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Nick Kew: Marke’t Econom’y
Went into town today to buy some salad for lunch (already had bread, cheese, and soup in the kitchen). Our local greengrocer looks different. Bare, empty. With a much-reduced range on display. There...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Chris Adamson on the Mac Java Kerfluffal
Chris goes beyond all the other posts about the whole Apple-pulling-back-from-Java angst, saying: “with the most appealing desktops and the most popular mobile devices ditching Java, it’s time for the...
View ArticleJames Duncan: A Contest to Design a 420SF Dwelling
Graham Hill is on a mission to show that we can live better by limiting the space we need. Putting both his money and his living space on the line, he’s launched a competition to transform his 420...
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Edward J. Yoon: Create a Twitter ReTweet Bot
Personally, I needed a Twitter RT bot that can be used to collect various Tweets around a keyword or a hashtag. Just simply coded using PHP, MySQL and abraham's twitteroauth. The program flow is: 1)...
View ArticleFeatherCast: Episode 72: Marcel Offermans and OSGI at ApacheCon
Here’s Corinna doing another interview, this time with Marcel Offermans, regarding ApacheCon next week and the presence of OSGI content there. You can listen to it HERE or on iTunes. Related links:...
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James Strachan: Scala is awesome!
I got caught unawares by Debbie from FuseSource with her video camera and she managed to get me rambling about programming languages and what I thought of Scala.The sound is a bit quiet you might need...
View ArticleDavid N. Welton: Kindle?
I'm thinking about getting a Kindle, and I thought I'd write down some thoughts, even if they're a bit jumbled, and invite commentary. Good: One thing I really like, living here in Italy, is that I...
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Bruce Snyder: 40% Off ActiveMQ In Action To Celebrate Going Into Production!
Good news -- ActiveMQ In Action has now entered the Manning production process! This means that we are done with the writing of content for the book and it is currently being copy edited and undergoing...
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Bruce Snyder: SpringOne 2GX 2010 in Chicago
Last week I attended our annual SpringOne 2GX developer conference and I saw many excellent presentations by many different folks. As is common at a developer conference, there were numerous times...
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Adrian Sutton: Reading the Apple-Scented Coffee Beans
It’s interesting to see how many people are jumping to conclusions around the very carefully worded deprecation notice for Java in OS X. Read it carefully and pay careful attention to what it actually...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Kindle
My daughter and wife went together to get me a Kindle for my birthday.I love it.I've been reading e-books for many years, but it's always been a frustrating experience. I used some reader on my Visor,...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Video: Max Heimel on sequence tagging w/ Apache Mahout
Some time ago Max Heimel from TU Berlin gave presentation of the new HMM support in the Mahout 0.4 release at the Apache Hadoop Get Together in Berlin: Mahout Max Heimel from Isabel Drost on Vimeo....
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Bruce Snyder: New Features in ActiveMQ 5.4: Automatic Cluster Update and...
Apache ActiveMQ 5.4.0 was released in August, followed quickly in September by a 5.4.1 release. Not only were there tons of fixes in these releases, but there were also some really great new features...
View ArticleCommunity Over Code: Signup for FREE events at ApacheCon next week!
ApacheCon NA offers a whole host of options next week in Atlanta, GA. There are a wide variety of trainings being taught by some of the key committers on Apache projects (look for the combination...
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Tim Bish: ActiveMQ C API under development
Recently I started working on a C API for ActiveMQ. The idea is to wrap the ActiveMQ-CPP library in a C accessible API in order to leverage all the hard work that has gone into making the C++ client....
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Fedora Core 13, you're being difficult..
So as part of my stint here at Red Hat, I've been issued a Thinkpad T500 laptop, and installed FC13 on it. It's a lovely machine, but the installation has some differences from my FC12 personal unit....
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Nick Kew: Waste Collection or Hot Air
West Devon has introduced a new waste collection regime. They started by leafleting us some time ago. Fine. The leaflet promised more information nearer the time, so I didn’t pay too much attention...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Zap X
Ken Coar: CTRL-Alt-Backspace is being ignored (i.e., not restarting Xorg) Solution: setxkbmap -option "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" There is a packaged up version of this for Ubuntu users.
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Asankha Perera: "The UltraESB environment was a much cleaner solution for...
Read the Original Comment from Jim"Note that the leading tool for Web Services testing is SoapUI. While this product provides some powerful support for Soap based mock services, its support for REST...
View ArticleBrian McCallister: My Favorite Interview Question
As Ning is ramping up recruiting again, I need to brush off my interrogation techniques interview questions. Sadly, one of my favorites is no longer so useful, as originally designed, due to technical...
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