Sam Ruby: IBM Open Client RHEL 6
Periodically I try the various internal distributions IBM provides for Linux, and each time in the past I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m better off sticking with the public distribution. Until...
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Bertrand Delacretaz: On speaking in URLs
I’ve seen about five examples just today where speaking in URLs (I spoke about that before, slide 27) would have saved people from misunderstandings, and avoided wasting our collective time. When...
View ArticleMatt Raible: My Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Online Video...
This week I've had the pleasure of speaking at The Rich Web Experience in Fort Lauderdale. I did two talks, one on Comparing JVM Web Frameworks and one titled Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-12-03
Bailout will sink Ireland before we can even swim | David McWilliams : ‘This is not capitalism, it is not European diplomacy; it is a stitch-up.’ Adding another voice in favour of default — starting...
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Michael McCandless: Using Finite State Transducers in Lucene
FSTs are finite-state machines that map a term (byte sequence) to an arbitrary output. They also look cool:That FST maps the sorted words mop, moth, pop, star, stop and top to their ordinal number (0,...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Devoxx Antwerp
With 3000 attendees Devoxx is the largest Java Community conference world-wide. Each year in autumn it takes place in Antwerp/ Belgium, in recent years in the Metropolis cinema. The conference tickets...
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Bryan Pendleton: Perforce 2010.2 enters Beta testing
I'm pleased to see that the 2010.2 version of the Perforce Server is now online and available for testing. If you aren't familiar with the notion of Beta test, here's the wikipedia definition.I'm...
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Ian Boston: Java Web Start for server applications
If you want to make a Java Web Start distribution of a web application server built by maven, the there is a neat plugin to make it a bit easier, webstart-maven-plugin from org.codehaus. However, even...
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Ian Boston: Solr 4 OSGi Bundle
I need a Solr bundle to provide search capabilities to my app, but I want it to work in a cluster, and I have to have near real time search indexing, so using SolrJ4 makes sense. On the Solr 4 road map...
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Olivier Lamy: Gwt Maven Plugin 2.1.0-1 Staged
Yeah ! The Gwt Maven Plugin 2.1.0-1 has been staged (and release vote started [1] )Release Notes : http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=11860&version=16878Staging repo :...
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Isabel Drost: Devoxx University – Productive programmer, HBase
The first day at Devoxx featured several tutorials – most interesting to me was the pragramatic programmer. The speaker also is the author of the equally named book at O’Reilly. The book was the result...
View ArticleGavin McDonald: Upgrading DRAC 5 firmware on a Dell R300 with Ubuntu
So after upgrading my Windows box to Windows 7 and IE8 I lost the ability to use the remote console in my DRAC 5. The DRAC is connected to a Dell R300 server, not that I need to use it much but...
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Yoav Shapira: A masked ball!
Last night Alli and I went to the Harvard masked / masquerade ball. It took place at the Harvard Club and it was a lot of fun. It's basically a fancy-ish party (black tie optional) where people also...
View ArticleIgor Galić: Rest for the Restless
Looking through these posts, I stumbled over a draft from over a year ago. With my last travel fresh in mind, I find it somehow fitting. Even though I might have thought it incomplete then, it very...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Gitosis is not a disease
So of the four things I want to get done this weekend, one's off the list: Set up Gitosis Finish moving my many gigabytes of mail to IMAP Get my SSL infrastructure completed Get my LDAP infrastructure...
View ArticleGlen Mazza: Web Services Links (5 December 2010)
Web service related links of interest this week: RESTful Java with JAX-RS - Book by Bill Burke (O'Reilly, 2009) An Introduction to Creating RESTful Web Services Using Jersey and Java - Bruce Phillips...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Making JQuery TableSorter work with XHTML
Tablesorter fails with thead is undefined when used within content served as application/xhtml+xml. The fix is simple: lowercase the tag names, as recommended. Replacement jquery.tablesorter.js and...
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Isabel Drost: Frau Holle, Frau Holle
Winter arrived in Germany - below a few pictures I took last Thursday morning: Seems like this season winter is trying real hard to prove that I am wrong saying that there is no real winter in Berlin...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Devoxx University – MongoDB, Mahout
The second tutorial was given by Roger Bodamer on MongoDB. It concentrates on being horizontally scalable by avoiding joins and complex, multi document transactions. It supports a new data model that...
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Justin Mason: I made a sled
Facing yet another day of being snowed in, with Dublin’s icy roads and footpaths driving us all stir crazy, I came up with this: More pics, vid — fun!
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