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Yoav Shapira: Movie review: The Social Network, Wintervention, North Face
I've seen three good movies recently. They are very different from each other. This blog post has a brief review of each. They are in the order I watched them. The Social Network is about Facebook,...
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Yoav Shapira: Restaurant review: Towne
Last week Alli and I went to Towne, a newish restaurant by the Hynes Convention Center in Boston's Back Bay. It was a Tuesday night, but the restaurant was still fairly busy, and the bar was hopping....
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Yoav Shapira: The Harvard - Yale game, 2010 edition
Alli and I went to the Harvard - Yale annual football game last week. It was our second time at "The Game," as they call it, following the 2008 edition. We're not big college football fans, so we go...
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Isabel Drost: Teddy in Atlanta
While I was happily attending Apache Con US in Atlanta/GA my teddy had a closer look at the city: He first went to the centennial olympic park, took a picture of the world of coca-cola (wondering what...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop on Sale →
Rob Galbraith has the scoop on Adobe’s sale of Lightroom and Photoshop. Save $100 on Lightroom or Photoshop or $200 off Photoshop Extended. There are also discounts on Photoshop upgrades. The deal is...
View ArticleJames Duncan: The FBI Thwarts its own Terrorist Plot →
Glenn Greenwald takes apart the immediate response to the Portland bomb plot. He points out that in the coverage so far, there’s been a lack of questioning or skepticism by the media, especially with...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Metatheaming the Daily Shoot →
After responding to three different Daily Shoot assignments with a black and white, Björn Lindström decided to make it a seven-day stretch. He’s five days in and I totally dig it.#
View ArticleApache Velocity news: Velocity Engine 1.7 released
The Velocity developers are pleased to announce the release of Velocity Engine 1.7.Since 1.6, there has been a lot of work: #@body()content#end, #[[literal content]]#, major namespacing changes,...
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Bryan Pendleton: TritonSort benchmark for Indy GraySort
25 years ago, Jim Gray started benchmarking sort performance, and the efforts continue, as sort performance is a wonderful tool for incrementally advancing the state of the art of systems performance....
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Steve Loughran: Datamining over community
It's a long standing position of mine never to fill in any surveys about coding, as the development tooling -the repository, the bug tracker, knows the answers. I'm pleased to see, therefore, coverage...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Christmas Scrumtisch
Today the last Scrumtisch Berlin in 2010 took place in Friedrichshain. Thanks to Marion Eickmann and Andrea Tomasini for organising the Scrum user group regularly for the past years. Though no...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Apache Con – Wrap up
After one week of lots of interesting input the ASF’s user conference was over. With a focus on Apache software users quite a few talks are not too well suited for conference regulars but more or less...
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Bryan Pendleton: Two tidbits of computer security news today
The New York Times has been digging into the WikiLeaks cable traffic, and reports that the leaked documents appear to confirm that China's Politburo ordered the Google hacking intrusions:China’s...
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Nick Kew: Downsizing
Deprived of my 24″ monitor from Sun, last night I pressed my older 19″ monitor back into service. That gives me a month to live with it and decide whether I feel the need to upgrade back to something...
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Trustin Lee: How to disable font hinting in Swing (or how to strip hints from...
In my GNOME desktop, I disable hinting or set hinting level to ‘slight’. The hinting level beyond ‘slight’ (i.e. ‘moderate’ or ‘full’) makes glyph look too thin to read easily. Moreover, especially...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-11-30
WikiLeaks Archive: A CAUCASUS WEDDING : Dagestan knows how to party. ‘The main activity of the day was eating and drinking — starting from 4 p.m., about eight hours worth, all told — punctuated, when...
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Luciano Resende: InfoQ: Service Component Architecture – State of the Union
Nice to see others embracing and evangelizing about Service Component Architecture (SCA). In this session, Clemens Utschig-Utschig presents the Service Component Architecture (SCA), the component model...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Mahout in Action
Flying to Atlanta I finally had a few hours of time to finalize the review of the Mahout in Action MEAP edition. The book is intended for potential users of the Apache Mahout, a project focussing on...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Hudson work
I have a new phone, a palm-pre. Linux-based. It is a "Smart Phone", with a nice screen and the ability to get work and play emails. I get lots of emails on my work account. They usually come from the...
View ArticleTed Leung: NewTeeVee 2010
I’ve been doing a lot of traveling in November, including some conferences. Here’s some information from NewTeeVee. I dropped into NewTeeVee because I’m doing a lot with video and television these...
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