Francesco Chicchiricco: Apache Syncope 1.0.0-incubating (Espressivo) released!
After 7 months of work the Apache Syncope team is proud to announce the final release of the first stable version since entering the Apache Incubator. This release took a bit more than expected because...
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Yoav Shapira: #rtw2012 recap (first thoughts)
Whew, that was fun! Just another Friday night / Saturday morning at Fabric (London) Almost four months ago, back in May, I left on a round-the-world (rtw) trip. I landed back in the US a couple of days...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Open Source Meetup Berlin
This evening the (to my knowledge first) Berlin Open Source Meetup took place at Prater (Bier-)garten in Berlin. There are lots of project specific meetings, a monthly Free Software meeting, quite some...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Jump to tabs in Safari
One of the major annoyances of Safari over Chrome and Firefox is that you can’t quickly jump to a specific tab in the browser. For example, in both Chrome and Firefox you can hold down Command-1 to...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-08-19
1024cores Some good algorithms and notes by Dmitry Vyukov on ‘lockfree, waitfree, obstruction-free synchronization algorithms and data structures, scalability-oriented architecture,...
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Claus Ibsen: Introduction to Fuse ESB Enterprise Video
We at FuseSource have created a 5 minute video that shows a rundown of some of the highlights of the new Fuse ESB Enterprise release. The video can be freely played from vimeo (no registration etc.)...
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Matt Raible: Refreshing Taleo's UI with HTML5, Twitter Bootstrap and CSS3
Back in December, I wrote about what I've been working on at Taleo. Shortly after finishing up the Profile Picture, Talent Card and Org Chart features for TBE, I spent two weeks doing page speed...
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Bruce Snyder: Agile and DevOps, A Perfect Match
Through the years in my career, I have spent a fair amount of my time advising customers on agile software development. Having practiced various agile software development methodologies since the late...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Video: “Accessing Hadoop data with HCatalog and PostgreSQL”
Manuel Meßner, Stephan Friese, Dr. Stefanie Huber: “Accessing Hadoop data with HCatalog and PostgreSQL” from David Obermann on Vimeo.
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Bryan Pendleton: Reuters blogs outage continues
From what I can tell, the Reuters blogs are now entering their fifth consecutive day of outage, apparently due to the second major security problem of this month. Reuters had no immediate information...
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Asankha Perera: AdroitLogic Announces API Management Solution Based On Its...
We've just announced the APIDirector! an API and Services management solution based on our high performance Enterprise Service Bus UltraESB. One of the key differences of the APIDirector is that it...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Why your passwords have never been weaker
Dan Goodin writes for Ars Technica about why passwords have never been weaker: “The ancient art of password cracking has advanced further in the past five years than it did in the previous several...
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Bryan Pendleton: Ready Player One: a very short review
One of my summer relaxations this year was Ernest Cline's Ready Player One. Ready Player One is somewhere at the intersection of science fantasy, nerd humor, and romance. It's full of jokes and puzzles...
View ArticleChristian Grobmeier: Intercept Ajax requests with Angular.js
Angular.js is a great framework for developing JavaScript applications. I have recently started to migrate one of my applications to it and I am impressed how much of my code can simply go to trash....
View ArticleJames Duncan: Amazon Glacier shakes up long term archival data storage
I’ve currently got a bit over 10TB of image data to maintain and, to date, cloud based archival hasn’t been cost effective. With a cost of $0.01/GB per month, however, the new Amazon Glacier archival...
View ArticleJames Duncan: AT&T iPhone Unlocked, Finally
Last April, I was super excited to see that AT&T would start unlocking iPhones for use with 3rd party SIMs on international networks. There was only one catch: you had to be free of your AT&T...
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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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Michael McCandless: Lucene's new BlockPostingsFormat, thanks to Google Summer...
Another summer wraps up, another successful Google Summer of Codeproject finished in Apache Lucene! We had two projects this summer; here I'll describe Han Jiang's project (I was his mentor). The...
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Chip Childers: CloudStack's March to an Official ASF Release
Joe Brockmeier announced this over on the CloudStack Blog: A quick update on the Apache CloudStack (incubating) 4.0 release plan. As proposed last week on the cloudstack-dev mailing list, the release...
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Ian Boston: Massively Online
In mid 2008 during the Sakai conference at Paris amongst the early summer european heat and the over friendly crowding of the Paris Metro I was involved in a small group of friends who had the idea...
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