Colm O hEigeartaigh: Apache WSS4J 1.6.7 released
Apache WSS4J 1.6.7 has been released. The release notes are available here. The main features of the release are:A critical fix for a concurrency bug in the MemoryReplayCacheSubject DN Certificate...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: Notstop looking
We found a few hours the other night to watch Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Have you seen it? You should. The movie, like the book before it, is extremely divisive: you may despise it. As Jon...
View ArticleHeshan Suriyaarachchi: Apache Airavata 0.4-INCUBATING Released
The Apache Airavata (Incubating) team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Airavata 0.4-INCUBATING release.The release can be obtained from the Apache Airavata download page -...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Data Scientists - researchers’ persectives
“Data scientist” as a term has caught quite some attention as of late (together with all the big data, scalability and cloud hype). Instead of re-hashing arguments seen in other sources I thought it...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-08-03
High-frequency trading: The fast and the furious | The Economist “The NYMEX panel found that Infinium had finished writing the algorithm only the day before it introduced it to the market, and had...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-08-04
Olympic perspective: crowds of happy, excited families getting off trains at London Waterloo this morning on the way to sporting events #fb # My training last week: 20 workouts for 54.64 mi and 3663...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-08-04
Olympic perspective: crowds of happy, excited families getting off trains at London Waterloo this morning on the way to sporting events #fb # My training last week: 20 workouts for 54.64 mi and 3663...
View ArticleBrian McCallister: What is Galaxy?
At Ning, in 2006, Martin and I wrote a deployment tool called Galaxy. Since that time I know of at least three complete reimplementations, two major forks, and half a dozen more partial...
View ArticleAdam Jack: Domains too ‘simple’? Note to self: @Hover tweets != @Hover action
I recently migrated some domains to Hover, in part ‘cos I’d heard “good things” about them on the TWiT network. The first was my guinea-pig migration, and they flubbed it, but I was hopeful and I gave...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: It's not just a game ...
... it's a new type of management structure. Your weekend long form reading is this article by Yanis Varoufakis of Valve, examining Valve's corporate culture from the economist's perspective: Why...
View ArticleJeremy Quinn: Getting going [Flickr]
sharkbait posted a photo: Brixton Splash 2012 is just starting up. At the moment it is all mellow Reggae sounds, celebrating Jamaica's 50th. Looking down Electric Avenue, the smoke from all the street...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: Knight Capital Group, continued
The ongoing saga of Knight Capital Group continues to unfold. Four full days have passed since whatever-it-was happened on Wednesday morning, and plunged Knight Capital into this severe crisis. But...
View ArticleJeremy Quinn: Throng [Flickr]
sharkbait posted a photo: Brixton Splash 2012 is well underway. A lot more mellow than last year. Met lots of friends, had a great time. Looking up Coldharbour lane from Rushcroft Road. The crowd...
View ArticleJeremy Quinn: Welcome to the Brixton Olympics [Flickr]
sharkbait posted a photo: The Olympic Torch Relay passing through Brixton
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: Turtles all the way down
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter apparently was able to capture a picture of Curiosity descending to the Mars surface. That means, if I understand it correctly, that this is a picture taken by a...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-08-06
French illegal downloads agency Hadopi may be abolished According to recent statistics, Hadopi has sent 1 million warning emails, 99,000 “strike two” letters and identified 314 people for referral to...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: Kaspersky profile
Two weeks ago, Wired Magazine ran an article by Noah Shachtman: Russia’s Top Cyber Sleuth Foils US Spies, Helps Kremlin Pals. The long and detailed article sparked a response from Kaspersky on his...
View ArticleBrett Porter: Rover, Olympics and Social Media
Like a large portion of my Twitter feed, I was glued to the Curiosity Rover landing. I had a particular appreciation for the technology involved, and the achievement of those involved in engineering,...
View ArticleChristian Grobmeier: Apache Logging log4j 2.0-alpha1 released
The Apache Logging team is pleased to announce the Apache log4j 2.0-alpha1 release! Apache log4j is a well known framework for logging application behavior. Log4j 2 is an upgrade to Log4j that provides...
View ArticleChristian Grobmeier: JavaMagazin: Apache log4j 2.0
The german JavaMagazin just published my new article on Apache log4j 2.0, which has been published as an alpha version recently! If you are able to speak/read german, check it out! It highlights not...
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