Andrew Savory: The Germans take renewable energy seriously – Guardian
The Germans take renewable energy seriously – Guardian (via Danny Yee’s blog – Pathologically Polymathic): Germany’s renewable energy revolution leaves UK in the shadeThe country expects renewables to...
View ArticleDavid Reid: How not to upgrade
Linux Mint doesn’t like the Ubuntu method of upgrading. They tell you all the bad things that can happen and why they think nuking your partition is a far better idea in their upgrade instructions. In...
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Claus Ibsen: FuseSource/Camel intro seminar in Copenhagen this week
Redpill Linpro, a FuseSource partner, is hosting a seminar on integration with Apache Camel, and the FuseSource products. The event takes place in Copenhagen, on thursday june 14th at 8:30 to 11:30....
View ArticleIgor Galić: Three Books
I recently finished reading the third book within just a few days – one of which I started reading almost a year, the other, about six months ago. So long as my memory is still fresh, I would like to...
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Bryan Pendleton: Unbroken: a very short review
Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit: Three Men and a Racehorse was a massive worldwide hit, and became a movie hit as well. It took her seven years to write her next book: Unbroken: A World War II Story of...
View ArticleIgor Galić: Hire Me, I’m not an idiot.
<jMCg> Since I only do admin stuff for Java, I am perfectly oblivious of how bad it is. <zwoop> lucky you <zwoop> it's actually not bad, it's just a really bad idea to only teach...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-06-11
Many Niches » Blog Archive » On Working At Amazon : (catching up on old posts) good article from a recent hire, discussing some unusual aspects of the corporate culture (tags: amazon culture work)...
View ArticleJames Duncan: WWDC2012 Keynote Thoughts
Today’s keynote was classic Apple. A report of the latest high-level numbers illustrated with cute Keynote animations followed by the three main acts of announcements of new laptops, Mountain Lion, and...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Marco Arment on the half-assed Mac Pro “update”
Marco: “If you wanted to kill a product line, an “update” like today’s would be a good way to clear out parts and keep selling to a few desperate buyers for a bit longer without any real investment.”...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Gruber’s three takeaways from the WWDC2012 Keynote
John Gruber’s thoughts on the keynote, including this thought on the new MacBook Pro: “I have a review unit from Apple, and after just 15 minutes or so trying it out, it’s damn impressive. Much like...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Using a unified photo library with iPhoto and Aperture
Information in Apple’s support pages about using the new unified library in iPhoto 9.3 and Aperture 3.3. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
View ArticleChristian Grobmeier: Todays experiment: Ruby on Rails on a shared hosting...
Before you spent too much time on this text: I have not managed to complete it. Maybe you have an idea, but I failed. With GIT arriving, 1und1 (1and1) has decided to give SSH access to its users. They...
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Ben Laurie: Venison and Chestnut Stew
Cooked this last night, it was pretty yummy. onion bacon venison (not sure what cut, we used a casserole mix from here) flour carrot celery red wine chicken stock bouquet garni garlic chestnuts jelly...
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Bryan Pendleton: Dig deep for knowledge
There's nothing better than finding articles that look deep into the complex details that underlie modern software. I love it when somebody takes the time to really study and then describe something in...
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Steve Loughran: HDP released -and what it took to get there
This week the Hortonworks Data Platform has launched -to ship on Friday. I've been working with it for a while, and I'm really excited about the launch and seeing that it's getting to real people's...
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Ian Boston: Is ORM So bad?
ORM gets a bad name, and most of the time it deserves a bad name. It produces nasty horrible queries that don’t scale and lead to dog slow applications in production. Well that’s not entirely fair....
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-06-12
I’ve been playing the same game of Civilization II for almost 10 years. This is the result. : Epic Reddit post. “Parallels to ‘1984′ off the top of my head: 3 superpowers, a “communist” leadership in...
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Nick Kew: Refugee
Today I am, in a very minor way, a refugee. Sitting in John’s sofa, with the laptop, hoping to get some work done. Once again, there are building works at home. Last Wednesday a gang of workmen...
View ArticleOrtwin Glück: [Code] No more list of bugfixes in Java release notes
Looking at the release notes of JDK 1.6.0_33, there is a notable difference to previous release notes. There is much noise about all the security bugfixes. But the usual list of fixed bugs along with...
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Heshan Suriyaarachchi: Running a simple MPI job on Ranger
Let's consider running a simple MPI job on Ranger [1]. The MPI program considered here will be a hello-world program.1) Write a hello world application in C. #include <stdio.h>#include...
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