Luciano Resende: The Apache Software Foundation Launches "Apache Extras" to...
The Apache Software Foundation and Google have just announced the launch of Apache Extras website. Apache Extras provides a central place for the great user community to look for Apache related...
View ArticlePaul Querna: UDP in Node.js
At Node.js Camp yesterday on UDP in Node.js, and the video got recorded on ustream. Slides for the talk are posted here. All of the example code is posted up on github here. Happy to answer any...
View ArticleGlen Mazza: Talend Service Factory Community Edition Released!
My new company, Talend, has just released today the Apache-licensed Talend Service Factory Community Edition. From the README: Welcome to Talend Service Factory Community Edition!...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Devoxx – Day one – Java, Performance and Devops
In his keynote Mark Reinhold provided some information on the very interesting features to be included in the Java 7 release. Generics will be easier to declare with the diamond operator. Nested...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: Big progress on the San Francisco Bay Bridge
If you're a construction junkie (and what software engineer isn't?), it's been an exciting fall for the San Francisco Bay Bridge replacement project. This week, the crews began hoisting the third of...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: Apache Derby 10.7 has been released
The 10.7 release of the Apache Derby project is now live on the Apache website!Congratulations to the Derby team, they continue to do wonderful work! I didn't have many direct contributions to this...
View ArticleDaniel Kulp: Talend Service Factory released….
A month ago, it was announced that Talend had acquired Sopera. At the time, many people wondered what that really meant as Talend specialized in Data Integration and Mangement technologies and Sopera...
View ArticleDavid Crossley: Apache Forrest release plan preparation
Hooray, we are preparing the release plan for Forrest now on the dev mail list. Please help to get the product ready.
View ArticleDavid Valeri: Using NSS for FIPS 140-2 compliant message security in CXF
If you have ever supported a client in the US Government, civil or otherwise, you have probably heard of the FIPS 140-2 compliance requirements for cryptographic operations. If you haven’t, stick...
View ArticleGeir Magnusson Jr.: Strong types
Strong types are the hobnailed boot of the Enterprise Man on the neck of the Agile Code Poet. (been tossing this around internally and on private lists... )
View ArticlePaul Querna: Rackspace acquires Cloudkick
Cloudkick has been acquired by Rackspace. I am extremely excited. The official post over on Cloudkick has all the important information. It’s been a wild and crazy 17 months since I joined Cloudkick....
View ArticleTed Husted
Nimble Analysis ...The Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) lays out great strategies for eliciting and documenting requirements. To keep our own software projects on track, at NimbleUser we...
View ArticleAdrian Sutton: Moving on from Ephox
I joined Ephox back in May 2002 and over the past eight-and-a-half years have had the pleasure of working with some of the most talented, dedicated, passionate and supportive people I’m ever likely to...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: Lights theory
OK, so where do I go for a basic introduction to the theory and practice of Christmas tree lights?In particular, where can I find a self-help guide that covers topics such as:When part, but not all, of...
View ArticleBruce Snyder: ActiveMQ and Tomcat Articles + 40% Discount on ActiveMQ In Action
As I mentioned here in late October, ActiveMQ In Action entered Manning's pre-production process, the final process of review and editing before actually printing the book. While working through this...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-12-16
opendata.ie : ‘to help citizens access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Irish Government and public sector authorities; to improve access to the Irish Government data and to...
View ArticleHoward M. Lewis Ship: Announcing Tapestry 5.2
I'm very proud to announce that the next major release of Tapestry, release 5.2, is now available as Tapestry version 5.2.4. This is the first stable release of Tapestry since 5.1.0.5 (back in April...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Survivability
Eric Marcoullier: Aaaaaand that’s all she wrote for Delicious and MyBlogLog Just when I was starting to wonder whether self-hosting my email was going to be a good idea or not, this happens. I still...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: Insert Coin
Perhaps the best part of this delightful video homage to old video games is the end, where the two artists describe the behind-the-scenes techniques that they used to make the video.
View ArticleGlen Mazza: Changing the language used by Mozilla Thunderbird
Ubuntu Linux allows for easily changing the user interface language to suit your preference. However, once done, the Mozilla Thunderbird email client unfortunately (in my case) follows along, making...
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