Steve Loughran: Professor SavasP
I must congratulate Savas Parastatidis for becoming an honorary Professor in Computer Science at Newcastle University I cannot but hope that for some reason we have some standards body meeting where...
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Brett Porter: Creating a Custom Build Extension for Maven 3.0
In the process of testing the Maven 3.0 release that’s being voted on, I wanted to try out the additional extension capability, and have a little fun with it in the process. The result is an old friend...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Surge
Over the last 15 years or so, I've seen an evolution of conferences into various spaces, from beginners introductions to in-depth training on various technologies. What's often missing is the view from...
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Bryan Pendleton: Computer industry patent law legal news of the day
Google files their response to the Oracle Android lawsuitOver at AllThingsD, John Paczkowski has a short article discussing Google's legal response to the Oracle Android suit; the web page also...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Stuxnet: industrial computing has just changed
Before the first internet worm, computers on Arpanet trusted each other, thinks like rlogin were insecure, NFS trusted callers to be who they said they were. Machines trusted each other. Not any more,...
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Michael McCandless: Lucene's SimpleText codec
Inspired by this question on the Lucene user's list, I created a new codec in Lucene called the SimpleText codec. The best ideas come from the user's lists!This is of course only available in Lucene's...
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Deepal Jayasinghe: ConnectException when connecting to Tomcat
If you are experiencing following exception when you try to connect to tomcat either using Java socket, TCP Monitor or any other means, then try the following procedure:java.net.ConnectException:...
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Glen Mazza: Book Review: Portlets in Action by Ashish Sarin (Manning)
Sarin is in the process of making a fine book that has strong potential to serve as the definitive text for portal/portlet development for quite a few years to come. It provides solid examples and...
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Bryan Pendleton: Urban Airship and the C500K problem
If you've been around web server implementations for 15 years or so (as I have -- wow I'm getting old!), then you're undoubtedly familiar with the C10K problem. The C10K problem was an attempt, about...
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Hadrian Zbarcea: Take the Apache Camel Survey!
A new Apache Camel release is just around the corner (version 2.5.0) and recently we announced taking the 1.x branch off life support. Therefore the race is on to deliver a new major version, Camel 3.0...
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Christian Grobmeier: Hierarchical company structures
…especially the meritocratic onces are not effective. Better are promotions by random. Sounds weird? Here is an excellent article based on a work about Peter-Principle. Laurence Peter is a...
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Afkham Azeez: Solution to Dell Laptop Overheating Problem
At WSO2, we have been having this problem of Dell laptops overheating for many years. This led to the failure of many machines as well as reduced battery life. Paul's laptop suddenly stopped...
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Claus Ibsen: Help us by taking the Camel Survey!
The Apache Camel PMC launched yesterday a survey intended to get a better understanding of how Camel is used, what the major issues are in getting started with Camel (and even for experienced users)...
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Nick Kew: Rural Broadband
I’ve been invited to offer my thoughts on rural broadband, and its effect on business[1]. On the grounds that I’m both a techie and a user, and might therefore have something more to contribute than...
View ArticleTed Leung: Haskell Workshop and CUFP 2010
It has been many years since I attended an ACM conference, and even more years since I attended the Lisp and Functional Programming Conference, which has evolved into the International Conference on...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: A Get Together Checklist
Still on the list of potentially interesting books: The Checklist Manifesto - explaining why checklists can still be valuable - especially for complex problems and tasks. Though not very complex, I...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): XP1000 hardware woes
In the ongoing saga of trying to get the OpenVMS content of roughly 100 9TR and DAT (~50 of each) moved to DVD, there's a new one. The AlphaStation XP1000 I purchased in order to have VMS access to...
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Bryan Pendleton: Nice Tilt-Shift video of San Francisco
I liked the Lombard Street section, and the boats floating in the Pier 39 Marina, and the boat sailing past Alcatraz Island. Enjoy! Here's the video.
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-10-06
Government gets no ’serious offers’ for e-voting machines : 2 *other* govt departments (nice try) wondered about buying them, for utterly random purposes for which they’re totally unfit. Total cost of...
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Jeroen Reijn: Large heap dump analysis with Eclipse Memory Analyzer
Most developers working with Java hardly have to think about the memory footprint of their application that they wrote. The garbage collector inside the JVM will remove most waste, but what happens...
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