Isabel Drost: Apache Con – Hackathon days
This year on Halloween I left for a trip to Atlanta/GA. Apache Con US was supposed to take place there featuring two presentations on Apache Mahout – one by Grant Ingersoll explaining how to use Mahout...
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Bryan Pendleton: Ken Johnson's Exposition of Thread-Local Storage on Win32
The always-worth-reading Raymond Chen happens to be talking about Thread-Local Storage on Windows this week. In his essay, he references Ken Johnson's eight-part description of how Thread-Local Storage...
View ArticleJames Duncan: 1000 Cores on a Chip a Possibility →
Intel is experimenting in the lab with chip architectures that can scale way out beyond the current state of the art. To do so, they’re looking at ways around computing paradigms that limit...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Kuwait Bans Digital SLRs for Regular Citizens →
From the “You’ve gotta be kidding me” department, it seems that Kuwait has banned the use of digital SLRs by non-journalists. Of course, many in Kuwait are trying to figure out what to do with their...
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Nick Kew: Available
I’m now available for paying work. Since February 2008 when I was hired by Sun I’ve been out of circulation, and had to turn down occasional prospective clients. I’ve always done my best to offer...
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Bryan Pendleton: The unwritten parts of the recipe
As any cook knows, recipes are just a starting point, a guideline.You have to fill in the unwritten parts yourself.So, may I suggest the unwritten parts that go with this recipe?First, between each...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Worse than Vietnam →
Robert Wright, in New York Times op-ed yesterday, takes another look at the comparison between Vietnam and Afghanistan. His verdict is that Afghanistan is be much worse for us than Vietnam was. The...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Full Beta
Dave Thomas: Brought some gerbils back in from early vacation to help crank out a new release of the Rails book... At this point, the book is off to indexing, copy-editing, layout, and what-not. This...
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Jan Materne: 10 vor Weihnachten
Die 10 Blechbläser von NiederrheinBrass mit dem Schlagwerker Rolf Hildebrandt werden die Kirchenmauern wieder ordentlich zum Wackeln bringen. Das Programm ist wie immer abwechslungsreich: Zwischen Bach...
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Bryan Pendleton: kernel.org upgrades their master machines
I found this article about the new kernel.org "heavy lifting" machines interesting. These are the machines with whichkernel.org runs the infrastructure that the Linux Kernel community uses to develop...
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Jukka Zitting: The case for the digital Babel fish
“Just like Arthur Dent, who after inserting a Babel fish in his ear could understand Vogon poetry, a computer program that uses Tika can understand Microsoft Word documents.” This is how Tika in...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Apache Con – Hadoop, HBase, Httpd
The first Apache Con day featured several presentations on NoSQL databases (track sponsored by Day software), a Hadoop track as well as presentations on Httpd and an Open source business track. Since...
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Adrian Sutton: Controlling Focus in Firefox
I have a bunch of JavaScript unit tests and for some of them I need to trigger a real keypress – one that activates the browser’s default functionality, not just triggers the JavaScript listeners. To...
View ArticleShane Curcuru: Haiku: Thanksgiving
/ Happy Thanksgiving! / / No decorating the tree / / until tomorrow. / / Cheese on crackers, wine. / / Turkey, stuffing; gravy, mashed. / / Coffee, pumpkin pie. / / How many gobblers / / will we all...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Hobgoblin of Little Minds
Brendan Eich: So, you kids want CoffeeScript, do you? I tried out CoffeeScript, and was impressed. A clean and consistent syntax, optimized for modern use cases including string interpolation and...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: ApacheCon - Keynotes
The first keynote was given by Dana Blankenhorn – a journalist and blogger regularly publishing tech articles with a clear focus on open source projects. Focussed on the evolution of open source...
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Nick Kew: Virtual Bereavement
With my severance from Sun/Oracle, I have to return to them their computer equipment, including a chunky workstation, and a nice 24″ monitor which I’ll miss. As part of housekeeping I knew I needed to...
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Brett Porter: Using a GPG agent for signing Maven releases on Mac OS X
Using the Maven GPG Plugin makes it easy to sign a large number of artifacts when performing a release with Maven. However, one of the annoying parts is that interactive password entry is not...
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Matt Raible: An Awesome Trip to Amsterdam and Antwerp for Devoxx 2010
I've often heard that Devoxx (formerly Javapolis) is one of the best Java-related conferences in the world. I've also heard it has the best speaking and viewing facilities (a movie theater) of any...
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