Shane Curcuru: Challenge: Blog your ApacheCon experience!
Seriously, folks, in ApacheCons of yore, we’d have a dozen posts a day just by old hands on Planet Apache alone, never mind all the great new voices who’ve joined recently. But this year? Where are the...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Discontinued: Xserve →
The writing has probably been on the wall since Apple stopped making the Xserve RAID a while back, but now it’s official. The Xserve—by far my favorite bit of data room kit ever—is going away. My read...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-11-05
GoCar : pay as you go car-sharing and short-term car rental in Dublin (tags: cars travel dublin ireland) The National Wax Museum Plus – Join in the celebration of Irish scientific inventors, designers...
View ArticleNóirín Shirley: A hell of a time
I had a hell of a time last night – in good and bad ways. The good came first. The ApacheCon lightning talks were, as usual, hilarious. The talented Paul Fremantle brought out his tinwhistle and I...
View ArticleJames Duncan: ◼ Rewrapping AVCHD with FFmpeg
In response to my post about ClipWrap, Chris Bevan sent along a note sending me a link to an Apple forum post where somebody has pulled together an Automator application that can rewrap AVCHD files....
View ArticleJames Duncan: ◼ Rewrapping AVCHD with ClipWrap
I’ve been shooting quite a bit of video lately with the Panasonic GH-1. It’s a great little camera, especially at 720p. It shares the same downside as it’s little brother, however, the GF-1. It uses...
View ArticleJames Duncan: ◼ So, What about Mac OS X Server?
Now that the Xserve has been discontinued and is joining the Xserve RAID on the shelf of discontinued items, what’s the likely future of Mac OS X Server? After all, Apple is busy learning lessons from...
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Ben Laurie: Radical Copyright Thinking … at the European Commission!
I criticise policy makers a lot. So it’s really nice when they say something sensible – or even inspirational. The summary does not do this speech justice. It’s quite short, I suggest you read it. “We...
View ArticlePaul Querna: Disappointed.
I will write a separate post about ApacheCon 2010 in Atlanta. I write mostly about technical things that I have an opinion about. I enjoy writing those blog posts, and learning more from the commentary...
View ArticleJim Jagielski: Upset, angry and totally disappointed
I feel the need, for many reasons, to post about what happened to Noirin. I doubt if I will be able to draft something as honest and "on the mark" as what Paul wrote, but I'll try. First of all, I,...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Thom Hogan’s 2011 Camera Industry Predictions →
Every year, Thom looks back and the year past and then turns his attention to making predictions for the next year. He sees 2011 as being a potentially good year for the players that execute well, and...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Xserve is dead... So now what? →
In the MacWorld equivalent of an op-ed, John Welch points out that the Mac Pro and Mac Mini aren’t any replacement for the Xserve. They don’t have the features needed for fault-tolerant 24/7/365 server...
View ArticleJames Duncan: How the Internet Killed the Rock Star →
The rock stars of decades past partied their asses off backstage. Now, they check Facebook and Twitter. It’s a different world backstage. Jenka Gurfinkel takes us there. (via @kk)#
View ArticleGlen Mazza: Web Services Links (7 November 2010)
Web service related links of interest this week: Java web services: Understanding WS-Policy - IBM dW article by Dennis Sosnoski (Nov. 2010) CXF webservices on Domino - Stickfight Blog (Oct. 2010)...
View ArticleRobert Burrell Donkin: Learning Agile: Distributed Code Reviews, the Apache Way
Moving on from shorts introducing agile code reviews to discuss how open source projects approach this subject. Aimed at masters students learning agile development. Agile: Apache - Distributed Code...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): An imponderable ponderated
It's pretty much a tradition that the first step of learning a new programing language involves writing code that simply displays, "Hello, World!". I don't recall ever hearing of anyone questioning...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Zuckerberg on the Social Network →
I love this response by Mark to a question about the movie: “It’s interesting what they focused on getting right. Like, every single shirt and fleece that I had in that movie is actually a shirt of...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Appalled
I am appalled that this would happen at what I have for years thought of as MY conference.I'm appalled that this would happen within the Apache Software Foundation, which, I realize, has a long way to...
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Colm MacCárthaigh's Photos: Portland Capsule
A capsule from the OHSU cablecar (they call it a tram) in Portland. You can see the OHSU and the South Waterfront in the reflections. Flickr Page
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Jan Materne: Hudson: Review and ideas
In June I had the pleasure to do a review of the first German book about CI with Hudson by Simon Wiest. The book is announced for December 2010 and it will cover topics from basic (setup, first jobs)...
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