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Hiranya Jayathilaka: WSO2 API Manager 1.0.0 Goes GA
Last Friday we released WSO2 API Manager 1.0. It is the result of months of hard work. We started brainstorming about a WSO2 branded API management solution back in mid 2011. Few months later, in...
View ArticleDavid Reid: Concrete5
Over the past few days I’ve been looking at Concrete5 CMS. It’s an interesting system and appears to offer features that should make it far easier to use than other systems. The inline editing of...
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Jukka Zitting: Dublin Core archaeology
Triggered by a question from Stefane Fermigier, I did some digging in the archives of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI). The question was why the Dublin Core terms for different dates use...
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Gary Tully: ActiveMQ - multiple kahaDB instances (mKahaDB) helping reduce...
The default store implementation in ActiveMQ, KahaDB, uses a journal and index. The journal uses a sequence of append-only files to store messages, acknowledgements and broker events. The index holds...
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Bryan Pendleton: MVCC theory
If you're one of those people who is fascinated by the internals of concurrency control algorithms, here's some fun new references that you might enjoy. I recently came across a great new paper from a...
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Jay D. McHugh: Litter is also where cat(egories) put all their s**t...
In the quest to be able to store information about any collection (regardless of what it is a collection of), we began by trying to determine the necessary generic data structures.When we left off - we...
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Bryan Pendleton: Mumbling
We went to see The Dark Knight Rises. It's an extremely enjoyable film, very well executed, and everything is top-notch: acting, writing, music, visuals, costumes, you name it. Fun from start to end....
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Jochen Wiedmann: Maven is groovy!
Recently, I had another one of those cases where Maven almost does the right thing, but not quite. Let me explain the use case:I've got a software component that can initialize the database from an SQL...
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Bryan Pendleton: Some boats in a race
It keeps getting shifted around by takedown notices, so it may not be HERE or HERE for much longer, but if you haven't already seen Irish comedian Francis Higgins deliver his commentary on the women's...
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Mukul Gandhi: XSD 1.1 assertions with complexType extensions
I thought, it would be good to write this post here and sharing with XML Schema folks.There was an interesting debate on xmlschema-dev list recently, where we argued that what is the benefit of...
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Jochen Wiedmann: Maven and property files
After so many years (since 2004, indeed when the first version of Maven 2 was still in development), I am still learning new stuff every day. For example, so far I was always specifying properties in...
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Christian Grobmeier: Create a business on Mars!
Mars has come near! I am a Software Developer. The Mars was always my favorite planet (besides Saturn and Pluto). Not because I am much interested in astronomy. It is because I have played Zak...
View ArticleStefane Fermigier: New blog engine
This blog has a new blog engine, the fifth one since I've started blogging in 1997. 1997-1999: Homebrewed Python engine I wrote my first blog engine in Python. IIRC, it was a client-server system using...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-08-09
“In Which The Irish Invent Twitter in 1984″ A fascinating story of 1980s tech history — ‘The initial Text Tell PX-1000 was developed by Text Lite Ltd. in Ireland in the early 1980s, probably in 1983....
View ArticleJames Duncan: NASA research links extreme summer heat events to global warming
New statistical analysis by scientists at NASA show that land areas are now much more likely to experience an extreme summer heat wave than they were a half century ago.
View ArticleJames Duncan: Why things take longer than you plan for
The planning fallacy is at everything always takes longer than you plan for, even when you plan for it taking longer. We all know it, yet we keep falling for it, time after time. (via @brainpicker)
View ArticleJames Duncan: A world without coral reefs
Roger Bradbury takes a pretty alarmist view in the Times on coral reefs, saying: “by persisting in the false belief that coral reefs have a future, we grossly misallocate the funds needed to cope with...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-08-11
Eating my weight in awesome cake and drinking a gallon of proper tea. (@ Taubenhof Gut Cadenberge) http://t.co/Ua22LZKS # Just posted a photo — http://t.co/QgI8XJJf # I'm at Amadys (Stade, Lower...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-08-11
Eating my weight in awesome cake and drinking a gallon of proper tea. (@ Taubenhof Gut Cadenberge) http://t.co/Ua22LZKS # Just posted a photo — http://t.co/QgI8XJJf # I'm at Amadys (Stade, Lower...
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James Duncan: Banking with Simple
For quite some time, I’ve been expectantly waiting for Simple—the “we’re not a bank, we’re a front end for banks” financial platform—to launch. They’re taking on an industry ripe for some serious...
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