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Christian Grobmeier: Ruby and Jekyll: First steps
I have to admit, I was looking long time at Ruby. I even started to script a few lines and liked it, but I never tried to get really into it. Today I changed mind, as I have a new project upcoming and...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: Synchronized Considered Harmful
New flash: concurrency is hard. Any time you have mutable data and multiple threads, you are just asking for abuse, and synchronized is simply not going to cut it. I was recently contacted by a client...
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Colm O hEigeartaigh: New security vulnerabilities in Apache CXF
Two new security vulnerabilities have been announced in Apache CXF. Those of you using WS-SecurityPolicy should read the announcements carefully to make sure that you are not affected. If these...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Prefixed no more
Firefox 13 for developers: Support for -moz-border-radius* and -moz-box-shadow has been removed. Authors should use unprefixed border-radius or box-shadow instead. See bug 693510 +1
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Bryan Pendleton: Whales and Martingales
Here's an interesting and easy-to-read article by Jonathan Adler about whales and martingales and other interesting behaviors of the high rollers in our modern world. As Adler observes, though, what...
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Chris Hostetter: Look whose Cloud Search product Microsoft Windows Azure...
I’m not sure this is the right analogy so forgive me if I over reach, but Lucid Imagination being invited to play a role on the Windows Azure BIG stage feels a little like the shy high school mathlete...
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Dennis E. Hamilton: Password Security 1: Social Engineering an SHA1 Hack
The use of easily-computed hash values as password authenticators provides piss-poor safety. The prevalence of memorable/weak passwords and their reuse simply compounds the foolishness. Here’s a...
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Chris Hostetter: Search (Business) Rules!
Introduction One of the most frequent requests we get from customers is they want easier ways to express business needs as part of their search infrastructure. For instance, imagine you’re a large...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Economist Tomáš Sedláček’s presentation at TEDxThessaloniki
Tomáš provides a few mental tools for understanding the current state of both the global economy as well as what’s going on in Europe. His comparison of how interest to alcohol is especially...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Your brain develops the negative
Bryan Jones uses a portrait I made of Laura Galloway to illustrate how your brain’s visual system processes negative afterimages caused by the adaptation of photoreceptors in your retina. Science!...
View ArticleOrtwin Glück: [Code] Oracle 11g on Gentoo
I wrote a short guide to install Oracle 11 on Gentoo.
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: Latency numbers every programmer should know
This is interesting stuff; Jonas Bonér organized some general some latency data by Peter Norvig as a Gist, and others expanded on it. What's interesting is how, scaling time up by a billion, converts a...
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Bryan Pendleton: The extra cookie
The wonderful writer Michael Lewis gave the commencement speech at Princeton this year. All of you have been faced with the extra cookie. All of you will be faced with many more of them. In time you...
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Bryan Pendleton: Your Friday afternoon reading list
Here you go, just what you were waiting for :) A nice explanation of why it was rather challenging to build index scans into the Postgres MVCC engine:...
View ArticleJames Duncan: WWDC2012 Rumormongering
The rumors are swirling. New Mac Pros, retina MacBooks, non-retina MacBook Pros, iOS 6, iPhones, Apple TVs, an Apple TV SDK, the retirement of the 17" MacBook Pro, and more. Some of the rumors are the...
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James Duncan: 24TB of Disks in the ReadyNAS Pro
In late 2010, I picked up a ReadyNAS Pro and loaded it up with six 2TB drives, resulting in a usable 8TB volume using X-RAID2 and dual disk redundancy. At the time, that seemed pretty humongous....
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-09
Forgot I was on @virginmedia's hopelessly poor network. Can't even download 1/4 of an HD film from iTunes before traffic management kicks in # Powered by Twitter Tools
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-09
Forgot I was on @virginmedia's hopelessly poor network. Can't even download 1/4 of an HD film from iTunes before traffic management kicks in # Powered by Twitter Tools
View ArticleJames Duncan: Clang: Neal Stephenson’s swordplay Kickstarter campaign
In a nicely crafted video, science and historical fiction writer Neal Stephenson pitches his sword game project. Awesomeness in a box. I’m really interested to see how this one goes. Linked by James...
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Andrew Savory: The Antipope
This review is for: The Antipope (The Brentford Trilogy) (Kindle Edition) 1.0 out of 5 stars Interesting story ruined by poor spelling and typesetting,10 Jun 2012 The story is reasonably entertaining...
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