Justin Mason: Links for 2012-07-16
Science funding doesn’t add up – The Irish Times : ‘[Science Foundation Ireland] said it was continuing to support basic research, but there are a number of leading scientists here who were refused...
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Uwe Schindler: The Policeman’s Horror: Default Locales, Default Charsets, and...
Time for a tool to prevent any effects coming from them!Did you ever try to run software downloaded from the net on a computer with Turkish locale? I think most of you never did that. And if you ask...
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Asankha Perera: UltraESB Automates AS2/EDI Based B2B Trading for SKB Europe
We've just published a new case study on how SKB Europe, a leader in high-quality aluminium and plastic cases and boxes, has deployed the UltraESB as an AS2/EDI integration platform for...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Note to self: Clojure with Vim and Maven
Steps to get a somewhat working Clojure environment with vim: Install the current vimclojure plugin. Get and install a nailgun client. Add vimclojure to your clojure project pom.xml. Start the nailgun...
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Bryan Pendleton: The Coursera Tsunami
As his institution announces its enrollment in the burgeoning Coursera consortium, Professor Dick Lipton of Georgia Tech offers some thoughts about how Coursera might play out for GT. Are we as...
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Openmeetings Team: OpenMeetings Hosting Services
Price for the hosting service consists of two parts: the hosting itself and additional OpenMeetings services.We do not have our own data center, so you can rent a server from some provider yourselves,...
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Bryan Pendleton: Good enough for GitHub
Great article from the team at Netflix about the power of open source techniques to improve their overall development process: Open Source at Netflix. In particular, I love this quote: we’ve observed...
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Christian Grobmeier: Zen Programming: The Path Of Ruin
Today I was working on the “The Zen Programmer” book. While writing about the reasons we should practice Zen Programming, I remembered something one of the CEOs of a pretty big company said to his...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Need your input: Failing big data projects - experiences from...
A few weeks ago my talk on “How to fail your big data project quick and rapidly” was accepted at O’Reily Strata conference in London. The basic intention of this talk is to share some anti-patterns,...
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Bryan Pendleton: Perforce 2012.2 has entered beta testing
I'm excited that the next release of the Perforce server is now available for beta testing. I was pleased to be able to contribute to this release in several ways, and I'm quite looking forward to...
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Steve Loughran: Defending HDFS
It seems like everyone is picking on HDFS this week.Why? Some possibilities There are some fundamental limitations of HDFS that suddenly everyone has noticed.People who develop filesystems have noticed...
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Sergey Beryozkin: Advanced queries involving multiple entities
As I've mentioned a number of times, FIQL can help with expressing the advanced search conditions in a compact and easy to understand syntax.The queries like "find all the books published before a...
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Sergey Beryozkin: CXF Log Browser Demo
A Log Browser demo has been available in the CXF distributions for more than a year now. This demo is based on the brilliant contribution from Thomasz Opanovicz done as part of his GSOC project.What I...
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Christian Grobmeier: Shell fails in social media
After reading, please look at my note at the end of this page. It is no secret that I am supporting Greenpeace while they fight against Shell to drill the arctic for oil. Since the disaster in the...
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Uwe Schindler: Use Lucene’s MMapDirectory on 64bit platforms, please!
Don’t be afraid – Some clarification to common misunderstandingsSince version 3.1, Apache Lucene and Solr use MMapDirectory by default on 64bit Windows and Solaris systems; since version 3.3 also for...
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Bryan Pendleton: Some Dallas phone numbers are not Dallas phone numbers
Here's a short, well-told programming story about when a Dallas phone number is not actually a Dallas phone number: Confessions: The Phone Number.
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Bryan Pendleton: Postcards from the high end...
These two items are not really related, but consider them two postcards from the high-end of database-y things: Firstly, Amazon rolled out this week what they call their "High I/O" instance...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-07-19
udev – How do I change the keymap of a single device (Logitech presenter)? – Ask Ubuntu : nifty, udev lets you remap USB “keyboard” gadgets randomly. this may be handy for my new cheapo USB foot...
View ArticleCommunity Over Code: OSCON presentation: Managing Community Open Source Brands
I recently presented a session in the Business track this year at OSCON 2012 about Managing Community Open Source Brands. My slides are posted here. Looking back on the slides now, I’m finding that my...
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Bryan Pendleton: Solomon's Oak: a very short review
Over the spring, I read a very enjoyable book by Jo-Ann Mapson named Solomon's Oak. My mother says she loves reading books that are set in places she knows, or has lived in, or is currently visiting....
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