Steve Loughran: Nehalem power issues
Bryan Pendleton points to some interesting Commentary discussing Nehalem Power step down, and generally criticising the BIOS, OS and CPU for stepping down the CPU voltage. I don't agree with all the...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Mockingjay
I just finished reading Mockingjay, the third book of the Hunger Games trilogy. These are, without much competition, the best books I've read this year.They've been on my reading list for a long time,...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-12-31
The 2011 Cricket World Cup: A Documentary : my mate Sush is looking to fund ‘a documentary set in India during the World Cup of Cricket in 2011 about Indian cricket fans and their personal stories.’...
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Ted Leung: 2010 in Photography
Once again it is time for a summary of the year in photos. For 2010, I decided that I was going to try and do “The Daily Shoot” every day. On the whole this was a good experience for me. The variety of...
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Mukul Gandhi: Happy New Year 2011
I wish readers of this blog a very Happy New Year 2011.My new year resolutions are to have more interactions with the online community, particularly with folks at XML, XML Schema, XSL and XQuery...
View ArticleRobert Burrell Donkin: It's Tech Up North
I'm blogging content with a more parochial feel at itstechupnorth. Good luck for this new year.
View ArticleSteve Loughran: The end of IE6?
2011 started with some paypal phishing spam hitting my inbox. Nothing special there, until you look at the text -----Original Message----- From: PayPal [mailto:limited@paypal.com] Sent: 31 December...
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Sanjiva Weerawarana: Congratulations Dr. Jaliya Ekanayake!
It gives me great personal pleasure to congratulate Jaliya on completing his Ph.D.in Computer Science from Indiana University in late December. His PhD work was on extending the applicability of Map...
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Niall Pemberton: Commons IO 2.0.1 Released
The Apache Commons team has announced the release of Commons IO 2.0.1 which can be downloaded here.
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Warren Togami: DNSBL Safety Report 1/2/2011
This blog will occasionally look at the weekly DNSBL masscheck statistics. Our measures indicate that the performance and safety of the smaller DNSBL's can vary wildly from month to month. If you...
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Hiranya Jayathilaka: From Fleet Week Air Show
Here are some pictures from the Fleet Week air show held on last October at San Francisco port. The main attraction of the event were the renowned Blue Angels. (Sorry about the sloppy pictures. I’m not...
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Bryan Pendleton: Postcards from the bleeding edge
The results of some cross-firing neurons this morning:First, from a short article in the ACM Queue regarding the performance of the NFS networking protocols across trans-oceanic links, Bound by the...
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Claus Ibsen: Apache Camel - 2010 in numbers
Last year I did this blog post about numbers for 2009, so I thought I should do it again this year. Just to do a quick post on some of the numbers for the Apache Camel project in year 2010. Number of...
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Ian Boston: Testing Sparse
The depressing thing about profiling and load testing is the more you do it, the more problem you discover. In Nakamura I have now ported the content pool (amorphous pool of content identified by ID...
View ArticleSam Ruby: xml5
xml5@github: Ruby port of Anne van Kesteren’s xml5@googlecode. lib.py$ python test.py #document | <test> (, test, ) | "This sample shows a error-prone method." lib.py$ python testrunner.py All...
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Tony Stevenson: Project 365 – Day 3
The image today is of Alice’s old metronome that she used whilst learning to play the piano as a child. Project 365 – Day 3
View ArticleJasha Joachimsthal: Freemarker as HST rendering template
The common templating engine for HST sites is JSP. Most Java web developers know it and there are plenty of libraries available. However JSP is not the only possibility to render your page. Woonsan...
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Jeroen Reijn: Jboss ModeShape: A federating JCR repository
Some interesting stuff is happing in the JCR community. With Apache Jackrabbit 2.0.0 out (with JCR 2.0) and an interesting project called Jboss ModeShape almost reaching it's final 1.0 release....
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Tony Stevenson: Project 365 – Day 4
Today’s image is of a photo taken at our wedding, back in September 2007. We had a canvas print made and it hangs in our living room. Project 365 – Day 4 – A canvas print of a photo taken at our...
View ArticleDave Johnson: Apache Roller 5.0 RC3
On the last day of 2010, I made available the third release candidate for Apache Roller 5.0. The main difference between this new candidate and the previous one is that the new RC3 runs on Java EE 6...
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