James Duncan: Break out the sunglasses as part of a battle plan for jet lag
NASA’s Steven W. Lockley gives the New York Times some advice on dealing with jet lag, a topic I’m all too familiar with. Steven’s main advice deals with managing exposure to light and he advices...
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Steve Loughran: Page Mill Hill Work, T+20
This is me atop Page Mill; photo on Ilford B&W, hand developed:Date? Summer 1992; spending a few weeks in Santa Clara.I've just made it up Page Mill, the bike -my original mountain bike- is...
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Isabel Drost: Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin - August 2012
Despite beautiful summer weather roughly 50 people gathered at ImmobilienScout24 for the August 2012 edition of the Apache Hadoop Get Together (Thanks again for hosting the event and sponsoring drinks...
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Matt Raible: The First Day of School
The first day of school always marks a big change for my family. We have to start getting up early, start our scouting adventures and figure out some sports to play. This year, it seemed to come faster...
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Matt Raible: Comparing Web Frameworks and HTML5 with Play Scala at Jfokus 2012
Stockholm seems a lot like Denver this time of year. Cold, snowy and beautiful. Trish and I arrived in Stockholm (Sweden) on Monday for the Jfokus conference and we're traveling to Madrid today for...
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Isabel Drost: Spotted this morning…
in front of my office: Ever wondered how accurate navigable map data for your Garmin, your in-car navigation system (most likely), or maps.nokia.com are created? One piece of the puzzle is the car...
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Claus Ibsen: Olympics Image Loader powered by Apache Camel
I have been on vacation for 3 weeks during the Olympics. So I missed most of it. Just got back in time for the finals of the football and basketball games on the last days. My vacation was really off...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Are you a holy scroller or card shark?
Oliver Reichenstein compares the scrolling and card metaphors in UI design. I have to say, as much as I like iBooks, I find myself wishing that each chapter scrolled rather than was separated by a...
View ArticleDejan Bosanac: Messaging Anti-Patterns: Part 2
OK, now that you promised that you won’t store your messages in the broker (see part one of this post series), let’s consider one more thing that you should avoid when dealing with messaging systems....
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Hiranya Jayathilaka: Introducing WSO2 Carbon 4.0
Samisa Abeysinghe speaking about the latest release of WSO2 Carbon.
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Jean-Baptiste Onofré: Dell Vostro with Ubuntu: use the AMD Catalyst drivers
I have a Dell Vostro 3550 with Ubuntu 12.04 since around one year now. The laptop worked fine, it was pretty fast, building a lot of projects in the same time, etc. I complained with: the temperature...
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Bryan Pendleton: Backpacking 2012: Rancheria Creek, Hetch Hetchy Reservoir,...
The most important thing a backpacker must do is to pay attention to the weather. When you are out in the wilderness, with only what you can carry, it is essential that you understand what weather you...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Why you can’t taken your unlocked iPhone 4S to another U.S....
CNET's Marguerite Reardon explains how wireless operators have manipulated the market to ensure you can't take your iPhone 4S to any other U.S. carrier you want. Bastards.
View ArticleDavid N. Welton: Simple phone alerts with Gmail and Android
I have some long running server processes that I am going to launch soonish, and I want to be alerted when they're done. Using Gmail and Android, it's pretty easy: In Gmail, set up a new label,...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-08-18
I'm at Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL) (Berlin) w/ 10 others http://t.co/ipaxCTvP # I'm at Red Baron (Berlin) http://t.co/7EUZAsgw # I just became the mayor of SWT Lost Property Office on @foursquare!...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-08-18
I'm at Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL) (Berlin) w/ 10 others http://t.co/ipaxCTvP # I'm at Red Baron (Berlin) http://t.co/7EUZAsgw # I just became the mayor of SWT Lost Property Office on @foursquare!...
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Christian Grobmeier: 5 things I learned from a Hacker attack
Photo taken by lydia_shiningbrightly On Friday evening I got an e-mail from my provider. They told me my webspace was subject of a hackers attack and they would shut it down until they have analysed...
View ArticleJean-Baptiste Onofré: Apache Karaf 2.2.9
The Apache Karaf team is proud to announce a new version on the Karaf 2.2.x branch. The 2.2.9 version is a major bug fixes release. We fixed 52 issues in this release, and we are inline with our...
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Bryan Pendleton: Hard problems, studied over many years
It's not that the easy problems have all been solved; it's just that I'm pleased when there is continued efforts on hard problems sustained over many years. Herewith, some examples: Slate reprints an...
View ArticleDave Johnson: Web Integration Patterns
In my previous post, I promised to write a blog series on Web Integration Patterns. This post explains the concept and a bit about how I plan to write about it. What I’m calling Web Integration...
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