Tony Stevenson: Kindle for the iPad
So. Yesterday I installed kindle on my iPad. What a revelation. No need for iBooks now it seems. Kindle books are cheaper, and a great selection. Enjoying book number 1 already. Also, re-reviewing my...
View ArticleStephane Bailliez: Now offering high-quality prints: the store is open
After much encouragements, thoughts, research and tests. I finally decided to open an online store to make available some of my pictures as high-quality prints in both the US and Europe. It took a bit...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Apache Dinner August Berlin recap
This evening yet another Apache Dinner took place in Berlin (this time Schöneberg), location booked by Simon Willnauer. As it was announced less then a week ago (see post below) we were expecting no...
View ArticleHenri Yandell: Pratchett short stories
A few online Pratchett stories. Theatre of Cruelty A Collegiate Casting Out Of Devilish Devices Death and What Comes Next
View ArticleGlen Mazza: Kohmori Reports now using JAXB!
I've upgraded my open-source (Apache licensed) Kohmori Reports framework to now use JAXB internally. The new Version 1.1 is available in Kohmori's Maven repository, replacing the earlier 1.0.8 that...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-08-10
Yakuza 3 reviewed by Yakuza : wow, fantastic review — real Japanese mobsters give their take on SEGA’s latest videogame (tags: crime games japan videogames yakuza sega) Man Lives In Futuristic Sci-Fi...
View ArticleNick Kew: Three in a row!
Our cheese shop has long been one of the best things in town. It’s one of the small shops in the area immediately outside the market: a shopping and services area that’s pedestrianised during shop...
View ArticleDennis Byrne: Netflix wins ... survival of the fittest
I saw this walking home and had to take a picture. Love it or hate it, this is capitalism.
View ArticleIsabel Drost: NoSQL summer Berlin - this evening
This evening at Volkspark Friedrichshain, Café Schoenbrunn the next NoSQL summer Berlin (organised by Tim Lossen) is meeting to discuss the paper on Amazon’s Dynamo “Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available...
View ArticleBharath Ganesh: IntelliJ Idea like Eclipse
I always feel that the mighty IDE is a developer's most precious possession - just as a pen is for a calligrapher. It is a developer's personal choice.But many a times it simply doesn't work that ways....
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Patch week
SANS is reporting that alongside this Month's MS patches, Adobe has patches for Flash and other things out. Not acroread, fortunately, but for anyone who doesn't use flashblock to turn flash off,...
View ArticlePaul Querna: Async TLS
We started discussing TLS in Node.js at the meetup in Palo Alto tonight. Lets imagine you wanted to implement SSL/TLS in an Asynchronous framework, like node.js. For the sake of discussion, I will be...
View ArticleEdward J. Yoon: Vinay Deolalikar's P ≠ NP preliminary paper
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Vinay_Deolalikar/Papers/pnp_preliminary.pdf 예전에 어떤 전북대 교수님이 P = NP 라더니 그 연구 과정/결과 모든게 "구라" 였다라고 하더군 (나는 그 내용 잘 모름) ... 아직 검증결과는 안나왔다지만 사실 많은 사람들이 P ≠ NP 라 생각했던것 같다. 나는...
View ArticleFeatherCast: Episode 68: Sean Owen - Apache Mahout
Better late than never, here’s my conversation with Sean Owen about Apache Mahout, which graduated from the Incubator earlier this year. You can listen to it HERE, or via iTunes. Related site: Apache...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Some statistics
Various research projects focus on learning more on how open source communities work: What makes people commit themselves to such projects? How much involvement from various companies is there? Do...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-08-11
La Brea Starter And Rustic Bread Recipe : another variation of the Nancy Silverton recipe, and a loaf recipe to go with it (tags: recipes food bread baking sourdough la-brea-bakery) Nancy Silverton’s...
View ArticleTim Williams: Health through good-for-you food
Science and the medical community are finally catching up to our elders and "raw foodies" who have, for years, claimed that eating your [natural non-GMO] vegetables will keep you healthy. I can't...
View ArticleClaus Ibsen: Meetup in Boston on August 17th
I will visit the states next week and will be in Boston for a FUSE gathering with my colleagues. On tuesday the 17th of August we will hang around the hip Indigo Lounge, where we can meet up for a chat...
View ArticleRob Davies: Enterprise ActiveMQ Webinar
I'll be talking about using ActiveMQ in the Enterprise on Thursday 19th August in a live webinar. As well as covering failover, high availability and scaling - I will also cover features in the...
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