Igor Galić: Open Source is my MMORPG
I don't play computer games. I lack every talent to do so. Instead I waste my time on Open Source.
View ArticleJames Duncan: Wil Shipley Interviews TSA Chairman John Pistole →
Every once in a while, I think about easing up on the TSA links, posts, and tweets. But then Wil goes off on a rant in an interview format with John Pistole. Besides, this is an issue that needs to be...
View ArticleJames Duncan: ◼ A Mellow Houston Intercontinental TSA Report
Today was a travel day that started at the Houston’s Intergalactic Airport (IAH). I dropped off the rental car, checked in at the counter, and then as I was walking up to security I saw that a...
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Nick Kew: The webserver on a ‘phone
Yesterday I successfully built Apache APR and HTTPD (the webserver) on my pocket-’puter, a Nokia N900, also known as a smartphone. The prerequisite to that was to install a development environment. I...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Signs of our/their times
Regardless of your age, checking out the Beloit College Mindset List can serve as a startling sanity check. It goes back to the 'class of 2002,' which referred to freshmen enrolling in the year 1998....
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-12-01
Barry Eichengreen on the Irish bailout : ‘The Irish “program” solves exactly nothing – it simply kicks the can down the road. A public debt that will now top out at around 130 per cent of GDP has not...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Ruby Struct conundrum
Ruby has this delightful feature which permits you to 'open' an existing class and add (or redefine, or remove) methods and other aspects of it. Ruby also has a sort of quick&dirty class concept...
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Isabel Drost: Teddy in Lisbon
After Apache Con I spent a few days in Lisbon for Codebits. The conference is not developers-only. It is more of a mixture of hacking event, conference, exhibition. Though the location was not optimal...
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Eran Chinthaka: Usage Patterns to Provision for Scientific Experiments in Clouds
My paper presentation at CloudCom 2010 on "Usage Patterns to Provision for Scientific Experiments in Clouds".AbstractDriven by the need to provision resources on demand, scientists are turning to...
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Adrian Sutton: Re: Tricks for ARIA on the iPad/iOS
Brad Neuberg has a post up about ARIA on the iPad and some of the tricks he’s used to bend it to his will. Blogger won’t accept my OpenID to comment on the post for some reason so I’ll add some...
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Ben Laurie: P2P DNS
Apparently the Pirate Bay are tired of ICANN and want to start their own peer-to-peer DNS. I think their chances of wide adoption are pretty near zero, but it’s an interesting area that’s needed...
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Andrew Savory: Friend of GNOME
Did you know you can get an lwn.net subscription if you become a friend of GNOME? Seems like a bargain to me.
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-12-02
The Effectiveness of Test Driven Development (TDD) : huh. Test-driven development is slower than traditional write-first-test-at-the-end development, but it results in less bugs. Grokcode theorise...
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James Duncan: ◼ Helping Ideas Spread
It’s certainly been a privilege to shoot the many conferences I’ve photographed over the last five or six years. It’s not easy work. The hours are long. There are a lot of competing demands. Often, the...
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Rich Bowen: Write some poetry
For a couple years now, I've participated in a site called The Weekend Wordsmith. Someone (usually me) posts a word, and people write something that it inspires - poetry, prose, a picture ... pretty...
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Edward J. Yoon: [NOTE] The volatile keyword in Java
It's probably fair to say that on the whole, the volatile keyword in Java is poorly documented, poorly understood, and rarely used. To make matters worse, its formal definition actually changed as of...
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David Calavera: Building Hudson plugins with Mirah, baby steps
This is the second post of a serie where I try to get the pieces to write Hudson’s plugins with Mirah, you sould read the first one to know what’s all about: Building Hudson plugins with Mirah, ROUND 1...
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Robert Burrell Donkin: Apache Retreat, IBM Hursley, 2010
littering dark the winter snow memories of colourful summer and some more ...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Amazon cloudwatch
Amazon provide Cloudwatch, health checking for EC2 apps. Question is, where you fit phone calls from senior government members into your cloud-health monitoring? I'd imagine some service that AWS run...
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