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Bryan Pendleton: A troubling article on scientific careers
In this weekend's Washington Post: U.S. pushes for more scientists, but the jobs aren’t there: Michelle Amaral wanted to be a brain scientist to help cure diseases. She planned a traditional academic...
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Steve Loughran: Nobody ever got fired for using Hadoop on a cluster
Over a weekend in London I enjoyed reading a recent Microsoft Research paper from Rowstron et al., Nobody ever got fired for using Hadoop on a cluster.The key points they make areA couple of hundred GB...
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Ioannis Canellos: Apache Karaf meets Apache HBase
IntroductionApache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google's Bigtable. If you are a regular reader most probably you already know what Apache Karaf...
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Openmeetings Team
Community member Daniel Asher has created a survey to find out how people are using OpenMeetings.You can fill it out online:...
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Bryan Pendleton: Various database topics
I was very hopeful when I started looking at this article: Why the days are numbered for Hadoop as we know it, but the article turns out to promise much more than it delivers. It starts out promising...
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Sergey Beryozkin: How to test CXF JAX-RS endpoints
Users have been asking during the last couple of years how to test CXF JAX-RS endpoints. One of the users from the CXF community would always point to either a blog entry or paste a code example...
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Sergey Beryozkin: JMS Transport support for CXF JAX-RS clients
I blogged about the support for JMS by CXF JAX-RS endpoints two years ago.The main reason behind making the JAX-RS frontend (associated by most users with supporting HTTP-based communications)...
View ArticleChristian Grobmeier: Upgrading an EC2 instance from m1.micro to something bigger
Time & Bill has grown. I have started with an m1.micro instance from Amazon AWS EC2 which was available for free for one 1 year. But now these period is ending and I have considered to stay or to...
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David Nalley: A Runbook for CloudStack
Documentation is one of those vital things that any software, but especially open source software needs to be successful. When anyone can come along and download your software and use it, you suddenly...
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Bryan Pendleton: GSoC 2012: halfway there!
We've reached the midway point in this year's Google Summer of Code. The student with whom I am working, Mohamed Nufail of the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka, has been working with the Apache...
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Hiranya Jayathilaka: WSO2 API Manager Permission Model: Controlling What...
Most API management solutions segregate their user base into two main categories – API providers (creators) and API consumers (subscribers). Depending on the group to which a user belongs, the system...
View ArticleSam Ruby: utf8mb4
Jacques Distler: Remarkably, even after a decade of such pain, Unicode is, in 2012, still “cutting edge.” Ouch.
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Johannes Geppert: Struts2 jQuery Plugin new version 3.3.2 provides now...
The new Version 3.3.2 of Struts2 jQuery Plugin is now available. Tree with Checkboxes This release is not only a bugfix release it brings also some usefully new features to you. One of the new...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-07-10
Sean Sherlock to science researchers: “see ya! don’t let the door hit you on the way out” : “In relation to the possibility of losing skilled people overseas, any vibrant research ecosystem will see...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-07-11
Don’t waste your time in crappy startup jobs : 7 reasons why working for a startup sucks. Been there, done that — I wish I’d read this years ago. It should be permalinked at the top of Hacker News....
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Bryan Pendleton: Tips for security conference week
I love these tips from the SpiderLabs team at Trustwave as we head towards security conference week in Las Vegas (BlackHat and DEF CON). "3-2-1" will help you survive and is easy to remember: 3 hours...
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Jay D. McHugh: A litter is a bunch of cat(egorie)s...
For some reason, I started thinking about organizing a bunch of 'anything'. That probably grew out of my previous post about what programming is - but I can't be sure.There are thousands of apps that...
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Hiranya Jayathilaka: API Life Cycles with WSO2 API Manager
One of the key API management challenges that we're trying to address in WSO2 API Manager is governing the API life cycle. Once you have developed, tested and published an API, you need to maintain it....
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Oliver Wulff: Add Failover and Load balancing to Your CXF application with...
In the next blogs I'd like to describe how easy it is to add other enterprise features to your existing CXF based applications. My previous blogs were always very focused on security. The enterprise...
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Rob Weir: Accounting for Vendor Lock-in
I am not an accountant. However, as a Graham and Dodd value investor over the years, I’ve picked up some of the fundamental principles. A key one is the Matching Principle, that revenues and...
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