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Hiranya Jayathilaka: How to GET a Cup of Coffee the WSO2 Way: An Article
Since we implemented REST API support for WSO2 ESB (and Apache Synapse), we have received many requests for new samples, articles and tutorials explaining this powerful feature. I started working on an...
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Bryan Pendleton: Go underground!
I'm completely digging these two totally unrelated, yet somehow related, photo essays: Jessica Ball's Hydropower at Niagara Falls: The Schoellkopf Power StationSomewhere under this rubble (and a lot of...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-09-11
Chip and Skim: cloning EMV cards with the pre-play attack Worrying stuff from the LBT team. ATM RNGs are predictable, and can be spoofed by intermediate parties: ‘So far we have performed more than...
View ArticleJames Duncan: The Next Smartphone Revolution
Tomorrow, if all goes as expected, we’ll see the introduction of the next iPhone. Unless the surprisingly large number leaks have pointed us the wrong way, it’ll have a taller screen, somewhat better...
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Henri Yandell: Teaching to program…
Our eldest bundle of joy is nearly 8. The time hath come to distill the zenlike/stoic/cynical/manic art of programming upon said tadpole. Initially I pondered the classics. “Here my boy, this be LOGO,...
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Carlos Sanchez: Puppet for Java developers talk at JavaZone Oslo 2012
I am in Oslo right now speaking at JavaZone about Puppet for Java developers covering some of the basics but then getting into using Vagrant, Puppet and Puppet modules, to manage maven dependencies,...
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Isabel Drost: Moving to a new domain
Executive summary: This is to warn those of you who are subscribed to this blog - the domain to reach this blog w/o redirects will soon change to by isabel-drost-fromm.de - you might want to adjust...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Spotify on Linux
In which I get Spotify to run on Debian Wheezy. I’ve been playing about with Debian’s upcoming 7.0 release, codenamed ‘wheezy’. On the whole, it’s fantastic – booting is fast, GNOME 3 is blisteringly...
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Bryan Pendleton: Load the trebuchets!
Danny O'Brien is trying to comprehend Shinichi Mochizuki's work on the abc conjecture. Now, Danny O'Brien is a very smart guy, so I feel his pain when he writes: I cannot even get a purchase on these...
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Matthias Wessendorf: One year no blogging – Joined JBoss/Red Hat
The title says it all Since August 2012 I am also no longer working for Kaazing, I decided to join the AeroGear team at JBoss/Red Hat. My focus there will be HTML5 and mobile. Stay tuned!
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Bryan Pendleton: When Josiah Whitney climbed Mount Shasta
This is the greatest account of climbing Mount Shasta I've ever read: September 12, 1862: Mount Shasta. When I climbed Mount Shasta, not only was I 17 years old, and had crampons and an ice ax, but we...
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Bryan Pendleton: VMWorld 2012 info
Did you pay attention to VMWorld 2012? I know I sure didn't pay enough attention; there was WAY more informationthan I could digest. If you're still trying to dig out from it all, here's a great...
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J Aaron Farr: Instarepl Improvement
Last time I identified three Instarepl limitations: invisible intermediate results, hidden recursion, and awkwardly located output with no ability for input. In all three cases, something is hidden or...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-09-12
SnapTree benchmarks nice concurrent Map data structure for the JVM; beats out ConcurrentHashMap, ConcurrentLinkedHashMap from guava, ConcurrentSkipListMap under both CMS and G1 garbage collectors....
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Henri Yandell: Greenfoot, first look
I didn’t get very far before the desire to yell idiot emerged. I spend far too much of my time dealing with software licenses to read the following commentary about a GPLv2 application: “The Greenfoot...
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Henri Yandell: Old Thesis code found :)
Greenfoot is somewhat akin to my cruddy thesis code (no surprise, same drivers giving the ideas). So I wondered if I still had the code. Did a search and found it in the following:...
View ArticleDejan Bosanac: Pluggable ActiveMQ Storage Lockers
Shared storage master slave broker topologies depend on successful storage locking. Meaning that only a single broker (the master) is active and use the message database. So far locking was tied to a...
View ArticleJoe Brockmeier: Do We Need an Affero Cloud? Nah.
Donnie Berkholz of RedMonk has argued that the "infrastructure stack" needs an Affero LGPL to prevent the dreaded fragmentation. Do we? I'm not convinced that it's necessary, desirable, or likely to...
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Edward J. Yoon: Fault-tolerance in Hama
Recently, Hama core committers Suraj Menon and Thomas Jungblut are working on Fault-tolerant BSP system. And I am trying to read the source code. Their design describes the new BSP computing system and...
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