code that...
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Claus Ibsen: Flashback of CamelOne 2012 Conference
CamelOne was yet again a really cool and fun conference. I just returned back home, from the 2nd annual CamelOne conference, held in downtown Boston. It was a 2 day packed with great talks with a...
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Claus Ibsen: Flashback of CamelOne 2012 Conference
CamelOne was yet again a really cool and fun conference. I just returned back home, from the 2nd annual CamelOne conference, held in downtown Boston. It was a 2 day packed with great talks with a...
View ArticleChris Pepper: James & Sharon Gerber
Our good friends James & Sharon got married Saturday in Rhinecliff, NY. It was a beautiful day with lovely people. The official photos by Alex Fedorov aren't up yet, but my photos are up (thank you...
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Bryan Pendleton: A fine spring Saturday at Tomales Bay
Setting off at 9:00 AM on a perfect Saturday morning for kayaking on Tomales Bay with my 8-year-old granddaughter: We kayaked up to Shell Beach in Tomales Bay State park, where we took a break to...
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Ruwan Linton: Free Webinar: The future of enterprise integration with UltraESB
AdroitLogic CTO, Asankha Perera is presenting the first of a series of webinars on UltraESB, on 29th of May 2012, at 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT.The session will cover most of the basics and the ground for...
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Bryan Pendleton: Anand-Gelfand game 8: Anand wins to level the score
Well, I guess that yesterday's result has awoken the world champion, as today Anand won in an almost-inconceivable 17 moves! It seems that the players moved into un-prepared opening territory quite...
View ArticleChris Pepper: MC Frontalot
As a Hannukah/Christmas present, Amy took me to see MC Frontalot at Knitting Factory Brooklyn. We were impressed by Schaffer the Darklord, fled the unintelligible noise of Math the Band, and didn't...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Bryan Jones’ annualar eclipse photos
Bryan Jones headed deep into south central Utah to make some awesome photographs of the recent annular eclipse, including a perfect ring of fire image. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
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Adrian Sutton: Joho the Blog » Will tablets always make us non-social consumers?
I thus think (= hope) that it’s a mistake to extrapolate from today’s crappy input systems on tablets to a future of tablet-based couch potatoes still watching Hollywood crap. We’re one innovation away...
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Bryan Pendleton: Comparing the Coursera and Udacity Cryptography classes
Over the spring, I worked my way through two online cryptography classes: Professor Dan Boneh's course, hosted at CourseraProfessor Dave Evans's course, hosted at UdacityTaking both classes was not a...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: GeeCon - TDD and it’s influence on software design
The second talk I went to on the first day was on the influence of TDD on software design. Keith Braithwaite did a really great job of first introducing the concept of cyclomatic complexity and than...
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Ben Laurie: Factoring RSA
Apparently I have not blogged about factoring weak RSA keys before. Well, I guess I have now One thing I’ve been wondering ever since that research was done is: is there anything OpenSSL could do about...
View ArticleFeatherCast: Episode 77: Mentoring Apache OpenOffice
Last week I spoke with Ross Gardler about mentoring Apache OpenOffice. Here’s my interview. Rich: I’m speaking with Ross Gardler, who is one of the mentors on the Apache OpenOffice Incubator project....
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