Isabel Drost: CfP: Data Analysis Dev Room at Fosdem 2011
Call for Presentations: Data Analysis Dev Room, FOSDEM http://fosdem.org 5 February 2011 1pm to 7pm Brussels, Belgium This is to announce the Data Analysis DevRoom co-located with FOSDEM. The first...
View ArticleRob Davies: ActiveMQ in Action in Production!
The ActiveMQ in Action book, that has been a background part of my working life for the past couple of years has finally gone into production. Its actually bang up to date - and covers features that...
View ArticleRobert Burrell Donkin: Learning Agile: Space, Location, Physicality
Space, location and physicality are keys to successful agile development. We talked with masters students about these topics. So, here are a few personal shorts which may be of interest to a wider...
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Tim Bish: FuseSource now officially launched.
Its now official, FuseSource is now operationally independent from Progress Software, Rob has explained the background along with Larry's interview and Dana's podcast much better than I could have.This...
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Adrian Sutton: On the DVD vs in Software Update
James Turner gives a week in review and mentions the deprecated Java on OS X issue1. One thing to correct: Deprecation basically means that neither package will be delivered as part of the...
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Bertrand Delacretaz: Generating hard to guess content URLs in Sling
In RESTful apps, it is often useful to create hard to guess URLs, as a simple privacy device. Here’s a self-explaining example (with hardcoded parameters) of how to do that in Sling. After installing...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Sheepsafe, an Antidote to FireSheep →
In response to FireSheep, Nick Sieger put on his hacking cap and came up with a tool that automates the process of staying one step of people running FireSheep or other cookie swipers. Of course, the...
View ArticleJames Duncan: WePay Punks PayPal Conference With Frozen Cash →
The phenomenon of PayPal freezing accounts for no good reason has become so widespread that its competitors are using it against them. In this case, WePay is wheeling a 600lb block of ice around the...
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Jon Scott Stevens: How to fix missing source for latest Java for Mac OS X 6 22
This will make clicking through to the JDK source work in Eclipse again after updating to the latest Java for Mac OS X. Go to http://connect.apple.com and download Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Send it Sistah! →
A beautiful video by Sébastien Montaz-Rosset of Jelena Schradi and Ingrid Laillaut de Wacquant at the Ritson Gap above Annecy in France.
View ArticleJames Duncan: Corporate Campaign Ads Haven’t Followed SCOTUS Prediction →
When making the decision that would allow a huge new wave of corporate and union money flowing into elections, the Supreme Court argued that the Internet would allow transparency. That didn’t turn out...
View ArticleRobert Burrell Donkin: Learning Agile: Beginning Unit Testing
Some shorts aimed at introducing masters students to unit testing, in the context of agile development. Introducing Unit Testing Introducing Automated Tests How To Unit Test One Way To Start Testing
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Dejan Bosanac: ActiveMQ in Action in Production
It’s always a good feeling when the book project goes into the production, and that’s what happened to ActiveMQ in Action this week. If you already bought MEAP access plus printed version of the book,...
View ArticleRob Davies: Podcast on Apache ActiveMQ and FuseSource
I recently got the chance to ramble to James Denman from SearchSoa about Apache ActiveMQ, ActiveMQ in Action and a little bit about the FuseSource launch. You can listen to it on the SearchSoa site...
View ArticleRob Davies: FuseSource in Numbers
1 million+ transactions every minute running on Fuse software 200,000 downloads a month 200+ enterprise customers and growing rapidly 24 hr Enterprise support - every day 20 + Apache committers and...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: Google Analytics vs. localhost
Are you using Google Analytics and trying to test it on your pages? Does it appear to do absolutely nothing? After a lot of playing around, we discovered that Google Analytics appears to check if the...
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Claus Ibsen: FuseSource has launched
A little late to the party, I got time to write a blog entry of this important event. The announcement actually happend on monday the 25th october 2010. Rob has explained the background along with...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Beat me, X, eight to the bar
Ongoing struggles with Xorg.. Thanks to Sam Ruby, one of the problems is down: CTRL-Alt-Backspace is working again to restart the X server. And the keyboard shortcuts on the Habari admin pages are...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: Gradle is Great
My initial experience with Gradle is very positive. I've been quickly able to convert over my Maven POMs to Gradle build files, which are wonderfully concise. You can see the last of the results in...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Scientific debugging
Quite some years ago I ready Why programs fail - a systematic guide to debugging - a book written on the art of debugging programs written by Andreas Zeller (Prof. at University Saarbrücken, researcher...
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