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Robert Burrell Donkin: TEDxLeeds2010
Serendipitous meeting with Imran led me to TEDxLeeds2010. Very cool.
View ArticleDavid N. Welton: Kindle thoughts
I went ahead and got myself a Kindle for my birthday. Thanks to everyone for their comments in the last post. Here are my thoughts on it, in no particular order: I like it a lot. I was worried that...
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Copyright and defamation law is repelling investors – The Irish Times : ‘UNLESS CHANGES are made to Ireland’s legal and regulatory framework in areas like copyright and defamation, digital businesses...
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Nick Kew: Falling energy bills
The news is full of outrage about rising domestic energy bills. So by way of contrast, I thought I should mention this morning’s letter from my electricity supplier, EDF. From next month they’re...
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Justin Mason: Science Gallery Xmas Cards
The Dublin Science Gallery Greeting Cards are excellent! Get ‘em here, or pick up one of the great gadgets and gifts they have in stock. (disclaimer: I am mates with the designer and the guy who runs...
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Eric Cantona’s call for bank protest sparks online campaign : bank runs appear to be a hot topic at the moment (tags: banking crisis economics finance protest france eric-cantona) Copyright and...
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Olivier Lamy: What's new in the coming Gwt Maven Plugin 2.1.1
The coming Gwt Maven Plugin 2.1.1 will have new features.This stuff is currently available as 2.1.1-SNAPSHOT in the codehaus repo : https://nexus.codehaus.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/Running...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Call for translation (Apache HTTP Server)
Participation in open source project is not only open to folks who can program in C. If you can read English, and can write in some other language, your participation is desperately needed.The complete...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Apache Con – Mahout, commons and Lucene
The second day the track interesting to me provided an overview of some of the Apache commons projects. So seemingly small in scope and light-weight in implementation and dependencies these projects...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Black Friday isn’t the Biggest Shopping Day →
In the middle of what is reportedly the biggest shopping day of the year, the day when retailers cross into profitability for the year, Andrew Price over at GOOD points out that Snopes says that Black...
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Ben Laurie: Why Identity Is Still Just Login
It seems everyone now agrees that Internet identity is about a collection of assertions relating to a person (or thing, if you want to go there). Some of these assertions are assertions one makes about...
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Ben Laurie: Fun With Freeduino
As I may have mentioned before, I have a place in Wales. That place is pretty primitive, we have a solid fuel heating system, otherwise known as a Rayburn, and until recently the extent of the control...
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Bryan Pendleton: Mobile broadband for a small team
Suppose you have 2 (or 3 or 4) people who want to travel together, working on a fairly large project (sufficiently large that you want local data and computing power, not just "the cloud"), and you...
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Nick Kew: November – back to normal!
The Big Freeze is all over the news. Yep, we have frost as early in the season as November! That’s in contrast to many recent years like 2006/7 or 2007/8. It’s even a contrast to last winter’s real...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Apache Con – last day
Day three of Apache Con started with interesting talks on Tomcat 7, including an introduction to the new features of that release. Those include better memory leak prevention and detection capabilities...
View ArticleJames Duncan: ◼ Terror Attempt in Portland
It’s with more than a slight sigh of relief that I read in the New York Times and The Oregonian about a terror attack that didn’t happen last night in Portland. My current hometown seems like an...
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Tom White: My favourite talk at Devoxx 2010
I went to Devoxx in Antwerp for the first time this year, and really enjoyed it. I didn't go to that many talks, but the quality seemed very high. My favourite talk was "Performance Anxiety" by Josh...
View ArticleGlen Mazza: Web Service Links (28 November 2010)
Web service related links of interest this week: Talend Acquires Sopera, Gets $34 Million in Funding - eCRM Guide (Nov. 2010) Validate a JAXB Object Model With an XML Schema - Blaise Doughan's Blog...
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Mukul Gandhi: XML Schema 1.1: complexType restriction rules
I've been excited enough to write now about the new rules that have been specified in XML Schema 1.1 spec regarding type derivations between XML Schema complexType definitions and what is Xerces-J's...
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Bryan Pendleton: Paul Randal's amazing Bald Eagle pictures from Alaska
Paul Randal, who is best known for being one of the best writers and teachers about SQL Server, is also a tremendous photographer, and he recently posted some pictures from his trip to Alaska.You have...
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