Justin Mason: Links for 2010-10-16
ioprofile : wraps strace(1) to summarise and aggregate I/O ops performed by a Linux process. looks pretty nifty (via Jeremy Zawodny) (tags: via:jzawodny io strace linux monitoring debugging...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Religious events
Down in Brighton, some bishop has been criticising Halloween: "The Rt Rev Conry said Halloween had "no meaning to it whatsoever" and was a waste of money for parents." Apparently all saints day...
View ArticleYoav Shapira: Steve Newcomb on building teams ("Cult Creation")
Steve Newcomb wrote a brilliant essay a few days ago, on building teams and, more broadly, creating a good working culture for engineers. I love, love, love this essay. It's far more important to read...
View ArticleGlen Mazza: Web Services Links (17 October 2010)
Web service related links of interest this week: Apache CXF 2.3.0 released! - Dan Kulp's blog (Oct. 2010) JBossWS 3.4.0.CR1 is out! - Alessio Soldano's Blog (Oct. 2010) SAML WS Integration with...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Mountain work
Ed Douglas has a list of his ten best mountaineering disaster writeups. I'm not sure about "best" here: I would view any expedition where at least one of the team members didn't return a failure,...
View ArticleIan Boston: Wrong Content Model
I knew there was something wrong. You know that gut feeling you have about something, when it just doesn’t feel right, but you cant explain coherently enough to persuade others so eventually self doubt...
View ArticleDavid N. Welton: When sunny gets blue, I get traffic
This is definitely a "captain obvious" observation, but it's interesting to see just how much bad weather here in the Veneto is correlated with traffic to my real-time weather site,...
View ArticleMichael McCandless: Pics from BBQ after Lucene Revolution
I finally pulled the pics off my camera from last week's BBQ after Lucene Revolution in Boston, where much fun was had! See them here. It was awesome to finally meet everyone!
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: try-with-resources and JDBC 4.1 auto-closable objects
One of the major annoyances with JDBC programming involves closing your objects when you're done with them. Connections, Statements, and ResultSets all need to be closed. Some JDBC implementations...
View ArticleRoss Gardler: Protecting the Open Web
The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that promotes openness, innovation and participation on the Internet. Just over a year ago the Mozilla Foundation launched Mozilla Drumbeat to keep...
View ArticleYoav Shapira: Two quick wine reviews: Qupe Syrah and Molly Dooker "Two Left...
Last Wednesday I cooked Alli a home-made dinner for her birthday ;) So naturally, I chose wines to pair with it. I was looking forward to trying the 2004 Qupe Bien Nacido Hillside Estate syrah from...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-10-17
Curious Wines : finalist for a RealEx Web Award, free next-day delivery and returns throughout Ireland, and some excellent prices here. hmm (tags: wine ireland shopping online-shopping)
View ArticleEdward J. Yoon: Apache Hama: BSP based Pi Estimator
Pi Estimator The value of PI can be calculated in a number of ways. Consider the following method of estimating PI Inscribe a circle in a square Randomly generate points in the square Determine the...
View ArticleOlivier Lamy: Maven Selenium Plugin 1.1 (Maven 3 compatible)
Hi,The Maven Selenium Plugin 1.1 version has been released.The most important fix is the Maven 3 compatibility !Improvement[MSELENIUM-66] - Support Maven 3 (upgrade to GMaven 1.3)[MSELENIUM-67] - Reuse...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Irish Times Letter re EMI v UPC
Submitted via email to their letters page. This may be a bit too long for the format, but hey. Enjoy. Madam, — Commentary in this paper and elsewhere has given the impression that Mr. Justice...
View ArticleYoav Shapira: Product review: Nespresso Citiz & Milk coffee machine
In September, Alli and I traveled to Israel to visit my family as we do every year, as well as celebrate a cousin's wedding (congrats, Jonathan!), meet friends, and generally relax. It was an awesome...
View ArticleCarlos Sanchez: Cloud Computing opportunities in the development...
You heard the word “cloud” everywhere, running applications on the cloud, scaling with the cloud,… but not so often from the development lifecycle perspective: code, commit, test, deploy to QA,...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-10-18
Alebrije : ‘Alebrijes are brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical creatures’. ah, I was wondering what they were — I thought there was one, extremely prolific, artist (tags:...
View ArticleJon Scott Stevens: New 'Java Application Server'
After a few days trying out various technologies to see what I liked and what would work, I finally got what I consider a cool new basis for a Java application server built. Based on top of Tomcat 6...
View ArticleOrtwin Glück: [Code] NTLM support in HttpClient merged
After years of legal uncertainity it is now finally possible to include NTLM implementations in Apache software. Also the Http Components and formerly HttpClient had continuously refused to include any...
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