Sam Ruby: 21st Century Customer Support
Had a Time Warner cable and internet outage for about 17 hours. Power, Dish, Phone, and Verizon (including MiFi) remained up. Time Warner’s phone system was able to do voice recognition and confirm...
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Bryan Pendleton: Fish Fillets
Oh my, I am completely 100% addicted to Fish Fillets! I've always loved puzzle games, and this one is superb.Thank you ALTAR Interactive for allowing the world to continue to enjoy your delightful game!
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Grant Ingersoll: Lucid Imagination » The Apache Lucene Ecosystem: My View of...
I posted my thoughts on the year 2010 as they relate to Lucene over at Lucid Imagination » The Apache Lucene Ecosystem: My View of 2010.
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Ruby talks at ConFoo
I submitted three session proposals to ConFoo this year. (Actually, I submitted them really late, but the organisers were very forgiving.) Two of them got accepted, so all things working out I should...
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Hiranya Jayathilaka: Exploring the History of the Silicon Chip
A few weeks back I visited the Intel Musuem along with my colleagues Sumedha and Nuwan. The museum is located at Intel’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California- the heart of Silicon Valley. It...
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Mukul Gandhi: Schema based XML compare
David A. Lee (producer of XMLSH -- A command line shell for XML) raised an interesting discussion a while ago on XML-DEV mailing list, about how to do XML Schema aware XML document comparison. The...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin - January 2011
This is to announce the next Apache Hadoop Get Together sponsored by Cloudera and Zanox that will take place in the Zanox Event Campus in Berlin. When: January 27th 2011, 6p.m. Where: zanox Event...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: Is it time to switch back to IntelliJ?
I've been trying to stick with Eclipse now for a while. I switched from IntelliJ 8 to Eclipse because IntelliJ stopped working for Tapestry (I still don't know why) and because my fingers were getting...
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Nick Kew: Welcome to the World
to my new nephew, Philip, born 27/12/2010 in Auckland, NZ. And best wishes to your parents, my brother and sister-in-law, too. It’s rather a long way to follow a star to your cradle, but I look...
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Bryan Pendleton: The 2010 One Page Dungeon Contest
A nice posting over at Greg Costikyan's Play This Thing alerted me to the 2010 One Page Dungeon contest.There are a lot of entrants, and I'm not really much of a tabletop RPG player, so most of the...
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David Calavera: JRuby `to_java` by example
One of the JRuby killer features is that we can use Java classes into our Ruby code as they were Ruby classes. This is the foundation for hundred of projects, take your favourite Java library and...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Monitoring Working Directories
As git gives me no excuse not to, pretty much everything I do is now under version control, be it scripts, web pages, configuration files, personal applications or clones of projects that are hosted...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-12-29
One of the ICE domain seizures was a legit mp3 blog, posting legal promo mp3s : At least one of the sites seized by DHS was an mp3 blog which posted authorised, promotional mp3s, sent from record...
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Bryan Pendleton: Learning from the Skype outage
I'm not much of a Skype user recently, but in the past I used it quite a bit; it's a great service!So I wasn't much impacted by last week's Skype system outages, but I was still interested, because...
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Bryan Pendleton: Where set theory meets topical humor
It's topical! It's set theory! It's humorous! I won't be the first person to link to this, but even if you can barely spell "Venn diagram" you'll enjoy reading this nice short essay.
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Warren Togami: CACHEREDIR Rule: Prevent Google cache redirector abuse
UPDATED: 12/31/2010 - now catches more variations For the past month or more spammers have been abusing Google's cache as a link redirector. Normally if a spammer includes links in their message body,...
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Adrian Sutton: Controlling Wrapping in CSS3 Columns
CSS3 introduces the very handy columns support which is implemented in WebKit and Firefox browsers going back a fair way and degrades gracefully in all browsers that don’t support it (which appears to...
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Bryan Pendleton: The American healthcare system is annoying
Groan. It's things like this that make me almost willing to move to England, or New Zealand, or Denmark, or someplace that has a decent view of the importance of healthcare to a society.Apparently, the...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Dealing with HTML in Feeds
Frédéric Wang: Issue with self closing MathML tags in planet The problem here is that Frédéric takes the same content that he carefully serves as application/xhtml+xml and places it in Atom feed as...
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Bryan Pendleton: Some situations where power efficiency isn't the desired answer
Here's an interesting collection of inter-related notes about people who were surprised when their brand new spiffy computers were running substantially slower than their old computers:Database...
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