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Bryan Pendleton: Koobface report
I spent some time reading Nart Villeneuve's fascinating report on the Koobface botnet. The report is well-written and clear, and although it's long, it doesn't take very long to read, so if you have...
View ArticleJames Duncan: ◼ GF1/GF2 Buying Advice for late 2010
Over the last few weeks, I’ve had lots of discussions with people looking to buy a camera who want to know if they should wait for the Panasonic GF2 or get the GF1 now. Some of these folks are just...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Obama Calls Airport Pat-downs Frustrating but Necessary →
Obama is quoted supporting his counter-terrorism aides say that the current security theater is the only way to guard against hidden explosives. It doesn’t seem that he’s listening to anybody outside...
View ArticleJames Duncan: TSA Leaves Man Soaked in Urine →
A retired bladder cancer survivor with an urostomy bag was left covered in his own urine thanks to the insensitivity and incompetence of TSA agents in Detroit. To think, the Democratic leadership in...
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David Reid: New Laptop
I finally took the plunge and ordered a new Lenovo X201 laptop a couple of weeks ago. It arrived yesterday after some fun and games with DHL around the delivery and HBOS around the payment. I ordered...
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Edward J. Yoon: Cheetah vs. Enzo Ferrari
3.65 seconds3.5 seconds in off-road conditions variable intake manifold2 variable nostrils rear wheel drivefour-leg drive
View ArticleGlen Mazza: Web Services Links (21 Nov 2010)
Web service related links of interest this week: Work begins on JAX-RS 2.0 - InfoQ article (Nov. 2010) Developing a Web Service in Eclipse - Petter Graff's blog (Nov. 2010) CXF Auto Redirect Feature in...
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Bryan Pendleton: Unidirectional Football
In American Tackle Football, each team defends its end zone, and attacks toward the other team's end zone, scoring a touchdown when it carries or passes the football across the goal line. At the end of...
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Nick Kew: Autumn fun concert
A week today (or rather yesterday, looking at the clock – Sunday 28th to be clear), we’re performing an autumn concert at the Guildhall, Plymouth. I understand tickets have sold well and they may no...
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Claus Ibsen: Thoughts from the Devoxx 2010 Conference
I am sitting at the Brussels airport killing 1 hour before my flight back home. So I spend the time with Stella Artois and my laptop (without internet) which is a perfect opportunity for me to write a...
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Jan Materne: Update to the Hudson book
News from the Hudson by Simon Wiest book I reviewed: it is now in the press and if you order it (e.g. at Amazon), you should be able to read it by Xmas (if you can read German :-O )
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Carlos Sanchez: Japan
Spending a few days in Japan, Kyoto, Tokyo and surroundings. So far really impressive, specially the autumn colors of the trees. More photos
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Bryan Pendleton: memcpy, memmove, and overlapping regions
The C runtime library provides two similar-but-different functions:memcpymemmoveThe primary distinction between these two functions is that memmove handles situations where the two memory regions may...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Travelling
Currently on my way back from a series of conferences in the past three weeks in the IC from Schiphol. After three weeks of conferences, lots of new input and lots of interesting projects I learned...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Study Says Industry and Government Were Unprepared for BP Spill →
The New York Times reports that presidential spill commission has found that both the federal government and the oil industry were unprepared for a blowout like the BP oil spill. Um, duh?#
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Antoine Toulme: Caught on tape
I was finally caught on tape saying good things about Apache Buildr. Enjoy my crappy French accent! Thanks to Engine Yard and Linkedin for hosting this meetup, next time we will bring more goodies from...
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David Calavera: Building Hudson plugins with Mirah, ROUND 1
I think this story started the day that I discovered hudson.rb. Charles sent a tweet asking for people to help him to write Hudson plugins with JRuby. The idea was there but just a few weeks ago he...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Airports
I grew up loving airports, and loving flying. Airports used to be a place of wonder, with the stores, the planes, the exotic people. My brother and I used to copy down the various airline logos, and I...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-11-23
The Moon Museum : a Grumman engineer, working with artist Frosty Myers, hid a tiny ceramic plate of modern art on one leg of the Apollo 12 moon lander — including a crude penis drawn by Andy Warhol...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Adam Savage’s TSA Ooopsie →
Mythbuster Adam Savage went through security, let them see his junk, and then was surprised to find that he’d left two 12" razor blades in his bag. I’ve forgotten knives and other things before that...
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