Isabel Drost: Salsa steps
If you always wanted to start learning Salsa and never really had the time to do so: Today a new beginners’ course starts at Salsa Con Corazon in Berlin Schöneberg. The course is still open for...
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Flash Crash – Norwegians Convicted for Outwitting ‘Trading Robots’ – CNBC : ‘The two men worked out how the computerized system would react to certain trading patterns – allowing them to influence the...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Database woes and whoas
This business of constructing an extensible inventory schema from scratch is apparently not as simple as it might seem. Of course, I didn't really expect it to be simple, but it's about an order of...
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Christian Grobmeier: Zen Shakuhachi Konzert: RENKEI Hashimoto
RENKEI Hashimoto spielt traditionelle, seit dem 14. Jahrhundert überlieferte Musik der Komuso (Fuke Shakuhachi-Mönche) auf der Shakuhachi (japanische Bambusflöte). Samstag, 13. November 2010, 19.00...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Tribal Knowledge
I used the term "tribal knowledge" at work earlier this week, and folks didn't know what I meant. It's a term that we used to use around the office all the time at several of my past jobs, and I...
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Ian Boston: Jackrabbit Performance
Having spent a month or so gradually improving performance in Nakramura I thought I should share some of the progress. First off, Nakamura uses Sling which uses Jackrabbit as the JCR, but Nakamura...
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Yoav Shapira: John Sculley on Steve Jobs (long interview) - we are not Steve...
My friend and colleague Josh "Major" Payne shared this article: John Sculley on Steve Jobs, by Leander Kahney for CultOfMac.com. It's a long article and there's an audio transcript of the interview as...
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Rich Bowen: Brick (Weekend Wordsmith)
BrickEvery day I passunseeingthese faces are not peoplebut bricksstacked one on the otherindistinguishableToday I stoppedlookedat this brickso distinct from the othersYesthat oneI never noticed how the...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Interface definitions
William Vanbenepe bemoans the loss of interface specifications in RESTy world. Some of his points, I agree with. Just because you use GET and JSON doesn't mean that it wouldn't be handy to define...
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Bryan Pendleton: Grant Thornton and the vanishing IPO market
I've been in the software industry for nearly 30 years at this point, most of the time in fairly small software companies. I've worked at multiple venture-funded companies, and been through an IPO. I...
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Isabel Drost: Apache Mahout at Apache Con NA
The upcoming Apache Con NA to take place in Atlanta will feature several tracks relevant to users of Apache Mahout, Lucene and Hadoop: There will be a full track on Hadoop as well as one on NoSQL on...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): What's smaller than a chronon?
Every few years I decide to take a tally of all the various things I've got partway done. While it doesn't always grow, it's always disconcerting. 10 projects at SourceForge; 2 Ruby gems; An...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-10-15
Conall’s Blog » DIY Multimedia Centre : good data on a reasonably-priced 1080p setup. I’m struggling through this right now, particularly on attempting to reuse an old laptop which can’t play 720p...
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Nick Kew: Elitism
I suspect it was the socialist consensus of the Hippy generation that labeled ‘classical’ music (above all, opera) as ‘elitist’, and told us anyone who dared to make a distinction between good music...
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Bryan Pendleton: Original Scraper Bike Team
It's barely 10 miles away from my house, but it's another world entirely. If you've got 7.5 minutes to spare, sit down in front of your computer and watch this documentary about the Original Scraper...
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Claus Ibsen: Paris and easier Camel route debugging
I am sitting at the airport in Paris killing a couple of hours before my flight home. As usually the wifi is not free of charge, so I decide to save the 10 euro / hour and write a blog entry instead....
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Yoav Shapira: Washington DC trip, October 2010
Last weekend Alli and I traveled to Washington, DC, to celebrate her birthday and meet some good friends. We had a blast, and I wanted to write down a quick recap of the key places and things we...
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Yoav Shapira: Book review: The Big Short
I've been trying to read more books this year, at the expense of TV and magazine subscriptions, and it's mostly worked. A couple of weeks ago I finished an awesome book: "The Big Short" by Michael...
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Matt Raible: RE: Moving from Spring to Java EE 6: The Age of Frameworks is Over
Last Tuesday, Cameron McKenzie wrote an interesting article on TheServerSide titled Moving from Spring to Java EE 6: The Age of Frameworks is Over. In this article, Cameron says the following: J2EE...
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