Ben Hyde: GroupOn – Pricing Games
I don’t find anything surprising in this report out of Rice University about the experience of businesses that tried GroupOn. If you are unfamiliar with GroupOn, they are a hugely successful internet...
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Edward J. Yoon: Mathematics and the Arts Are Related
The view of most people is that art and mathematics could not be more different. One is left brain, the other right brain. One is creative, the other analytical. However, they are very closely...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: The three rules of feature management
As anything you implement has to be maintained for all future versions, as it creates expectations downstream, and as new features provide a reason to upgrade, it is important to start off an...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: What a waste: Kindle and Interactive Fiction
I think its a terrible waste that the Kindle doesn't support Interactive Fiction. I would love the be able to play IF games untethered, and IF is the right game for the Kindle which excels at...
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Bryan Pendleton: Sub-division landscapes
Oh, my, these pictures from the ever-wonderful Big Picture blog are simply mesmerizing.What must the aliens think of us as they gaze down from outer space?
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Berin Loritsch: Technology Dilemma
So I have a project where a client application which automatically scores students and stores it in a database. That part is easy. Now I have a wide open door for how I want to do the instructor’s...
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Edward J. Yoon: Going Wild
I ain't satisfied with my position today. Unfortunately in my career, despite a good start, I lost many things and many people around me. Now I'll go on my way, burning with passion.
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-10-01
‘Ireland’ Reddit : quite a busy news aggregator, it turns out — 1,960 registered readers and a lot of traffic at this stage. worth bookmarking (tags: ireland reddit local news aggregation)
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): "Lucy, you got a lot of 'splainin' to do!"
Welcome to October! The last couple of weeks have been kinda rough. On the positive side, I've applied for a few jobs and had an interview (a cool job at Duke University). On the downside, I've had...
View ArticleTony Stevenson: Mutt – Mark all messages as read
So, for as good as mutt is, it doesn't have a default keybinding to allow you to mark all messages in a given mail folder as read. It's easily do-able, all you need todo is create a macro. macro index...
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David Blevins: EJB 3.1 goes final
The EJB 3.1 and Java EE 6 specifications finally closed this month and are up for download. On a personal level, I'd like to say that EJB 3.1 has been the most productive I've been on a specification,...
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David Blevins: Pattern: InvocationContext Propagation
Another good name for this pattern might be ThreadLocal Encapsulation. This pattern is a real ThreadLocal killer as it is a way to track state over several calls without widespread ThreadLocal usage....
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David Blevins: OpenEJB Revival
After a year and a half of internal development and six months of betas, the 3.0 codebase has matured and solidified into the OpenEJB I've always dreamt of.OpenEJB 3.0 achieves much of the original...
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David Blevins: OpenEJB 3.0 Final Released
After a month of release candidates, fixing TCK issues, and other release polish... OpenEJB 3.0 is finally released! This release includes several improvements and refinements over the very successful...
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Ben Laurie: Aims not Mechanisms
I’m a big fan of the EFF, so it comes as a bit of a surprise when I see them say things that don’t make any sense. A while back the EFF posted a bill of privacy rights for social network users. Whilst...
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Olivier Lamy: Hudson Maven Dependency Update Trigger : First Hudson plugin...
I have made the first release of the Maven Dependency Update Trigger hudson plugin. Wiki page here : http://wiki.hudson-ci.org//x/jgfDAgThis plugin will check according to the cron expression if your...
View ArticleGlen Mazza: Web Services Links (3 October 2010)
Web service related links of interest this week: JAXB & Collection Properties - Blaise Doughan's Blog (Sept. 2010) SOA in Practice: Case Study in BPEL and SCA - IBM dW article (Sept. 2010) Apache...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Rain stops play? Only for soft southerners.
Apparently there is some golf event going on about 15-20 miles away, just over the bridge in Wales. They've been warning about congestion on the motorway for a few weeks. However, the wind and rain we...
View ArticleDave Johnson: Apache Roller 5.0 RC2
A couple of weeks ago, I made a second release candidate available for Apache Roller 5.0. Here's the announcement (also available at http://s.apache.org/apacheroller50rc2): Apache Roller 5.0 Release...
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