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Olivier Lamy: Use maven 3 apis in a hudson plugin
Using maven 3 apis in a hudson needs to change classLoader hierarchy as hudson load some old maven artifacts in the parent classLoader.So the solution is to use a child first classLoader.This new...
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Danny Angus: Note to self, how to install apc
Want to install apc on CENTOS or RHEL?REad this: http://www.agileapproach.com/blog-entry/howto-install-pecl-apc-cache-centos-without-xampp
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-09-23
why James Gosling left Oracle : 1. made him take an effective pay cut; 2. removed decision authority on Java; 3. he felt Oracle was “ethically challenged”. also: ‘he felt the hand of Larry Ellison in...
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Bryan Pendleton: Was there a Java conference this week?
Apologies in advance: this is a pretty snarky essay. But I'm just stunned.As we all know, this was the week of Oracle OpenWorld.And, since Oracle now owns Java, they folded the old JavaOne conference...
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Bryan Pendleton: Android Hacking
Here's a great story about hacking on an Android phone: I totally got to hotwire a phone battery with a sliced-open USB cable while reflashing it with leaked firmware.The article makes several related...
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Nick Kew: Pimp my business
Just had another spam ‘phone call to ask whether I’m considering selling the business. This is clearly not someone who knows anything about the business, let alone wants to buy. They’re just working...
View ArticlePaul Querna: Random thoughts from the trenches
A random list of thoughts from my last few years of fighting in the trenches of technology and startups. Avoid burnout at all costs. I am only starting to realize how burnt out from work I was after I...
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Tim Bish: Apache.NMS.Stomp v1.4.0 released.
The Apache.NMS.Stomp 1.4.0 Release bundle is now available. This release is based on the Apache.NMS API v1.4.0 and runs on .NET frameworks 2.0+, .NETCF 2.0+ and Mono 2.0+.Changes in this version...
View ArticlePaul Querna: Cassandra Token Selection
At a high level Apache Cassandra uses a hash ring based on a MD5 of the Row Key to determine where the first replica of data lives inside the cluster. What I am discussing about here is mostly only...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Microsoft Outlook (Not Responding)
I'm rebooting a VM as outlook is -as is often the case- not responding. Whoever wrote it had some assumptions about locking or synchronisation which just don't hold up now that you can sync your email...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: 35 in a million
On Wednesday, the Apache Software Foundation reached the milestone of a million commits of code to the Apache subversion code repository. Tony asks "ever wondered what 1 million svn log entries look...
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Bryan Pendleton: Contrastive Reduplication
Everyone needs a linguistics lesson from time to time.At my old job, we used to have certain discussions:"How's that project going?""Pretty good, I guess.""Well, I need to know: are you done?""Uhm, do...
View ArticlePaul Querna: Who are you writing code for?
Brice started a meandering discussion with his post a few weeks ago, Some random thoughts on programming, which spawned a lengthy thread on Reddit. Much of the discussion was focused on “good”,...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Are devs contribution to OSS happier?
When talking to fellow developers or meeting with students it happens from time to time that I get the question of why on earth I spent my freetime working on an open source project? Why do I spend...
View ArticleSam Ruby: New Dawn
I’ve delayed posting this as I wasn’t sure what was OK to post and what was not, but during the second week of this month my son deployed to Kirkuk Regional Air Base where is will be maintaining radar...
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David Blevins: Interceptor Advisor Pattern
Your standard CDI/EJB Interceptor example uses a logger as an around advice. Generally this gives you an interceptor that looks like so: @Log public class LoggingInterceptor { private...
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J Aaron Farr: Fun, Learning, and Artificial Intelligence
What started out as a guest lecture for a Cognitive Science class became a sort of talk show of all sorts of exciting and fun things going on in IA these days with about tons (about 50) video clips....
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Yoav Shapira: Restaurant review: Sandrine's Bistro
Last night Alli and I had dinner at Sandrine's to celebrate the 23rd, our monthly date night. Given its location in Harvard Square, we'd passed by Sandrine's many many times. It never looked quite...
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Nick Kew: The retro farce
Today we will finally see an end to the Miliblair and Milibrown show. Or rather, to the first act thereof. And I think I’ve decided which of the candidates I’d vote for, if anyone asked me. There are...
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