Glen 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...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Mechanize
Bill Stoddard: Ruby hacking over the holidays. Doing some web page scrapes with Mechanize to build an MI database #mechanicalinvesting I’m not sure how this escaped my radar before, but I have a fair...
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Asankha Perera: Enterprise Service Bus [ESB] Comparison: Poll a directory for...
Enterprise Service Bus [ESB] Comparison: Poll a directory for a file and upload it with a HTTP PUT: "Here is an example of a File polling service, which then sends the file to an authenticated HTTP...
View ArticleDavid N. Welton: Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
I got this to read on my trip to Oregon. Initially I was a bit dubious, after reading the chapter headings on Amazon. Indeed, if you read a lot of articles about tech startups, a lot of the material...
View ArticleSam Ruby: MicroXML vs XLink
James Clark: Relative to XML, my objectives for MicroXML are: Compatible: any well-formed MicroXML document should be a well-formed XML document. Simpler and easier: easier to understand, easier to...
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Ben Laurie: ƃuıʇsılʞɔɐlq uʍop-ǝpısd∩
A well-known problem with anonymity is that it allows trolls to ply their unwelcome trade. So, pretty much every decent cryptographic anonymity scheme proposed has some mechanism for blacklisting....
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Mukul Gandhi: Apache Xerces-J 2.11.0 released
I am happy to extend the announcement made by Apache Xerces team few days ago, for the release of new version of Xerces-J (2.11.0) (ref http://markmail.org/message/oom75s3wpebfywh5). This Xerces...
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Jeremy Quinn: dandelion_2@2x [Flickr]
sharkbait posted a photo: One of the wallpapers for my first iPhone App, Radio Dandelion here : app.fiveone.org/dandelion/. The App is a radio streamer that plays a station influenced by the late great...
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Jeremy Quinn: dandelion_4@2x [Flickr]
sharkbait posted a photo: One of the wallpapers for my first iPhone App,Radio Dandelion here : app.fiveone.org/dandelion/. The App is a radio streamer that plays a station influenced by the late great...
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Jeremy Quinn: dandelion_3@2x [Flickr]
sharkbait posted a photo: One of the wallpapers for my first iPhone App, Radio Dandelion here : app.fiveone.org/dandelion/. The App is a radio streamer that plays a station influenced by the late great...
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Jeremy Quinn: Oh Happy Day!!
My first iPhone App is available in the App Store.RADIO Dandelion is an audio streamer coupled with a content discovery engine. It plays the music from a radio station inspired by the late great John...
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James Duncan: ◼ Luma’s Wild Fall Season
The last two months or so has been a wild ride at Luma Labs, the camera accessory company that I’m a co-owner of with Greg Koenig. To give a bit of background, we launched our company with an improved...
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Chris Pepper: 4th Street Nite Owls at Two Boots, December 2010
Tonight Gavin played clarinet in the 4th Street Nite Owls at Two Boots. The music was good and the photos & video (56:10) came out pretty well, considering the poor light -- although Gavin spent...
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Rich Bowen: Dawn Treader
Last night, we saw the new Voyage of the Dawn Treader movie.To say that I was disappointed, would only cover part of it. I'm also perplexed why a movie maker who has proven that they can make a good...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Gabby on Sexism →
Gabby Schulz’s comic on sexism online and how the gender group responses play out. Would be funny if it weren’t spot on from what I’ve seen over the years. #
View ArticleSam Ruby: Filtering the ASF Secretary Inbox
It was only a matter of time, but apparently a few spammers have discovered the Apache Secretary mailing list address. It’s time to integrate SpamAssassin into the Secretary Workflow: import email...
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Olivier Lamy: Using gwt sdk 2.1.1 with Gwt Maven Plugin 2.1.0-1
In the last Gwt Maven Plugin, the gwt sdk used is now the one defined in the Maven plugin dependencies.This means only update your pom dependencies to gwt 2.1.1 won't be enough to compile your project...
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Adrian Sutton: What’s the Point of Browser Colour Settings?
Many browsers include user preferences to select preferred colours for text, backgrounds and links. This is intended as an accessibility feature so that people with limited vision, dyslexia or other...
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Brett Porter: Apache Archiva 1.3.3 released: performance improvements!
If you’re using Archiva for your repository management needs, you should definitely upgrade to the latest release. Download it now! The 1.3.x series has focused on the biggest offenders in memory usage...
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