Robert Burrell Donkin: Agile: Masters Level
I'm going to be helping out on a MSc course teaching Agile development. Tips, links, comments, advice appreciated.
View ArticleOrtwin Glück: [Code] zeroconf, avahi, bonjour USE flag confusion in Gentoo
There is a bit of confusion about the Zero Configuration technology in Gentoo. I am trying to clear the clouds a bit here. There are two separate implementations of the Zeroconf standard available on...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Apache dinner wrap-up
Today three Lucene committers, two Mahout committers (one of them also being committer of Lucene: Hi Karl, was great having you here - see you at the next Hadoop Get Together, or maybe some day for...
View ArticleBrett Porter: John Smart on Hudson and “The Tools You Should Be Using”
This morning at JavaOne I took the opportunity to catch John Smart’s first talk on Advanced Hudson Usage. Not that I’m thinking of switching, of course I was keen to compare how he handled several...
View ArticleDavid Blevins: EJB.next Interceptor Improvements - Method signatures
Interceptors are great, but some parts of them are odd when applied practically. For as fundamentally reflective as interceptors are, it isn't possible to pass all interceptable calls through a single...
View ArticleEdward J. Yoon: Photos - 2010년 한가위
가는 길과 날씨가 워낙 좋아서 (수도권은 물난리가 났던데 ... ) 사진들도 베리 굿! 출발일부터 오늘 차례 지내기까지의 사진들 몇 장. (내려가던길에 1박은 텐트 야영~)
View ArticleTed Husted
ASF Commits 1,000,000 The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), makers of Apache HTTPD, Apache Solr, and more than fifty other open source products, will today post its one millionth update to the...
View ArticleNick Kew: One million commits
By the time you read this, the commit count in Apache’s main repository will have ticked over the million. I won’t be doing the deed, but someone from Apache’s couple of hundred projects (including...
View ArticleChris Pepper: PC Pro Confusion on iOS vs. Flash & Linux
I read Tom Arah's Apple vs Adobe: some surprising statistics this morning, and was confused by a couple things. First, I guess I'm not surprised that there are more iPhones + iPod touches + iPads than...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: A perfect confluence
Wow! This story has it all!Northern California. CheckBeer. CheckTrappist Monasteries. CheckLeland Stanford. CheckWilliam Randolph Hearst. CheckRebuilding ancient buildings from their dis-assembled and...
View ArticleCommunity Over Code: Apache new(s): officers, projects, commits
A brief roundup of recent Apache news: Congratulations to Yonik Seeley, who made the one millionth commit to the main ASF code repository earlier today by adding a new feature to SOLR: SOLR-2128: full...
View ArticleGuillaume Nodet: Introducing Cade, the Config ADmin Extender
The OSGi Alliance is working on enhancements to the OSGi ConfigAdmin and some of the experimentation have been unveiled by Peter Kriens in a recent blog. The point is I was in need for enhancing the...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-09-22
Mongrel2 Says, “Goodbye Python” : Linux distros ship ancient Python interpreters, hence it’s impossible to rely on recent language features because they won’t be there, making it useless to write code...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: NYT on Oracle
An interesting read. One change here is that whereas before the Oracle sales team could play HP, Sun, Dell and IBM against each other, now you've got a company trying to the complete stack themselves:...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Ninetree Hill
I love Ninetree Hill. 20-25% gradient, some people claim it dates to Roman times (they needed a way to get from Bath over to the port at Sea Mills. It certainly dates back to the Civil War. Brutal on...
View ArticleClaus Ibsen: Apache Camel - Webinars available on demand from FuseSource
If you missed our live webinar sessions covering Apache Camel, they are now available on demand at FuseSource. The "Introduction to Apache Camel", is the webinar which I gave. We start from the...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Apprenticeship patterns (O’Reilly)
A few days ago I finished reading the book “Apprenticeship Patterns” - Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman, by Dave Hoover, Adewale Oshineye. The book is addressed to readers who have the goal...
View ArticleTony Stevenson: Ever wondered what 1 million svn log entries looks like?
Well. wonder no longer. Yesterday, the main ASF SVN code repository passed the 1 million commit mark. Shortly thereafter one of the ASF members enquired as to how he could best grab the svn log...
View ArticleTim Williams: REST and self-descriptiveness
The REST Architectural Style has this constraint called the Uniform Interface. The Uniform Interface Constraint itself decomposes into four constraints and one of those, the self-descriptive messages...
View ArticleOlivier Lamy: Use maven 3 apis in a hudson plugin
Using maven 3 apis in a hudson needs to change classLoader hierarchy as hudson load some old maven artifacts in the parent classLoader.So the solution is to use a child first classLoader.This new...
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