Sam Ruby: SQLite3::CorruptException: database disk image is malformed
Call for testers. In addition to making sure that the scenarios described in Agile Web Development with Rails work with Rails 3.0, I’m monitoring the development on Rails 3.1. At the present time, I...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Devoxx – Day two – Caching
Day two started with a really good talk on caching architectures by Greg Luck. He first motivated why caching works: Even with SSIDs being available now there is still a huge performance gap between...
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Bryan Pendleton: Mathematical doodling
This combines two of the best things in the entire world: mathematics, and doodling!ALL mathematics classes should be like this!
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Hiranya Jayathilaka: Apache Xerces2/J 2.11.0 Released
The Apache Xerces project team is pleased to announce that version 2.11.0 of Apache Xerces-J is now available.Xerces-J 2.11.0 can be downloaded at: http://xerces.apache.org/mirrors.cgiThis release...
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Isabel Drost: Apache Mahout Meetup in San Jose
A few hours ago the Mahout Meetup at MapR Technologies in San Jose/CA ended. Two photos taken at the event leaked - happy to be able to publish them here. More information on the discussions and more...
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David Calavera: Writing Hudson views with Ruby and ERB
If you’ve never heard about something called Jelly it’s the templates engine that Hudson and Stapler, its web framework, use. It’s based in xml and from my point of view it’s quite hard to use. Perhaps...
View ArticleGeir Magnusson Jr.: First Doug, Now Tim
Tim Peierls resigned from the JCP EC (Strange thing about which to start blogging again after a long hiatus, but first steps) I'll have more to say about this debacle in the coming days, but just...
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Bryan Pendleton: White Nose Syndrome report in Wired
The latest issue of Wired has a long and detailed report from the front lines of the battle against White Nose Syndrome. It's a well-written and informative article, but unfortunately not filled with...
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Bryan Pendleton: The slaloming king
Even if you don't know much about chess, you should check out this game. At move 39, Black gives up his rook, realizing that, of his other pieces, only his other rook has legal moves. Therefore, Black...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Devoxx – Day two – Hadoop and HBase
In his session on the current state of Hadoop Tom went into a little more detail not only on the features released in the latest release or on the roadmap for upcoming releases (including Kerberos...
View ArticleChris Pepper: This week's fiasco: Avocent
Today I racked a 1U Avocent LCD tray with 16-port IP-accessible KVM switch (ECS17KMM16-001). What a fiasco! We got it last week, but it took me several days and 3 phone calls before I was told to just...
View ArticleTed Leung: Web 2.0 Summit
This year I was able to go to the Web 2.0 Summit. Web 2.0 is billed as an executive conference, and it lives up to its billing. There is much more focus on business than technology, even though the web...
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Niall Pemberton: Java 7 & 8 Votes passes but 2 more EC members resign
The votes for Java 7 (JSR 336) and Java 8 (JSR 337) both passed but with 3 of the Executive Committee(EC) voting against and half of those voicing their displeasure at the continuing Java licensing...
View ArticleTed Leung: Google Chrome Update
On Tuesday I attended Google’s Chrome update event in San Francisco. There were three topics on the agenda: Chrome, the Chrome Web Store, and ChromeOS. I’m not going to try to go over all the specifics...
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Berin Loritsch: Microsoft, if you're listening, Zip deployment for IIS please...
I’ve been through a lot trying to get NSIS to install prerequisites and deploy a web application, and all I can say is, I miss the simplicity of WAR deployment. So let me explain to you what my...
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Brett Porter: BarCamp Apache Sydney is this Saturday!
Great news – we seem to be getting quite a few last minute registrations for the BarCamp. There’s still time to sign up, or invite a colleague, if you’re coming along! Here’s the details in a nutshell…...
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Matt Raible: A Fun Week in Florida at The Rich Web Experience
Last week, I traveled with my fun-loving company photographer to Fort Lauderdale for The Rich Web Experience. Both my talks were on Wednesday afternoon, so we had plenty of time to enjoy our hotel, the...
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Colm O hEigeartaigh: First post...
I'm planning to use this blog to detail the security-related work I'm doing and planning to do on various open source projects.I am the lead-developer on the forthcoming WSS4J 1.6 release, which has a...
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Claus Ibsen: Upcoming Webinar - Getting started with Camel and deployment...
FuseSource is hosting a live webinar on thursday the 16 th. December 2010. Description: This webinar describes the various deployment options for Apache Camel. Learn how to easily use and leverage the...
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Ian Boston: Programmatic Logging Configuration in OSGi
Although you can configure Logging via configuration files and admin consoles in OSGi, Sling/Felix in this instance, can you do it programatically. First, why would you want to. Well you might have a...
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