James Duncan: → The perils of pointless Eurozone pain
Paul Krugman on what’s going on over in Europe in the New York Times today: “Shaving an extra couple of points off the structural deficit will make very little difference to long-run solvency, nor will...
View ArticleJames Duncan: → How the Internet will/could (one day) transform government
Clay Shirky rocked it at TEDGlobal 2012 in a talk that connected Open Source, Git, politics, and democracy. “A new form of arguing has been invented in our lifetimes, in the last decade, in fact. It's...
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Henri Yandell: Two more sessions
Last night I introduced the eldest to gameQuery, and more importantly game design. We created a background and clouds for some parallax scrolling, then created a hero with animated legs who could be...
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Brett Porter: An opportunity to get our Apache Maven book (or another ebook)...
Packt Publishing, the publishers of Apache Maven 2: Effective Implementation, are celebrating having published 1000 books with a special over the weekend. They’re giving away one free ebook to everyone...
View ArticleTed Leung: Strange Loop 2012
I think that the most ringing endorsement that I can give Strange Loop is that it has been a very long time since I experienced so much agony when trying to pick which talks to go to during any given...
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Ian Boston: Node.js vs SilkJS
Node.js, everyone on the planet has heard about. Every developer at least. SilkJS is relatively new and creates an interesting server to compare Node.js against because it shares so much of the same...
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Christian Grobmeier: 5 ways how a recruiter can **** me off
I get called from recruiters on a regular basis. It just happened right now which motivated me to collect my thoughts on IT recruiting – something on my to-do list for a while. To be honest, like many...
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Michael McCandless: Lucene's new analyzing suggester
Live suggestions as you type into a search box, sometimes called suggest or autocomplete, is now a standard, essential search feature ever since Google set a high bar after going live just over four...
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Andrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-29
@ozten done … https://t.co/RIlWJw1Q Struggling to reproduce; possibly a combination of new user and/or network issues? # @tomiahonen I think your gut is wrong. 3 big OS platforms in smartphones in...
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Andrew Savory: Books 7
Two months on from the last list. Much time on trains has meant much time reading, hence the list is already long. Temeraire by Naomi Novik: a gunpowder mix of fantasy and historical epic. I was not...
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Nick Kew: Dealing with text and phone spammers.
The good news: two text spammers to be fined. Probably wholly inadequate, but better than nothing, especially in terms of sending a message. The bad news: this is such a rare event as to be...
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Nick Kew: Online shopping coming of age
I’ve just taken delivery of a new phone, to replace the one that drowned. A similar model, but I won’t dwell on that in this post. What impressed me today was the delivery. It wasn’t cheap. The...
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Nandana Mihindukulasooriya: Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC)...
In this post, I plan to provide some background about open source efforts around Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Lifecycle (OSLC) and summarize the information we have gathered about OSLC...
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Colm O hEigeartaigh: XML Signature Wrapping attacks on Web Services
The previous blog post looked at SOAP Action spoofing attacks on Web Services and discussed a recent security advisory in this area in Apache CXF. This vulnerability was uncovered with the help of the...
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Nandana Mihindukulasooriya: Bugzilla Web Service and Java client libraries
Bugzilla is a popular "Defect Tracking System" or "Bug-Tracking System" from Mozilla Foundation that allows projects to keep track of their outstanding bugs. Bugzilla provide a remote API in the form...
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Rich Bowen: Authors
I've had the rare good fortune to meet many of my favorite authors. Notably, Douglas Adams, Arthur C Clarke, and, a few weeks ago, Terry Brooks. I've also met Cory Doctorow, Mo Willems, Will Wheaton,...
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Yoav Shapira: A running shoe update
A brief note for the runners in my readership, and for my own record. Last weekend I replaced my previous running shoes, the Adidas "Adizero Feather 2.0s," due to wear and tear. They are a great...
View ArticleDavid Reid: Media to my Ears
How many digital media files do you have? Hidden away in the darkest corners of the hard drive or on dusty external hard drives, there are probably more than you remember. All those CD rips, poor...
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Ben Laurie: What Is SHA-3 Good For?
Cryptographers are excited because NIST have announced the selection of SHA-3. There are various reasons to like SHA-3, perhaps most importantly because it uses a different design from its...
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