Isabel Drost: Video: Sebastian Schelter on Recommendation w/ Apache Mahout
A few weeks ago we had the autumn edition of the Apache Hadoop Get Together in newthinking store in Berlin. I am glad to announce the first video online: Mahout Sebastian Schelter from Isabel Drost on...
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Olivier Lamy: Apache Maven Site Plugin 3.0-beta-3 for maven 3
The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Site Plugin, version 3.0-beta-3 for Maven 3.This version is intended to be the version of the Maven Site Plugin for Maven 3.The Site...
View ArticleMatt Raible: How's the ol' Team Doing?
Back in March, I wrote about How We Hired a Team of 10 in 2 Months: This week, we on-boarded 3 of our final 4 developers. I breathed a big sigh of relief that the hiring was over and we could get back...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Scoping out a C++ HTML5 parser
Henri Sivonen: the idea is the have a library that does HTML5 parsing and is API-compatible with libxml2 I do quite a bit of HTML-scraping (example: output). Lately my tool of choice is Nokogiri. Is...
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Rodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Cooling in 3D
All of the Peltier TEC units I've been able to find are strictly flat. I imagine they're made in humongous sheets that are sliced into individual units. I see lots of applications for cylindrical...
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Jeroen Reijn: Unit testing your HST2 components with EasyMock
Quality is an important aspect of every software development project. Writing unit tests is just one part of keeping an eye on quality. In this post I will try to explain how you can unit test your...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Deprecated
Back in about 2001/2, some of us Java Authors were invited for a week up in Seattle to spend time on the MS campus to learn more about .NET from the developers -quite a fun little week. I remember...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-10-21
simon listens : open-source speech recognition for Linux and Windows. must give this a go! (Via Alexander Seewald) (tags: speech-recognition floss free-software kde speech recognition linux audio...
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Bryan Pendleton: Dropbox looks pretty useful
I don't know why I hadn't been paying attention to Dropbox before. It looks pretty useful. I'm not quite sure how long it's been around, but it seems to be fairly mature, and from what I've heard it's...
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Bryan Pendleton: Apple is changing their support for Java on Mac OS X?
I'm a bit confused about whether the Apple announcement regarding Java on Mac OS X is significant or not. Here's The Register's view.Here's CNET's view.In general, building and maintaining a JVM for a...
View ArticleSam Ruby: The Robbed that Smiles
ASF Board: The ASF fully supports the Apache Harmony community as it moves forward, past this regretful decision on the part of Oracle. With respect to the many other projects in the ASF that...
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Jeroen Reijn: Getting started with Vaadin
A couple of weeks ago I made myself a promise that I would look into a new technology every month and write something about it here. I've been looking around for technologies unknown to me and perhaps...
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Bertrand Delacretaz: Pragmatic validation metrics for third-party software...
Earlier this week at the IKS general assembly I was asked to present a set of industrial validation metrics for the open source software components that IKS is producing. Being my pragmatic self, I...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Name-checked in the Seanad
So, after I posted this post about Aslan’s imaginary illegal downloads, someone on Twitter linked to this comment by Senator Paschal Mooney (Fianna Fail), in the Seanad the next day, repeating the...
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Bryan Pendleton: System sizes at the high end.
Here's a very impressive writeup of the recent Hadoop World conference in New York City, from David Menninger of Ventana Research.Menninger notes that Hadoop installations are much larger than you...
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Yoav Shapira: Local Motors is rocking!
Full disclosure: I'm an advisor to and have stock in Local Motors. A couple of years ago, I posted on this blog that a new company started a web site for open-source and crowd-sourced car design. It's...
View ArticleTed Leung: Strange Loop 2010
Last week I was in Saint Louis for Strange Loop 2010. This was the second year of Strange Loop, which is a by hackers for hackers conference. I’m used to this sort of conference when it’s organized by...
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Claus Ibsen: Camel in Action - One year anniversary
Exactly one year ago we announced the Camel in Action book and had it put out for pre-sale at Manning using their MEAP program. Today the manuscript is complete and we are in the process of type...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Tech support goes 'waaay back
I thought I'd already posted this, but now I can't find it. Reproduced to avoid bit-rot. The tech-support problem dates back to long before the industrial revolution, when primitive tribesmen beat out...
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Paul Querna: Evolution of Apache’s websites
This is the story of Apache’s own websites. I believe they have seen an interesting evolution in complexity, user expectations, and growth the last 15 years. I use we in this article to describe the...
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