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Sander Temme: ApacheCon Meetup: Whither HTTPD?
You can now suggest Meetup topics for the evenings of ApacheCon. I’m not sure what a Meetup is in this context: perhaps it’s a little like a BOF. Anyway, I went ahead and registered a Meetup with the...
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Brett Porter: Apache Maven 3.0 Released: a Few Important Tips
Just short of the 5 year anniversary of the Maven 2.0 release (Oct 19, 2005), Maven 3.0 has shipped today. You can download it from the Maven website. I’ve now been using it for about 6 months for all...
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Berin Loritsch: Why it's important to understand how frameworks grew up
When programming languages are as different as Smalltalk and C# or Ruby and Java it’s easier to keep the design principles behind the language separate. However, I’m finding that when they are as...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-10-08
NAMAland : ‘At NAMAland we like to look on the bright side. OK, the downside of NAMA is that it’s costing you €54 billion — the upside is that you now own some of the best (and worst) properties in...
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Bryan Pendleton: Many questions still swirl regarding the "Flash Crash"
It's another Friday afternoon, a week has passed, and I'm still baffled by the economy, the stock market, financial engineering, etc. etc. etc. :)Last week's SEC report on the Flash Crash offered lots...
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Olivier Lamy: Tomcat Maven Plugin 1.1 Released
Tomcat Maven Plugin 1.1 has been released.Site documentation : http://mojo.codehaus.org/tomcat-maven-plugin/.Here the release notes :Bug[MTOMCAT-55] - Can't shutdown tomcat started with tomcat:run with...
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Adrian Sutton: JavaScript Performance: For vs ForEach
As part of exploring JavaScript performance, I started wondering if the particular method of looping made a difference to performance. After all, one of the most often repeated bits of advice is that...
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Grant Ingersoll: Next up, ApacheCon!
If you missed the Lucene Revolution conference, especially the training on Apache Solr and Lucene, don’t worry. You won’t have to wait long for the next round, both Erik Hatcher (co-author of Lucene...
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Ugo Cei: Open Source Enterprise Search European Tour
Sourcesense and Lucid Imagination are proud to announce the Open Source Enterprise Search European Tour during which, among other things, Lucid Imagination will present how LucidWorks Enterprise...
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Edward J. Yoon: 2010 Seoul International Firework Festival
Today, there was a Seoul International Firework Festival. Everything was good, except the traffic jam.
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Today’s mail brings a two page letter of fine print. The letter was mailed from Wilmington Delaware and has a PO Box and zip code for it’s return address. This letter is obviously about a change in the...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-10-09
XBMC & Broadcom Bring 1080p Decode Upgrade to ill-equipped netbooks, nettops, Apple TVs : drat, my old Dell laptop I’m using as a Boxee platform (which can’t keep up with 720p) doesn’t have a...
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Bryan Pendleton: Google's robot cars
Somehow, I have a feeling that this will be somewhat controversial.So we have developed technology for cars that can drive themselves. Our automated cars, manned by trained operators, just drove from...
View ArticleChris Pepper: Femme Totale with Molly Does Not Approve
Tonight Molly Does Not Approve hosted Femme Totale, inviting several dancers to perform to their original music. After throwing out more than half my photos (pole dancing lighting is unfriendly to...
View ArticleSylvain Wallez: Today is the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
Warning: super-geeky stuff ahead :-) Today is October 10, 2010, or in other words 10-10-10. This is in itself a noticeable date, but it gets even more interesting when you consider that 101010 is the...
View ArticleOrtwin Glück: [Code] line wrapping with xconsole
I am using xconsole to display the syslog. I was annoyed that long lines from iptables went offscreen because they are very long. Now fortunately xconsole is an old-school X11 program. According to its...
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Michael McCandless: Fun with flexible indexing
The Lucene Revolution conference just wrapped up yesterday. It was well attended (~300 or so people). It was great fun to hear about all the diverse ways that Lucene and Solr are being used in the real...
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Niall Pemberton: Maven Hits the Sweet Spot!
The Maven team has announced the release of Maven 3.0, which can be downloaded here. I used to see Maven as a useful tool for producing consistent builds but that started to change with version 0.9.7...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Time to choose my relations
The database I've been using to keep track of things like my shipments, IC chips, raw materials, and other stuff has grown by evolution rather than by design. And the result is getting really awkward....
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-10-10
All About Skimmers — Krebs on Security : photos of the current state-of-the-art in ATM skimmers via Brian Krebs (tags: brian-krebs atm skimmers security photos banking fraud) EMAIL AND BACON : This...
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