James Duncan: → Lightroom 4.2 ships
Adobe pushes Lightroom 4.2 out the door with lots of bug fixes and support for new cameras. One feature that’s missing however is support for Retina displays.
View ArticleJames Duncan: → The story of airline baggage tags
Slate covers the humble modern airline baggage tag: “The modern tag is known as an automated baggage tag, and was first tried by many airlines in the early 1990s. Perhaps the earliest airline to...
View ArticleJames Duncan: → Why Polaroid was the Apple of its time
In Wired: “It’s easy to forget now, but instant camera maker Polaroid once matched the mythos—and ubiquity—of Apple. Much like Steve Jobs, founder Edwin Land was single-minded in his determination to...
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Heshan Suriyaarachchi: How to start the Airavata with MySQL backend
Airavata is running using Apache Derby as the backend database by default. You can use MySQL database instead of default derby database. Following post describe $subject.1. Create a new user called...
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Heshan Suriyaarachchi: Run a workflow on Ranger using Airavata
This post will show you how to run a workflow on Ranger [1] using Apache Airavata.Applies to : Airavata 0.5-SNAPSHOTCheckout and build Airavata1. Checkout the source from the svn trunksvn co...
View ArticleJames Duncan: → Lloyd Chambers calls the images from the D600 sensational
The money quote: “If the Nikon D600 sensor is the same Sony 24MP sensor to be delivered in the Sony RX1, then the RX1 might be a runaway hit with the best image quality per pound on the market.”
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Andrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-10-06
@tko i'd change infrastructure. behaviour will always revert to type, but segregated cycling facilities mean behaviour doesn't matter. # Excellent coffee and gossip with @SteveALee … nice chance to...
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Andrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-10-06
@tko i'd change infrastructure. behaviour will always revert to type, but segregated cycling facilities mean behaviour doesn't matter. # Excellent coffee and gossip with @SteveALee … nice chance to...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Washing dishes and muzzling oxen
Deuteronomy 25:4 - You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.Last weekend I spent the entire weekend at the sink at St. Andrew Orthodox Church, washing dishes. We were having our...
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Yoav Shapira: Two quick restaurant reviews: Yakitori Zai and OAK
A couple of places from this past week that I need to get off my blogging queue before getting on a plane to Israel for most of the rest of the month. OAK Long Bar and Kitchen is the latest incarnation...
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Bryan Pendleton: Computers and Chess
I've been thinking about computers and chess again recently. There's been a little flurry of negative news about computers in chess in the past few months. Notably, ESPN's Grantland website featured a...
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Jasha Joachimsthal: Fronteers 2012
Even though most of the web development I do now is in the backend, I started with HTML in 1995 before I learned programming Java. In 2010 I attended the Fronteers conference and came back excited...
View ArticleChristian Grobmeier: Three mobile projects from the Apache Software Foundation
When somebody says “Apache Software Foundation” in a discussion on Open Source, some people try to provoke with a big and loud yawn. They think on C++ coding dinosaurs who are hacking on Apache HTTPD,...
View ArticleFrancesco Chicchiricco: Apache Syncope 1.0.2-incubating (Espressivo) released
The second 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 b2evolution.
View ArticleDejan Bosanac: Apache ActiveMQ 5.7.0 released
We managed to keep our goal of making more frequent releases and today we’re happy to announce Apache ActiveMQ 5.7.0. The main goal of this release was Java 7 compatibility. The project is built using...
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Bryan Pendleton: Gone Girl: a very short review
Am I the last person in the world to read Gillian Flynn's sensational Gone Girl? Certainly not; I see that it's still #4 on the best-seller charts. And, Donna hasn't read it yet, and perhaps she won't....
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Claus Ibsen: Apache ActiveMQ 5.7.0 Released
Today the Apache ActiveMQ team announced the immediate release of Apache ActiveMQ 5.7.0. In this release I had a more active role than I usually has. So its with great please to see a release come out....
View ArticleRich Bowen: Rich's Rule of Content
I mentioned Rich's Rule of Content today on IRC, in the context of a patch that I'd applied to the Apache httpd documentation.Rich's Rule of Content is something that I started jokingly referring to...
View ArticleDave Johnson: Web Integration Patterns
In my previous post, I promised to write a blog series on Web Integration Patterns. This post explains the concept and a bit about how I plan to write about it. What I’m calling Web Integration...
View ArticleJoe Brockmeier: CloudStack Configuration Vulnerability
A configuration vulnerability has been discovered in CloudStack that could allow a malicious user to execute arbitrary CloudStack API calls, such as deleting all VMs being managed by CloudStack. John...
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