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Piergiorgio Lucidi: Packt Publishing reaches 1000 books
Packt Publishing would like to celebrate the 1000th book with all of you.
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Henri Yandell: Out loud thinking
It’s interesting the things that are frowned upon for a child to obsess over and the things that are considered holy. Computers and TV are evil. Reading a lot used to be more frowned on (this article...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Note to self - link to 3D maps
After searching for the link the third time today - just in case I happen to be again looking for Nokia’s 3d maps: http://maps3d.svc.nokia.com/webgl/index.html is the non-plugin link that works in...
View ArticleFrancesco Chicchiricco: Windows Azure SQL Database sharding support for...
Federations in Windows Azure SQL Database are a way to achieve greater scalability and performance from the database tier of your application through horizontal partitioning. One or more tables within...
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Steve Loughran: PUE, CO2 and NYT
The NY Times has published an article "exposing" the shocking power wasted in a datacentre. It's an interesting read, even if their metrics "1.8 trillion gigabytes" take work to convert into meaningful...
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Yoav Shapira: #rtw2012: San Francisco
This is one in a series of posts about my recent round-the-world (RTW) trip, all collected under the #rtw2012 label. You may wish to read them in order for context and background. San Francisco was the...
View ArticleChris Pepper: 4th Street NiteOwls at Barbes, 2012/09/20
Gavin played clarinet with the NiteOwls tonight. Photos Videos going up as I post them Diga Diga Do Jack I'm Mellow Honeysuckle Rose Breakin' the Ice Crazy 'bout my Baby Making Whoopie Have a Little...
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James Duncan: A Small Detail from Pyrgos
After all my blather about iPhones and carriers of late, I looked at my blog and noticed all the photos had rolled off the front page. That’s no good. Here’s a close up of a church in Pyrgos on the...
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James Duncan: Caldera Sunset
Sometimes I get almost blasé about sunsets—at least making photographs of them. After all, it’s a popular subject that’s been tackled a million ways from Sunday. And yet, every once in a while, I’ll...
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Bryan Pendleton: Data center power efficiency
There's been quite a flurry of reactions to this front page story on yesterday's Sunday New York Times: Power, Pollution, and the Internet: Industry Wastes Vast Amounts of Electricity, Belying Image....
View ArticleJames Duncan: → The iPhone 5 display under the microscope
My friend Bryan Jones puts the latest iPhone 5 under the microscope to compare it with the Retina display in the iPhone 4.
View ArticleJames Duncan: → Adobe Source Code Pro font released
Paul D. Hunt announces the release of Adobe Source Code Pro, a new monospace font for coding in. I’m currently giving it a try and my first impression is quite favorable. We’ll see how it goes over time.
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Bryan Pendleton: Yosemite Hantavirus investigations continue
The underlying causes of this summer's Hantavirus outbreak in Yosemite National Park are still unclear. This short summary article outlines the current state of affairs: Scientists hunt for cause of...
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Matt Raible: AppFuse News: GitHub, Hibernate Search and The Future
It's been a while since I've written anything about AppFuse, but since the project has had quite a bit of activity lately, now seems like a good time.GitHubFirst of all, we moved the source code from...
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Carlos Sanchez: Puppet Module of the Week: maestrodev/maven – Maven...
This is a guest post I wrote in the Puppetlabs blog for their Module of the Week program about the MaestroDev/maven module we created. Module of the Week: maestrodev/maven – Maven repository artifact...
View ArticleJoe Brockmeier: CloudStack 4.0 Release Schedule Update
It's been a while since we've had an update on the Apache CloudStack (incubating) 4.0 release, so let's take a look at where we're at. One of the biggest blockers to the release has been making sure...
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Hiranya Jayathilaka: Busting Synapse and WSO2 ESB Myths
Paul Fremantle, PMC chair of the Apache Synapse project and CTO of WSO2, has written a very interesting blog post addressing some of the myths concerning Apache Synapse and WSO2 ESB. As of now both...
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Christian Schneider: Karaf Tutorial Part 1 - Installation and First application
Blog post edited by Christian Schneider - "Fixed some typos" Getting Started With this post I am beginning a series of posts about Apache Karaf. So what is Karaf and why should you be interested in...
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Bryan Pendleton: Online networking class
I happened to notice that Stanford Online is offering an interesting class this fall: An Introduction to Computer Networks It focuses on explaining how the Internet works, ranging from how bits are...
View ArticleJoe Brockmeier: Announcing the CloudStack Collaboration Conference
We're pleased to announce the first CloudStack Collaboration Conference, to be held in Las Vegas at The Venetian from November 30th through December 2nd. We're now accepting proposals for talks at the...
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