Isabel Drost: Speaking at ApacheCon EU 2012
I’ll be at ApacheCon EU in November. Looking forward to an interesting conference on all things Apache that is finally returning back to Europe. Go there if you want to learn more on Tomcat, Hadoop,...
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Dave Johnson: WIP: Widgets and Gadgets
This is the fifth in my series of Web Integration Patterns. Check out the intro at this URL http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/web_integration_patterns Synopsis Allow other web sites and...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-09-15
Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database [PDF] Abstract: Spanner is Google’s scalable, multi-version, globally-distributed, and synchronously-replicated database. It is the first system to...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Some thoughts on a conf taxonomy
One common way for open source developers to meet face-to-face is to attend conferences relevant to their subject of interest. A common way to have one near you if there ain’t none yet is to go and...
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Henri Yandell: Language chosen
Thinking on the ‘what to teach eldest’, I went back to the first principles. Many of those reading learnt BASIC first because it was the core building block to the machines we were using. It wasn’t the...
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Henri Yandell: First session complete
Hour 1 of teach a nearly 8 year old to program finished. We discovered the basics of HTML, described our game inside a <p> tag and watched Daddy create a JavaScript example of the random Football...
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Steve Loughran: My Hadoop-related Speaking Schedule
I'm back from the US, where I had lots of fun getting the HA HDP-1 stuff out the door -I know about Linux Resource Agents, and too much about Bash -though that knowledge turns out to be terrifyingly...
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Bryan Pendleton: The unfriendliness of software
John Battelle and Scott Hanselman wonder about software: AM I AN OUTLIER, OR ARE APPLE PRODUCTS NO LONGER EASY TO USE? I spent a few more fruitless hours trying to find another solution on the web....
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Nick Kew: Technology FAIL
After the weekend’s high of singing Mahler, it was down to Earth with a bump today, as I found myself doing battle with the Macbook and Apple’s UK operations. It started when it didn’t start, so to...
View ArticleJames Duncan: → Nikon D600 shipping five days after announcement
The camera world of late has been full of announcements of cameras that are coming... soon. The new Leica M is coming next year. The Canon EOS M was announced in July and will hopefully be shipping in...
View ArticleJames Duncan: → Adam Savage’s keynote at XOXO
Adam Savage from the Mythbusters wrapped up the XOXO Festival this last weekend talking about making things, the lengths that people will go to in order to make the things they want, culture as...
View ArticleJames Duncan: → Successful crowdfunding puts pressure on entrepreneurs
Jenna Wortham looks at the changing landscape of crowdfunding as projects get more money than ever before and backers start realizing that they aren’t buying off of Amazon.
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Bryan Pendleton: A crypto grab-bag
A bunch of otherwise unrelated stuff, with the common thread(s) that: they're interesting stories, and they have to do with cryptography of various sorts. Professor Ed Felten talks about the need for...
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Lars Heinemann: Upcoming webinar on Fuse IDE 2.1
I will present Fuse IDE 2.1 in a webinar at 25th of September. This webinar will be held in German language. It will cover the creation, editing and deployment of Camel Routes using Fuse IDE 2.1 and we...
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Ioannis Canellos: A command line interface for jclouds
PrologueI've been using and contributing to jclouds for over a year now. So far I've used it extensively in many areas and especially in the Fuse Ecosystem. In all its awesomeness it was lacking one...
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Bryan Pendleton: Click and Drag
Randall Munroe does it again! Prepare to spend the next hour of your life exploring Click and Drag
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Yoav Shapira: Last week was busy but fun
Quick recap of last week, which ended up being slightly busier than planned, and as usual, made awesome with stellar company. Went to the new Belly wine bar / gastropub in Kendall Square on Monday with...
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Colm O hEigeartaigh: SOAP Action Spoofing Attacks on Web Services
A recent paper by Christian Mainka, Juraj Somorovsky and Jörg Schwenk at the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security of the Ruhr University Bochum, describes an open-source tool that can be used to...
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Ben Laurie: Compression Violates Semantic Security
There’s been quite a lot of noise about the still not-fully-disclosed CRIME attack on TLS recently. But, fully disclosed or not, I think we can say with certainty that it turns out that compression is...
View ArticleJames Duncan: iMessage Gets Smarter
In the small but lovely improvements department, iMessage support in iOS 6 and OS X 10.8.2 seems to finally smooth out many of the rough edges that it has sported since arriving last year. The ability...
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