Daniel Kulp: Talend welcomes Glen Mazza…
I kind of feel bad about not blogging this earlier in the week, but it’s been one of those weeks… On Monday, Glen Mazza officially started at Talend. For those of you that are not familiar with him,...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-12-10
Flattr – Social micropayments : click a “Flattr” button on content-creator websites, pay a monthly $5 fee, and the content creators get a share of your $5. Very interesting, and seems well thought out...
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Tim Bish: ActiveMQ-CPP v3.2.4 Released
ActiveMQ-CPP v3.2.4 is out now. This release addresses some issues with the CMSTemplate classes and fixes a Stomp bug that was preventing the client from making connections via stomp. There were also...
View ArticleDavid N. Welton: Rails 3
As a test project, I updated linuxsi.com (in Italian) to Rails 3. So far, I am not terribly impressed. It's nice enough, but the upgrade process was quite painful - there's a lot involved in...
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Niall Pemberton: Java 7 & 8 Votes pass 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...
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Martijn Dashorst: OS X and Java developer sources
With the Java 6 update 22, Apple not only set the internets on fire regarding their deprecation of Java, they also made it very hard for the core Java users on their platform to actually use the old...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Devoxx – Day three
The panel discussion on the future of Java was driven by visitor submitted and voted questions on the current state and future of Java. The general take-aways for me included the clear statement that...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Temperamental Applications
Like Ken, I’ve been experimenting with installing my own mail server. After putting this task aside for a few days, I got back to it just to find dovecot was down. Investigating, I found: Last died...
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Bryan Pendleton: Great essay on waiting in line
Via Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing comes a pointer to this marvelous article about the theory and practice of designing waiting lines for theme park attractions, specifically the waiting lines at Walt...
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Bryan Pendleton: El Nino, La Nina, and the Atmospheric River
In California, around this time of year, we often hear the local weather forecasters discussing El Nino, La Nina, and how the long term forecast for the winter suggests this or that.I've always been...
View ArticleJames Duncan: TEDWomen in the Washington Post →
The Washington Post writes up a review of TEDWomen that not only looks at the event itself, but at TED and its mission of ideas worth spreading. Included in the article is a video clip that features...
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Isabel Drost: Apache Lunch Devoxx
On Twitter I suggested to host an Apache dinner during Devoxx. Matthias Wesendorf of Apache MyFaces was so kind to take up the discussion carrying it over to the Apache community mailing-list. It...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Trading Places →
Trent Nelson had to step away from shooting in the field to work a five month stint as photo editor for the Salt Lake Tribune and found out what it’s like on the other side of the desk.#
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James Duncan: ◼ Errors that Shouldn’t Happen
A couple of days ago, the Wired UK website ran a quick story about Heather Knight and other women speaking on Day 2 at TEDWomen by Christine Ottery. Included in the story is a photo of Heather speaking...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Panasonic GH2 Extra-Tele Mode →
Buried in all of the documentation about digital zoom and this and that—stuff that we typically ignore because digital zoom is a gimmick for stills—is a mode to just use the center pixels on the GH2 to...
View ArticleJames Duncan: What Might a Chinese Diplomatic Leak Look Like →
Thomas Friedman speculates on what a leaked diplomatic cable from the Chinese embassy in Washington DC might look like if it was leaked by an organization like WikiLeaks.#
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Isabel Drost: Teddy in Antwerp
When at Devoxx Teddy went to the city taking a few pictures of the Grote Markt, the Haven as well as the main train station.
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Yoav Shapira: First snowboarding session in years ;)
Yesterday Alli and I went snowboarding. It was my first session in about a decade, since I last went in college. Even back then, I went a bunch of times, but never actually tried to learn the...
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Nick Kew: ARM in the server
I’ve done a fair bit more hacking on ARM lately. This is entirely for my own satisfaction, but it’s good to see that a great deal of server software ports cleanly to it with very little effort. In the...
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James Strachan: Camel in Action is complete!
Just in time for Christmas, my fellow FuseSource colleages Claus and Jon have finished their excellent book, Camel in Action. Congratulations guys!Its a great read & highly recommended if you have...
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