Otis Gospodnetic: Commit Messages as Communication Mechanism
Here's my pet peeve about (bad) commit messages. We work in increasingly geographically distributed teams. We do so in open-source world, and we do so in our regular work. At Sematext, for example,...
View ArticleJames Duncan: ◼ At TEDWomen
This week I’m at TEDWomen in Washington DC with my camera to document a conference dedicated to exploring the question: How are women and girls reshaping the future? Gender is playing an increasing...
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David Calavera: Building Hudson plugins with Mirah, dogfooding
This is the third post of a serie where I try to get the pieces to write Hudson’s plugins with Mirah, you sould read the previous ones to know what’s all about: Building Hudson plugins with Mirah,...
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Adrian Sutton: Commit Messages as Communication Mechanism
I think Otis Gospodnetić has it spot on: IMHO, commit messages are an important piece of the communication puzzle, and I feel they are often neglected or completely not even seen that way. Commit...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Safety in High Energy Physics
Here are the slides that I got into trouble for photographing the safety signs for. Taking pictures of positron research details are clearly a security risk, and I have been put in my place. I shall...
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Apache Wicket Community News: 3 hours of Wicket available from parleys
Recently I gave a 3 hour university talk introducing Apache Wicket at the Devoxx conference in Antwerp, Belgium. The accompanying video website now hosts my talk available from: Introducing Apache...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-12-06
Eric Cantona’s call for a bank run : a French campaign to “bring down the banks” by engineering a massive consumer bank run, tomorrow, Dec 7th. I can see this happening in Ireland if we don’t get an...
View ArticleCommunity Over Code: ApacheCon NA 2010 Wrapup
Along with a few news tidbits today, here’s my long-awaited ApacheCon NA 2010 blog wrapup, featuring highlights from attendees. Isabel Drost did a great series of blog articles about ApacheCon Atlanta,...
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Matt Raible: How I Calculated Ratings for My JVM Web Frameworks Comparison
When I re-wrote my Comparing JVM Web Frameworks presentation from scratch, I decided to add a matrix that allows you to rate a framework based on 20 different criteria. The reason I did this was...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Devoxx – University – Cassandra, HBase
During the morning session FIXME Ellison gave an introduction to the distributed NoSQL database Cassandra. Being generally based on the Dynamo paper from Amazon the key-value store distributes...
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Nick Kew: The miniature mountain
Today we’ve seen fog in the valley. Freezing fog, forming ice in my hair and beard, though not quite the icicles in the eyebrows my teenage self grew in the colder winter of 1978-9. As I walked up...
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Bryan Pendleton: Ubuntu 10.10 kernel hardening, ptrace protection, and GDB...
Today I happened to try to use the gdb debugger to try to attach to an already-running process, and failed:ptrace: Operation not permitted.After a certain amount of bashing-of-head-against-wall and...
View ArticleCommunity Over Code: Java: no longer free as in speech
El Reg has breaking news that the JCP vote on the Java 7/8 JSR’s has passed. Apache and Google voted no, and the rest of the players sadly (but perhaps unsurprisingly) voted yes. This effectively...
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Asankha Perera: What happened to the Cat set amongst the Pigeons? - ESB...
WSO2 Published an article titled "WSO2 ESB Performance (New)" today, after 2 and a half years since the last article on ESB performance - published in June 2008. What's interesting to note is that...
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David Crossley: BarCamp Apache Sydney 2010
I am looking forward to the get together in Sydney this weekend with some ASF people and some others. Please also have your PGP fingerprint ready to exchange.
View ArticleBrian McCallister: The TCK Trap
You want to fork the OpenJDK. You look at the license, see that it is GPLv2, say “woot!” and start hacking. You add the important optimization to your fork which you need, and now want to release it....
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Bryan Pendleton: Progress in logging systems
Twenty years ago, I made my living writing the transaction logging components of storage subsystems for database systems. This is a specialty within a specialty within a specialty:Database systems,...
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Olivier Lamy: Gwt Maven Plugin 2.1.0-1 Released
The Gwt Maven Plugin 2.1.0-1 has been released.38 issues has been fixed (full changelog).New features :* AppEngine Launch* Css Interface Generator* More Gwt compiler options : -compileReport,...
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Claus Ibsen: Camel 2.6 - Improved management of custom processors and beans
I think its time for a non book related blog entry so here goes. I have been having "fun" with the JMX API lately. I wont get into how utterly SUN managed to mess up from framework developer point of...
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Adrian Sutton: aria-labelledby vs aria-label
In ARIA, there are two ways that you can attach a label to an element, aria-label and aria-labelledby. In theory, you should use aria-labelledby if the text is visually on-screen somewhere and this...
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