James Duncan: The Acropolis
The Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens For the most part, my eight or so years of university education was spent in architecture school. Like every architecture student, I studied the buildings of...
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The top floor of the Acropolis Museum housing artifacts from the Parthenon The Acropolis Museum (Μουσείο Ακρόπολης) in Athens was designed by architect Bernard Tschumi to serve as a modern home for...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Aperture and its vision wasn’t better under Steve
El Aura responds to Scott Bourne’s linking of Steve’s death to Aperture’s position slipping versus Lightroom. Just because the latter is demonstrably happening doesn’t mean that it started with Steve...
View ArticleJames Duncan: On the Beach
On the beach near Tunis A kitesurfer on the Mediterranean near Tunis Posted by James Duncan Davidson.
View ArticleApache Wicket Community News: Wicket 6.0.0-beta2 released
The Wicket team is proud to announce the second beta release of the Wicket 6.x series. This release brings over many improvements over the 1.5.x series. New and Noteworthy Wicket Atmosphere The Beta 2...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: A Very Short Review of The Hangman's Daughter
By way of the quite-nice Kindle Owners Lending Library, I recently read Oliver Potzsch's The Hangman's Daughter. At least part of my interest in the book was that, at the time, my parents were...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: Goal-line Technology for soccer
Here's a reason to root for a high-scoring England-Belgium friendly this weekend: With Goal-Line Tech, Soccer Tries Kicking Its Addiction to Human Error, since if the game should end 0-0, it's not...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Preparation done - clock is ticking
The clock is ticking - only one more weekend to go before Berlin Buzzwords opens its doors for the main conference (check out the Wiki for the Sunday evening Barcamp and the Sunday Movie Hackday)....
View ArticleSergey Beryozkin: RESTful Data Updates with Talend Studio
I created a presentation few months ago which showed how one can create a simple DB browser for exploring the arbitrary databases using Talend Open Studio for ESB.The Customers DB explorer we created...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: Sanger on Stuxnet in the NYT
The New York Times is running quite the bombshell article today: Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against IranMr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and...
View ArticleChris Hostetter: What’s the Big Deal about Big Data? Search!!!
How do you find a needle in a haystack? You Search for it. How do you find a missing pet? You Search for it. How do you look for lost treasure? YOU SEARCH FOR IT!! I could go on but I’m sure you get my...
View ArticleJames Duncan: What should book covers be in the ebook age?
Craig Mod argues for what he calls Kindle first design, noting that if an ebook cover looks great on the Kindle, it’ll probably also look great in print. He goes on to argue that entire ebooks should...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-02
The #malta singer has stolen http://t.co/VIqA6gPm's glove. #eurovision boom ba ba boom. # Twitter has scoop on E. London air raid siren. Building fire at chemical factory in Greenwich. Pic via...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-02
The #malta singer has stolen http://t.co/VIqA6gPm's glove. #eurovision boom ba ba boom. # Twitter has scoop on E. London air raid siren. Building fire at chemical factory in Greenwich. Pic via...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: Trying to digest Oracle v. Google
So, in the end, what are we to make of Oracle v Google? As Judge Alsup pointed out, "This action was the first of the so-called “smartphone war” cases tried to a jury". It was a major case, litigated...
View ArticleJames Duncan: When almost everything on Earth died
Jason Major writes about the Permian Extinction which killed over 90% of life on Earth: “However, the causes of the killing – global warming, acid rain, ocean acidification – sound eerily familiar to...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Graffiti in Athens
Graffiti in Athens Graffiti in Athens Graffiti in Athens Graffiti in Athens Posted by James Duncan Davidson.
View ArticleChristian Grobmeier: Apache Cocoon 3 in the JavaMagazin
Recently I have received my copy of the latest JavaMagazin. It includes an article on Apache Cocoon 3, describing how it works basically and how you could use it with Apache Struts or Apache Wicket. I...
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