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Paul Querna: Adoption of TLS Extensions
TLS extensions expand the SSL/TLS protocols. The extensions have many uses, like adding more features, supporting more scalable patterns or making the protocol more secure. However, adoption has been...
View ArticleJames Duncan: → America becoming more like those that want to be us
Anand Giridharadas writes for the New York Times: “When the gaps between people—which are universal—fuel envy and resentment more than aspiration and striving, then America has started becoming like...
View ArticleJames Duncan: → All new Kindle Fire models are ad-supported
Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tables comes with something that makes me immediately not interested in purchasing one: Advertising. I get that the ads let them keep the price low, but it’s fascinating (and...
View ArticleJames Duncan: → Bret Hartman interviewed by Strobist
David Hobby interviews LA-based photojournalist Bret Hartman about his portrait of human rights activist Chad Griffin. Bret was been part of our photo team at TED2012 and TEDGlobal 2012 and it’s...
View ArticleJames Duncan: → Bryan Jones photographs Bonneville Speed Week 2012
Bryan Jones headed out to the salt flats for Speed Week again this year and brought back a nice crop of photos to share. I gotta make it one of these days...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-08
I just ousted @mick_n3 as the mayor of BP on @foursquare! http://t.co/4bF10xxe # @sil @dreid you can have a funding model *and* allow license-payers to view from overseas, for a start … and for...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-08
I just ousted @mick_n3 as the mayor of BP on @foursquare! http://t.co/4bF10xxe # @sil @dreid you can have a funding model *and* allow license-payers to view from overseas, for a start … and for...
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Bryan Pendleton: One year ago
... I gave up membership in my adult soccer league, and stopped playing soccer regularly. I really miss playing soccer, but I was no longer able to continue playing in that league. Most of the players...
View ArticleFrancesco Chicchiricco: Apache Syncope 1.0.1-incubating (Espressivo) released
After the 1.0.0-incubating, the first maintenance release is made available by the Apache Syncope team. The release is available here. See release notes for more details.Original post blogged on...
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Hiranya Jayathilaka: Turning Over a New Leaf
Last month I said good bye to a fantastic career at WSO2. I joined WSO2 on April 2009 as a Software Engineer and worked my way up the ladder to become a Senior Technical Lead. Most of my time at WSO2...
View ArticleJames Duncan: → Try something that scares the hell out of you
Steve Streza spent Labor Day weekend putting together a mashup of Gangnam Style by PSY with LMFAO, Dev, the Offspring, and Bloodhound Gang: “The whole time my brain was fighting me to stop, to give up,...
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James Duncan: Calm Lake
You would never know by looking at this scene that there was a wild party with around 300 people eating, conversing, and dancing right behind me. I was sitting at a table talking with old friends when...
View ArticleJames Duncan: → Dessa on selling and owning digital material
Rapper, singer, and lyricist Dessa writes about how tricky it is to sell a product that can be duplicated for free and makes a comparison to Monsanto’s practices: “When we try to force new technology...
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David Reid: Concrete 5 – Add Block to page_type
When writing the page_type template it’s possible to embed to areas using the standard area code, $a = new Area('area_name'); $a->display($c); Using the Defaults option on the Dashboard / Page Types...
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Bryan Pendleton: A post full of follow-ups
You know how I dig follow-ups, so here's a grab bag of them... Goetz Graefe follows up one of the most famous system design principles: Gray and Putzolu's rule for trading off memory and I/O: The...
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James Duncan: On the Water Around Santorini
Santorini, also known as Thera, is an archipelago of islands around the remains of a volcanic caldera in the southern Aegean Sea. It’s the site of the Minoan eruption—one of the largest volcanic...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: FrOSCon - on teaching
The last talk I went to during FrOSCon was Selena’s keynote on “Mistakes were made”. She started by explaining how she taught computer science (or even just computer-) concepts to teachers herself -...
View ArticleFabio Martelli: OpenJPA Configuration Extension
Yes, Apache OpenJPA is really extensible! Recently, working on a library of OpenJPA's pluggable components providing support for Microsoft SQLAzure, I needed to add some new configuration parameters....
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J Aaron Farr: Instarepl Limitations
Light Table is a exciting experiment to build an IDE featuring pervasively direct-manipulation. In the process of trying out its Instarepl, I experienced three noteworthy limitations: invisible...
View ArticleJames Duncan: → Neven Mrgan’s Portland food recommendations
For those of you that might find yourself in Portland and want a bite. One of these days, I need to compile my own list, but Neven’s short list is a great one. (via @xoxo)
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