Robert Burrell Donkin: Another Personal Milestone: Six Months In
The start of August marked six months of commercial development with my friends at Hedtek, returning after (in 2010) nerve and tendon issues in my wrist and hand reduced my computer time to zero....
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Sergey Beryozkin: OAuth2 Demo in Talend ESB
Talend ESB ships many interesting, advanced examples demonstrating CXF and Camel in action. The demos attempt to show something interesting, something that one may try to do in the production.JAX-RS...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-08-12
Sting op exposes Andrews over FF Twitter rants – National News – Independent.ie Incredible sting op uncovers the real identity of an anonymous Twitter account posting Fianna Fail gossip: He discovered...
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Nick Kew: Celebrating the Elite
Elitism is a dirty word in the UK today. Well, at least borderline, though far from universally agreed. It is fashionable amongst our politically-correct chattering classes to sneer at anything...
View ArticleJames Duncan: What if social networks just aren’t profitable?
Derek Powazek: “Every community-based site in the history of the web has essentially been a stab at creating a social network. Most of them fail as businesses, with the rare exception of small, lucky...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Our Hero
I woke up again this morning with a story. I don't know where it came from, but I'd like to think it has a certain Bradbury feel to it.Our Hero"Jeremy Finkel?""He's not here.""Michael Cabot.""He's not...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Mark Griffith’s list of things he will and wont miss about...
Mark Griffith has spent the last eighteen months working and living in Bejing with his family and is about to head home to Seattle. What a fabulous life experience, and one that I’ve loved watching...
View ArticleJames Duncan: TEDxSummit: A turning point for the global TEDx movement
TEDxSummit brought together TEDx organizers from around the world to Doha and what happened exceeded everybody’s imagination. Check out this nicely produced two minute clip from the event shot by my...
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Nick Kew: Calling home: fatal?
Was asked if I could help solve a proxying problem this evening. My provisional diagnosis raises a couple of issues of interest, and it would be good to confirm whether my diagnosis makes sense. Any...
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Adrian Sutton: The Myth of Measurable Productivity
Farnam Street Blog holds up a coding competition as evidence that:If you want to make your computer programmers and engineers more effective give them “privacy, personal space, control over their...
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Christian Schneider: Apache Karaf Tutorial Part 7 - Camel JPA and JTA...
Blog post edited by Christian Schneider Practical Camel example that polls from a database table and sends the contents as XML to a jms queue. The route uses a JTA transaction to synchronize the DB...
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Ben Laurie: Verifiable Logs: Solving The “Cryptocat Problem”
There’s been a lot of heat about Cryptocat lately. But not much light. In summary, one side says you can’t trust software you download from the ‘net to not reveal all your secrets, and the other side...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Pixel perfect
John Gruber on the Retina MacBook Pro display: “I can think of almost nothing I have done professionally over the last 20 years that has not been rendered as a matrix of dots. Print design, web...
View ArticleJames Duncan: CSS image-sets support Retina images in Safari 6 and Chrome 21
On the Cloud Four blog, Jason Grigsby talks about the support in the latest Safari and Chrome browsers for Retina images in CSS image sets. Unfortunately, this only works for background images and not...
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Chip Childers: Automatically Building Devcloud Images for Apache CloudStack
In early July, Edison Su introduced the Apache CloudStack (incubating) development community to a project he had been working on: DevCloud. Edison had created a single VM image that can be downloaded...
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Andrew Savory: Unbreaking Lion printing
A few days ago, an update to HP printer drivers was released by Apple. Thinking nothing of it, I went right ahead and downloaded it. Unfortunately this update totally broke printing on my Mac running...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: CoffeeScript Cautions
Over the last couple of months, I've coded nearly all my client-side code in CoffeeScript. I prefer CoffeeScript to JavaScript ... but there are a few things to watch out for. I thought I'd share some...
View ArticleDaniel Kulp: Talend ESB Performance Tuning
I’ve spent quite a bit of time the last several weeks doing some performance tuning and profiling and such on the Talend ESB and decided to share some things I’ve learned. How this all started: Asankha...
View ArticleMatt Raible: New Look and Feel, Designed by Gillen's Army
As part of my 10-year blogiversary, I was hoping to refresh this site with a new look and feel. A few months ago, I contacted my friend Mark Waggoner to see about getting his design help. We promptly...
View ArticleBrian McCallister: Rethinking Some Galaxy Core Assumptions
Galaxy has been very successful, in multiple companies, but I think it can actually be simplified and made more powerful. The first touches on the heart of Galaxy, the second on the often-argued...
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