James Duncan: PopTech Day One: Better Dead Than TED?
Paul Carr is attending PopTech and shares his first day experiences. Apparently, the first thing that everyone is keen to point out is that PopTech isn’t TED. It’s natural to compare the events, I’m...
View ArticleJasha Joachimsthal: Videos of the Fronteers 2010 conference
Back in 1995 the web was pretty simple. Most webpages were either boring serif text on a grey background or were completely built up with images which made them very slow to load in Mosaïc...
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Mukul Gandhi: XSD: schema type definition for empty content models
I'm inclined to write a little post, suggesting a correction (perhaps a better schema design) to an XML schema document I wrote in the blog post,...
View ArticleRobert Burrell Donkin: Learning Agile:
Some of the shorts I filmed for the students. Maybe of interest to other developers who want to learn to test their code. On Unit Tests and Coupling What is an Integration Test? Comparing Unit and...
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Yoav Shapira: Product review: Canon G12 camera
One of the gifts I got Alli for her birthday a few days ago is a new digital camera, the Canon G12. I am not a digital camera expert and I don't want to be. I knew she wanted something more than a...
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Bryan Pendleton: Learning from the active debates on Open Source
Several interesting debates regarding the future of "Open Source" are currently underway. I'm more than just an interested observer, since I'm a committer in Derby, an Apache open source project....
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Niall Pemberton: Commons IO 2.0 Released
The Apache Commons team has announced the release of Commons IO 2.0 which can be downloaded here. Commons IO is a library that contains utility classes, stream implementations, file filters, file...
View ArticlePaul Querna: three things
Three things I would like to hear more about: DIRT: Data Intensive Real Time, coined by Bryan. I’ve been thinking about how we use orbited to do this, and I think a real revolution in web application...
View ArticleJames Duncan: (Nothing But) Flowers
David Byrne spoke on day 2 of TED 2010 about how architecture helped music evolve. Even though he was there to speak, not sing, I’m sure I wasn’t alone in hoping he would perform. That wish came true...
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James Duncan: Fast and Spacious, Two Great Tastes
The MacBook Air is the product of two obviously compelling trends: SSDs are replacing hard drives and DVD drives aren’t nearly as necessary as they once were. As much as I like the new Air, however, it...
View ArticleJames Duncan: The World According to San Francisco
A west coast take on a NY classic. At first, I thought “oh jeez!” Then, well, I found myself laughing. Especially at the compass. (via @brainpicker)
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David Crossley: Qtstalker project rumbles
There are rumbles toward a release at the Qtstalker project, the open-source stock market charting and technical analysis package for UNIX-like systems Steve has done much work towards this Qt4-based...
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Luciano Resende: ApacheCon US 2010 - Come learn about Apache Tuscany and SCA...
Want to learn more about Apache Tuscany and SCA ? Come to join us at ApacheCon Atlanta, attend the Apache Tuscany Track sessions (Thursday, Nov 4th) and met some of the core project...
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Luciano Resende: Apache Tuscany SCA Java 2.0-M5.1 released
The Apache Tuscany team is pleased to announce the 2.0-M5.1 release of the Java SCA 2.0 project.Apache Tuscany/SCA provides a runtime environment based on Service Component Architecture (SCA), which is...
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Bryan Pendleton: Giants are in the World Series!
Great 6th game! Can't wait for the series to start!
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Jeremias Märki: 10 Years in Open Source
Sylvain Wallez indirectly reminded me that I, too, have my 10-year anniversary in the Open Source world this year. On October 24, 2000, my first post went to the fop-dev mailing list (Apache FOP...
View ArticleCameron McCormack: Moved
I haven’t officially been a student since March last year, when my candidature lapsed; I’m a part-time research assistant now. Over the last 12 months I technically haven’t been allowed to stay in the...
View ArticleCameron McCormack: Across the Tasman
Now that I’m getting settled in, it’s time to get blogging again. Settled in where, you say? At the start of this month, I made the cross-Tasman voyage to Auckland to start working at Mozilla! It’s an...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Part 4: Constant evaluation and improvement: Finding sources...
In recent years demand for shorter feedback cycles especially in software development has increased. Agile development, lean management and even Scrum are all for short feedback cycles: Coming from the...
View ArticleGlen Mazza: Web Services Links (24 October 2010)
Web service related links of interest this week: Using NSS for FIPS 140-2 compliant transport security in CXF - Dave Valeri's Blog (Oct. 2010) Jersey 1.4 Released on Sept. 11 - Paul Sandoz' blog (Oct....
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