James Duncan: The Plane Bomb Plot in Photos →
BBC photo essay covering the latest airline bomb plot, including close ups of the explosive—believed to be PETN—and the electronics which were placed inside a laser printer. Also in the box was a...
View ArticleJames Duncan: The Golden Ratio in the Quantum World →
The Golden Ratio, the irrational number 1.6180339887... sometimes denoted ϕ, shows up in geometry, nature, art, and architecture among other places. Now, it looks like it shows up as well at the...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Dead Drops →
What happens when an art project hooks up with a spy novel? If the thought an anonymous, offline, peer-to-peer file-sharing network tickles your fancy, then you should check out Aram Bartholl’s project...
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Emmanuel Lecharny: Bye bye summer time...
So we switched (in Europe) from summer time to winter time. At 3am, it's 2 am again. So what ?Well, I was running some tests on my computer before crashing, and I was quite surprised to get an error in...
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Andrew Savory: Tube Status
It's about time ... my first Palm app, which I wrote back in April, has finally been submitted to the Palm app store. Although I've been using it almost daily since I wrote it, finding the time to go...
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Ian Boston: Given enough Rope
A bit of background. We have been experiencing bad performance for certain searches in Jackrabbit using Lucene. I always knew that sorting on terms not in the Jackrabbit Lucene index was a bad thing,...
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Grant Ingersoll: Lucid Imagination » Apache Mahout 0.4 Released
Lucid Imagination » Apache Mahout 0.4 Released. Lots of exciting new things happening in Mahout!
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Hadrian Zbarcea: Apache Camel 2.5.0 Released
The 2.5.0 release of Apache Camel is finally out. It is the result of some two and a half months of improvements since the last release in July. You can check the release notes for more details and...
View ArticleHenri Yandell: Blog moved
Heading towards a point where I won’t even run a virtualized server, so moving the blogs off of said machine and onto wordpress.com. New link is: http://flamefew.wordpress.com/ RSS:...
View ArticleRobert Burrell Donkin: Learning Agile: Introducing Timeboxing
A couple of shorts on timeboxing. Aimed at masters students learning agile development. An Introduction To Timeboxing Timeboxing And Iterative Development
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Isabel Drost: Apache Mahout @ Devoxx Tools in Action Track
This year’s Devoxx will feature several presentations coming from the Apache Hadoop ecosystem including Tom White on the basics of Hadoop: HDFS, MapReduce, Hive and Pig as well as Michael Stack on...
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Jeremy Quinn: Apparitions [Flickr]
sharkbait posted a photo: At the Tate Modern the other evening, going to the Gauguin exhibition with family. Arrived early, in time to capture this lovely evening light.
View ArticleOtis Gospodnetic: The Absurdity of VC Money and Marketing
The recent 37 Signal blog post, Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Admoda, really struck a cord with me as the business owner.This is the first bit that caught my attention. I've made the same...
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Olivier Lamy: Open Source song :-)
The famous french singer jcfrog has made a nice song on Open Source :-)Have a look here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBHFnTlAJ4s Check out the other one on twitter :...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: Tapestry 5.2.2
... and the latest version of Tapestry, 5.2.2, is now available. This is the second beta release for Tapestry 5.2, addressing a few bugs in 5.2.1, and adding a couple of minor non-disruptive...
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Jukka Zitting: Chongqing on the rise
“The largest city you’ve never heard about.” That’s how the Foreign Policy magazine labeled Chongqing in a recent story about the city. Today the Finnish television showed an interesting documentary...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-11-01
That mysterious J : “in e-mail from Microsoft employees, you may find a stray J [...] The J started out its life as a smiley-face. The WingDings font puts a smiley face where the letter J goes. [...]...
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Tim Williams: PicasaUploader to Facebook Problems
So, this is semi-tested theory that hasn't let me down so far. I use the PicasaUploader App in Facebook to get my pictures from Picasa to Facebook's Photos with frustrating intermittent success....
View ArticleCommunity Over Code: Ask Me about FREE Apache Contributor buttons!
Back once again at ApacheCon, I’ll be giving out free Apache “Contributor” feather buttons. All you have to do to get your button is let me know that you’ve donated funds to the Apache Software...
View ArticleDaniel Kulp: Welcome to Sopera!
I’m very excited to be able to announce that two very talented developers have joined the Sopera team. The first is Sergey Beryozkin. Sergey has been an extremely valuable resource in developing,...
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