Justin Mason: Links for 2012-07-28
“Are You Human?” urban intervention, 2009 : turn CAPTCHAs into cut-outs, mount them in the urban environment, and they blend into the tag landscape. This came up after contemplating “artisanal...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Mail is getting complicated again
Originally I used POP3 mail, and the same eddresses at work and at home. Every morning I'd stop my mail server, download everything, put my entire mail tree (Mozilla, then later Thunderbird) on a...
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Michael McCandless: Building a new Lucene postings format
As of 4.0 Lucene has switched to a new pluggable codec architecture, giving the application full control over the on-disk format of all index files. We have a nice collection of builtin codec...
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Bryan Pendleton: Inside the Coursera contract
I've been interested in the various new "online university" projects that are underway: Udacity, Coursera, EdX, etc. This month, the Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting article that looks...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-07-29
The world’s first 3D-printed gun : I wasn’t expecting to see this for a few years. The future is ahead of schedule! A .22-caliber pistol, formed from a 3D-printed AR-15 (M16) lower receiver, and a...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: A little Gotcha with asynch and Streams
I stumbled across a little gotcha using async with Node.js Streams: you can easily corrupt your output if you are not careful. Node.js Streams are an abstraction of Unix pipes; they let you push or...
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Bryan Pendleton: Nice Olympics sailing video
These Elliot 6 meter boats look like they'd be incredibly fun (if a bit wet) to sail around in! Wired magazine has a nice video interview with U.S. contestant Anna Tunnicliffe.
View ArticleIsabel Drost: O’Reilly Strata coming to London
O’Reilly Strata is coming to London. The first edition of Strata back in 2011 brought Big Data developers, designers, scientists and decision makers together to discuss all things scalable. This year...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-07-30
Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco : Troy Hunt, an Aussie software architect working on a .Net security product called ASafaWeb, does a great job extensively deconstructing Tesco’s...
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Brett Porter: OS X Mountain Lion Mail and Smart Mailbox Syncing
Last night, I was reading the Ars Technica review of Mountain Lion, which included the following quote about iCloud: Then there’s debugging. Sure, this is all supposed to “just work.” But when it...
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Chip Childers: Frustrating little nuance when using puppet exec directive
I've been building puppet configuration for CloudStack's Devcloud environment recently, and I ended up spending a ton of time arguing with the configuration. One of the most annoying behaviours that...
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Adrian Sutton: Continuous Integration Requires Integrating Continuously
Sarah Goff-Dupont has a post on the Atlassian blog about how Atlassian is using feature branches and still doing continuous integration:In the not-so-recent past, continuous integration in the context...
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Oliver Wulff: Add End-To-End monitoring to Your CXF application with Open Source
This is the second blog I mentioned here. I'd like to show how to add end-to-end monitoring to your CXF based applications. End-to-end monitoring means that you can follow the message flow which has...
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Asankha Perera: Electronic Invoicing Announced on the AS2Gateway
We've just announced support for electronic invoicing on the cloud based Free B2B Trading Gateway AS2Gateway! This allows users to invoice trading partners via EDIFACT INVOIC messages over AS2, using...
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Matt Raible: Mahalo Kauai
I've heard great things about Hawaii for most of my life. My Dad was stationed at Barbers Point when he was in the Navy. His sister, my Aunt Mary, was born there. My sister and I sent my parents to...
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Bryan Pendleton: Drone pilots in the NYT
You should read this article in the New York Times: A Day Job Waiting for a Kill Shot a World Away. The story spends most of its word-count focusing on the soldiers who operate the remotely-piloted...
View ArticleDejan Bosanac: Messaging Anti-Patterns: Part 1
If you have a hammer everything looks like a nail, right? So we all witnessed that people sometimes try to solve the problem with wrong technology. Heck we probably all did it at one point or another....
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Bryan Pendleton: Serious infrastructure issues
Wow! I hadn't been paying any attention to this story until now: India blackout, on second day, leaves 600 million without power. India’s blackout spread to cover more than half the country on Tuesday,...
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Steve Loughran: Welcome to Chaos
Netflix have published their "Chaos Monkey" code on Github; ASL Licensed. I have already filed my first issue, having looked through the code -an issue that is already marked as fixed.Netflix bring to...
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Isabel Drost: FrOSCon 2012
On August 25th/26th the Free and Open Source Conference (FrOSCon) will again kick off in Sankt Augustin/ Germany. The event is completely community organised, hosted by the FH Sankt Augustin. It covers...
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