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James Duncan: Lapsing With the Nikon D800
Nikon camera bodies have had a built-in intervalometer for some time now. Given the compute power and automation that exists in digital cameras, it’s a fairly straightforward feature to implement and...
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Bryan Pendleton: Bryan is 50!
That is, Bryan the Nord of Skyrim has now advanced to Level 50. Bryan is also: Thane of Whiterun, Leader of the Companions, Thane of Windhelm, Archmage of the College of Winterhold, Thane of Markarth,...
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My parents go grocery shopping on Fridays.If you're like me, the notion that I would know on Friday what I'm going to have on Thursday is laughable. A nice goal - planning that far in advance, and...
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Bertrand Delacretaz: Open Source Communites are like gardens, says Leslie...
Great keynote by Leslie Hawthorn at Berlin Buzzwords today – here are my quick notes. As with a garden, you need to cultivate your community, it doesn’t just happen. You need to define the landscape –...
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Tim Bish: ActiveMQ-CPP version 3.4.3 released.
Its official, AcitveMQ-CPP v3.4.3 has now been released. This is a bug fix release of the ActiveMQ-CPP client which includes somefixes since the v3.4.2 release. .Some highlights for this release:*...
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Nick Kew: Phone search
I’m looking for a phone worthy of replacing my beloved Nokia E71. My wonderful phone died on Saturday, aged just under three and a half years. Drowned in a pool of rainwater, as I was walking a...
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Bryan Pendleton: Facebook Folly
Facebook's new Folly library looks interesting, but neither their announcement nor the README seem to mention the licensing terms. Am I just overlooking it? If you don't include any license...
View ArticleJames Duncan: The Eagleman Stag, an awesomely poignant stop-motion film
This beautifuly crafted stop-motion short from Mikey Please and narrated by David Cann won the 2011 BAFTA best short anamiation award. You should also check out the making of video. Linked by James...
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Martijn Dashorst: Maven reality TV shows
Tim O’Brien wrote on twitter: We’re starting a reality TV shows to judge Maven plugins, “Maven’s Worst Documented Plugin” I’m playing the part of a cranky Simon Cowell. And this got me thinking about...
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Bruce Snyder: How to Change JDK Version From the Command Line
Today I was trying to figure out how to quickly change the JAVA_HOME environment variable from the terminal using the /usr/libexec/java_home command-line utility. I looked at /usr/libexec/java_home...
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Adrian Sutton: Minimise Configuration
Having configuration differences between development and production is largely unavoidable, but it’s important to keep the number of differences to a minimum to avoid unexpected bugs appearing in...
View ArticleArjé Cahn: Surf’s Up - Come Ride A Wave of Rave
We’re doing some amazing stuff with the Apache Software Foundation – but one of the coolest things is what we’ve been involved in lately is the Apache Rave effort – which has recently been voted a top...
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Bryan Pendleton: Signed and unsigned integers in the C programming language
Nice quiz and accompanying article on John Regehr's blog about the details and intricacies of signed and unsigned integers in the C programming language. This topic has been with us ever since I...
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Matt Raible: School's Out for Summer!
One of the main reasons I started this blog was to document my life. I like writing technical blog posts because it allows me to save knowledge in my brain and open up space for new stuff. It's been a...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: Things I Learned at Hacker Bed & Breakfast
You can spend any amount of money on Scotch, and it keeps getting better A Java instance field that is assigned exactly once via lazy initialization does not have to be synchronized or volatile (as...
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Bryan Pendleton: 72 hours until Euro 2012 begins!
And if you have no idea what I'm talking about, go visit Zonal Marking's wonderful site and start digging through their great set of preview articles: Euro 2012 previews: general themesEuro 2012...
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Matt Raible: Upgrading to Play 2: Anorm and Testing
This time last year, I decided I wanted to learn Scala. I chose the Play Framework as my vehicle for learning and I added CoffeeScript and Jade to the mix. I packaged it all up, learned a bunch and...
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Colm O hEigeartaigh: Transforming Claims and Tokens in the CXF STS
The Security Token Service (STS) shipped with Apache CXF 2.6.0 contains some advanced functionality relating to handling claims, as well as transforming both claims and security tokens. 1) ClaimsValue...
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Bryan Pendleton: Wrapping up the Anand-Gelfand match
While you wait, patiently, for Friday's launch of the Euro 2012 tournament, take a few minutes to reflect on the results of the Anand-Gelfand World Championship. Ken Regan's observation is that, while...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Farewell, Summer
I've written many times of my love of Ray Bradbury. He truly felt like an old friend. I've been reading his stories as long as I can remember reading, and his _Dandelion Wine_ is my favorite book, from...
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