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Hiranya Jayathilaka: ASF Says "It's On"
As most of you know there's an ensuing battle between the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and Oracle over Java and Apache Harmony. The roots of this conflict go all the way back to the time when Java...
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Jukka Zitting: Open sourcing made easy
Open sourcing a closed codebase can be difficult. The typical approach is to decide that you’ll go open source, make big news about it and then try to figure out how to proceed. It’s no wonder many...
View ArticlePaul Querna: Enabling JNA in Apache Cassandra 0.6
What is it? Java Native Access is a library to provide access to native function calls on top of the JVM — from its website: JNA provides Java programs easy access to native shared libraries (DLLs on...
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Bryan Pendleton: As the Pac-10 becomes the Pac-12, what happens to the B-Ball...
Currently, the Pac-10 basketball schedule contains 18 conference games: each team plays each other team twice, home-and-away.The Pac-10 is adding two new teams: Colorado and Utah, to become the Pac-12....
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Edward J. Yoon: The Social Network 2010
My feeling after watching the social network was that "no one is to be trusted". The conflicts and betrayals .. anyone with experience in business knows. He didn't wrong, IMO, all mammals does.
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Adrian Sutton: Apple-Scented Coffee Beans are Accurate
So Apple have announced that they will be contributing large swaths of code to the OpenJDK project and that from Java 7 onwards, Java will be a separate download from Oracle, much like Flash is now a...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: Starting and Stopping Jetty Gracefully with Groovy and JMX
I'm working on a project that uses Tapestry and ActiveMQ together; it works great on my Mac, but on my client's Windows workstation, ActiveMQ doesn't shut down cleanly and corrupts its local files...
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Nick Kew: Lest we remember
11th November is “remembrance day”, when we commemorate the 1918 armistice with plastic poppies, symbolising the Flanders fields where so many young men fought and died in unspeakable conditions. In...
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Ben Laurie: Chicken and Cashew
When I fancy a stirfry my thoughts often turn to this dish. I first learnt to cook this from Ken Hom’s excellent book, but it doesn’t bear much resemblance to his version any more. Quick and easy and...
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Bryan Pendleton: Apple contributes their Java technology to OpenJDK
According to this press release, Apple will be contributing their Java technology to OpenJDK.The Register's take is that In effect, Oracle has recognised it needs Apple - and by extension, its Mac Apps...
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Bryan Pendleton: Wang Hao apologizes for winning and moving into a tie for...
At the fascinating and action-packed Tal Memorial chess tournament (the official website is in Russian, natch) rising Chinese chess star Wang Hao won his game with Boris Gelfand when Gelfand...
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Yoav Shapira: Book review: No Way Down
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 is a recent book by Graham Bowley. This is a non-fiction book, a work of investigative journalism, covering the 2008 K2 disaster. Eleven people died within a couple...
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Yoav Shapira: Even Apple ships incrementally
A lot of people who work in product development have this Apple envy thing going on. We read articles about Apple, its products, its excellent results, and its people, and we all wish we could be...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Apple and Oracle Announce OpenJDK for Mac OS X →
I didn’t expect to see this one happen so soon, if ever. Apple is going to contribute the code for the Mac OS X Java implementation to OpenJDK. This is excellent news and exactly the right move for all...
View ArticleJames Duncan: National Opt-Out Day →
This country needs security measures in place that not only keep us safe but also does not grossly violate privacy, constitute an unreasonable search, or subject large numbers to radiation screening...
View ArticleJames Duncan: ◼ RubyConf 2010
RubyConf 2010 was a conference “off” for me. Don’t get me wrong. I was there. It was great. What I mean, however, is that I wasn’t there in any capacity that resembled work. I wasn’t there to...
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Chris Pepper: Mac OS X Time Machine: Multiple FAIL
My MacBook Pro's hard drive died last week. I got a new 250gb drive from Alex and replaced the dead one. Good thing I use Time Machine and a Time Capsule, I thought... FAIL #1: The Mac OS X 10.6 Snow...
View ArticleJames Duncan: ◼ Choosing Words Carefully
For a moment as I sat in my seat on board a flight from New Orleans to Denver, I thought that the rest of my day was totally going to be pear shaped. The flight attendant’s eyes had just narrowed and...
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Edward J. Yoon: Ancient Aliens? It's only a plausible fantasy.
I watched 'Ancient Aliens' today. There are some ideas and feelings that sound plausible but given just a wee bit of thought can be shown to border on the fantasy. First there is a west-centered...
View ArticleJasha Joachimsthal: Open sourced my Hippo blog
Half a year ago I started making my own blog using Hippo CMS and Hippo Site Toolkit. I didn't like the Blogger tagsoup, wanted to use HTML5 and CSS3. I also wanted to control my data. Yes there are...
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