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Nick Kew: Lower than a convict
Today’s news: convicted prisoners are to get the vote. It’s one more tiny token of just how marginalised you can be by the economic exclusion of being stuck in the private rental market. As in, when I...
View ArticlePaul Querna: The case for Gossip
More of a stream than a full blog post. Lets say your business is a website, and this means downtime is unacceptable. Lets also you don’t have ops people in 3 spread out timezones. (Hey, you aren’t...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Imap, youmap, weallmap -- POP!
After years and years of sticking with POP because of problems I'd had with IMAP, I'm finally making the switch. Perforce, since accessing my home mail from work is now much more difficult than it's...
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Ian Boston: Version on Create Concurrency
In Jackrabbit 2.1.1 (possibly fixed in later version) if you create nodes with mix:versionable added to them, the version history will be created which will block other threads performing writes and...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-11-02
iPhone users not waking up on time due to DST bug : lots of people complaining about this on Twitter — seems the clock changes, but the alarms do not! Internationali[sz]ation Is Hard (tags: apple...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Scrumtisch November
Title: Scrumtisch NovemberLocation: BerlinLink out: Click hereDescription: Next Scrum meetup - Scrumtisch - is scheduled to take place end of November in Berlin FHain. See you there (that is at La...
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Edward J. Yoon: 근황
가끔 들어오는 분들을 위해서 .. 근래의 근황을 소개해봅니다. 요즘은 특히, Apache Hama 프로젝트에 시간을 많이 할애하고 있습니다. 한 시대를 풍미할지 모를 OSS 로써 서서히 꿈틀이는 뭔가가 느껴지는군요. :) 이 작업과 더불어 많은 메이저급 플레이어들과의 연결이 일어나고 있습니다. 못난이 자랑 좀 하면, Chelsio 니 Oracle Sun 이니...
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Danny Angus: misprint of the [specify timeperiod]
How apt:employment rose causing misery for many.From this, also worth a read.Have an award.
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Bryan Pendleton: Has anyone seen the black Bishop or the white Knight?
In Puke Ariki, New Zealand, a status report on the last two missing pieces of the town's outdoor chess set.
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Apache Mahout 0.4 release
On last Sunday the Apache Mahout project published the 0.4 release. Nearly every piece of the code has been refactored and improved since the last 0.3 release. The release was timed to happen exactly...
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Ian Boston: YouTube Snippets
One of the perks of being a member of University of Cambridge is you can (are actively encouraged) to attend Lectures, in any department, on any subject. I think I am right in saying 99% are open to...
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Michael McCandless: Big Fat Fiasco
I just watched this talk by Tom Naughton, describing the mis-steps and bad science over the years that have tricked us all into believing we should avoid fat and cholesterol in our diet when in fact we...
View ArticleShane Curcuru: Welcome to ApacheCon NA 2010!
ApacheCon started off with the annual State of the Feather plenary, from the President of the ASF, Jim Jagielski. Along with a brief overview of the health of the Foundation as a whole, we had some...
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Berin Loritsch: .Net Web Application Deployment Woes
I have a few frustrations with the way Visual Studio packages up your web application for deployment. In an attempt to make things easy, it made some common things difficult. Essentially, IIS can...
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Bryan Pendleton: Microsoft, HTML5, and Silverlight
Last week was the 2010 edition of Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, an always-important computer industry event which is held somewhat irregularly -- I think Microsoft's official position...
View ArticlePaul Querna: Interview about Libcloud at ApacheCon
I sat down yesterday with Cote from Redmonk here in Atlanta during ApacheCon. He recorded a “make all” podcast all about Libcloud, the Cloud, and Cloudkick: I’d gotten quick briefing from him yesterday...
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Hiranya Jayathilaka: Rediscover SOA with WSO2 Carbon & WS-Discovery
One of the hottest features of new WSO2 Carbon 3.0 based releases is the out-of-the-box WS-Discovery support. WS-Discovery is a standard protocol for discovering services and service endpoints. This...
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Edward J. Yoon: Quorum algorithm of the Zookeeper
The Apache Zookeeper is a coordination service for distributed applications, like a Google's Chubby. Many projects uses zookeeper, and we (Apache Hama) also uses zookeeper for barrier synchronization...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Github Breaks JQuery on Rails
$ rails generate jquery:install --ui --force fetching jQuery UJS adapter (github HEAD) /home/rubys/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p302/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:174:in `open_loop': redirection forbidden:...
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