Justin Mason: Links for 2010-12-22
Your Country Your Call: How bloggers pushed a story into the media limelight : good round-up on this FF quango fiasco (tags: fianna-fail bloggers ireland politics ycyc lobbying quangos)
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Apache Hadoop - Trainings by Cloudera in Berlin
Cloudera is offering trainings both for Administrators as well as for Developers early next year in Berlin. If your are getting started in using Apache Hadoop this might be a great option to get your...
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Edward J. Yoon: [Note] Several problems where Apache Hama can be used
Web Graph Structure Mining Social Network Analysis Information Flow On Social Network (finding top-K influential nodes) Evolution Of Social Network High Level Machine Learning (Bioinformatics, Chemical...
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Martijn Dashorst: Oracle tells JCP EC to fuck off and bow to its will
In the published minutes of the JCP EC meeting in Bonn last October, the complete (might I say epic) failure of Oracle’s Java Community stewardship becomes visible (emphasis mine): Doug asked Oracle to...
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Yoav Shapira: Restaurant review: Basho
Last night Alli and I went to Basho to celebrate our monthly date night. Although it was a wintry Wednesday night and the restaurant was only half-full, we had a great time. The first thing that...
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David Valeri: How I learned to stop worrying and love OS X for Java development
I recently acquired a nice 17 inch MacBook Pro to replace my not too old but way too bogged down Windows machine. I’ve primarily been developing in Java on the Windows platform for eight years. In...
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Nick Kew: Debian breaking Apache
Uh-oh. Debian has a history of going its own way and confusing its users. So when someone @debian writes this, I fear what might follow, and I want to suggest they at least read and consider this...
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Olivier Lamy: XMas for hudson users
Done maven3 support branch in hudson has been merged in master : https://github.com/hudson/hudson .The maven native plugin will now supports maven 3 builds too.It will be part of the next release...
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Isabel Drost: White Christmas
Christmas brought “a little surprise” to Germany last night: The result this morning: a few cm (as in about 20) of snow - that is a white christmas everyone had been looking forward to. Just one...
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Bryan Pendleton: Traditional DBMS techniques in the NoSQL age
Nowadays the so-called "NoSQL" techniques are all the rage. Everywhere you look it's Dynamo, Cassandra, BigTable, MongoDB, etc. Everybody seems to want to talk about relaxed consistency, eventual...
View ArticleGlen Mazza: Web Services Links (26 December 2010)
Web service related links of interest this week: XSPA Profile of WS-Trust for Healthcare Receives Approval as OASIS Standard - TradingMarkets.com news release (Dec. 2010) CXF/Metro WS-Trust interop -...
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Edward J. Yoon: Now I'm a user of HBase.
Today, I've changed the database of my toy project, a URL shortener service, from the MySQL to the Apache HBase. It seems run well with my Java real-time web application. Actually, it's not my first...
View ArticleOrtwin Glück: [Updates] Anti-patterns: assuming a cheap timer call
This section has been added to my anti patterns page.
View ArticleOrtwin Glück: [Updates] Date/Time: computer clocks
I have added a paragraph about computer clocks to my date/time article. Also the paragraph about time zones has been given more love.
View ArticleOrtwin Glück: [Updates] Linux on the iMac
I have published a new page on running Linux on my iMac.
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Yoav Shapira: Snowboarding at Sunday River (2010 edition)
This is a very detailed account of our recent snowboarding trip. It's mostly intended for my own self, for my records, so that years from now when I'm a better snowboarder, I can look back at this and...
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Rodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Finally moved to Enlightenment E17/DR17
After years of reluctance, I have finally decided to completely migrate from Enlightenment E16/DR16 to version E17. The main issue keeping me from making the change was the loss of desk viewports....
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Projects update
With Red Hat shut down for this week between Christmas and New Year's, I hope to get a little bit done on some of my projects. Of course, it's an ever-changing list, but here are some of the current...
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Chris Pepper: Brooklyn Blizzard!
We got back as the much-anticipated blizzard was beginning. It snowed all afternoon and plenty stuck. Lots of shoveling!
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Juan Jose Pablos: La guerra de los moviles
This is how smartphone users see each other: iPhone vs. Android vs. BlackBerry
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