Justin Mason: Links for 2010-12-20
Independent Media Sites in Belarus Reportedly Hijacked During Election, SSL Blocked : duplicate (fake) news sites created, possibly to put out fake stories; also interesting that international HTTPS...
View ArticleOrtwin Glück: [Updates] MacBook Pro with 2.6.37
I have updated my MacBook Pro page with information regarding the latest kernels and radeon KMS.
View ArticleNick Kew: Dismal light
Last night at 4a.m. came a big clap of thunder. I got up to go and disconnect all electronic equipment from the mains power, in case of a damaging spike. Going back to bed, I notice it’s a lot lighter...
View ArticleJames Duncan: The Secret to Apple’s Success →
John Hudson at the Atlantic speculates that one component of Apple’s success is the way that they refer to their products. I’d noticed this a long time ago, but didn’t think much of it.#
View ArticleJames Duncan: The Ocean’s SOS →
It’s easy to put FUD into the discussion around atmospheric CO2. The science is complex and we don’t know where the tipping points are our how the bad effects might manifest. By contrast, the oceanic...
View ArticleClaus Ibsen: Camel 2.6 - Using done files with file/ftp components
The upcoming 2.6 release of Apache Camel now supports using "done files" with the file/ftp components. The "done file" is a marker file which signals that the target file is ready for the consumer. You...
View ArticleRobert Burrell Donkin: Graduation Day, Manchester 2010
Snowy Thursday for the graduation (party), cold but good to catch up. Postgraduate diploma in Advanced Computer Science (with distinction) expected by post early new year. and some more...
View ArticleBen Laurie: Is Openleaks The Next Haystack?
As everyone who’s even half-awake knows by now, a bunch of people who used to work on Wikileaks have got together to work on Openleaks. From what I hear, Openleaks is going to be so much better than...
View ArticleColm O hEigeartaigh: Talend Service Factory CE released
The first release of the Talend Service Factory CE has been announced. For more information see here:Talend Service Factory Community Edition provides users with an easy-to-use solution for service...
View ArticleColm O hEigeartaigh: New Santuario / XML Security releases
There have been two new releases in the last month or so in Santuario / XML Security.XML Security (Java) 1.4.4 was released in November. This release contains some enhancements to the resolver API's....
View ArticleNick Kew: Windows revisited
I’ve recently had an enquiry about something on Windows Vista. A day or two later I realised I do have a machine with a Vista partition, so I booted into it to investigate. First impression: my god,...
View ArticleGuillaume Nodet: Thoughts about ServiceMix
I’ve been involved in ServiceMix, the Open Source ESB, nearly since its inception. ServiceMix was started by James Strachan and Rob Davies in May 2005 and the 1.0 version was released in August 2005. I...
View ArticleYoav Shapira: Three quick wine reviews
Last Friday night Alli and I hosted some friends for dinner. This blog post is a brief recap of the three wines we had. None of these were stellar, unfortunately, although one was very interesting and...
View ArticleBruce Snyder: 50% Off ActiveMQ In Action!
The ActiveMQ In Action book has made available a new early access release before going into final review and copy editing. All 14 chapters are included in this MEAP release. For a limited time you can...
View ArticleBruce Snyder: EIP Patterns in OmniGraffle
If you use OmniGraffle and you haven't checked out Graffletopia yet, do it now! Graffletopia is full of stencils galore for OmniGraffle that have been created by folks in the community. Sadly, our...
View ArticleBruce Snyder: Last Day to Get 40% Off of ActiveMQ in Action
Today is the last day to get 40% off of ActiveMQ in Action (either print+ebook or just ebook). Just use the coupon code activemq40 to get the discount at the time of checkout. Hurry!UPDATE: I've just...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Emacs and terminal fonting
My new work environment (contracting at Red Hat) has resulted in a number of changes in how I do things, including: Using a second monitor on my laptop; Switching from Enlightenment E16 to E17 so I...
View ArticleColm O hEigeartaigh: CXF/Metro WS-Trust interop
Glen Mazza has done some excellent work on creating and documenting an example of how to use CXF to obtain a SAML token from a Metro STS and use it to invoke on a Metro endpoint. Unfortunately, it...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: Sterling on Assange
I've been mostly baffled by the WikiLeaks saga; I didn't know what it meant, and I've been waiting for someone capable of doing a "deep reading", as they say in literature classes.Today, along comes...
View ArticleGlen Mazza: JAX-RS Intro Sample for Talend Service Factory (CXF)
The JAX-RS Intro sample within the Talend Service Factory examples download provides an out-of-the-box REST service and client that can be hosted on standalone Tomcat, embedded Jetty, or an...
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