Tony Stevenson: Project 365 – Day 6
Today’s image is of a small poster Alice and I got several years ago. I struggled today to think of something different, so I took this photo on a bit of whim. Not good.
View ArticleColm O hEigeartaigh: [WSS4J 1.6] Action/Processor loading change
Following on from yesterday's post about changes to crypto property files in WSS4J 1.6, this post details some changes that have been made to how Actions and Processors are loaded in WSS4J. These...
View ArticleDan Poirier: How do I turn off automatic directory listings in Apache?
By default, if Apache maps a request to a directory name rather than a filename (e.g. /var/htdocs/images) and there’s not an index.html file in the directory, Apache will return an HTML page listing...
View ArticleTed Husted
Creating a Facebook Site with Google Apps ...This holiday season saw a landmark event. High profile companies, like Mattel, posting a Facebook site URL in prime-time advertising. As it turns out, you...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: SandForce SSD report from CES
On his AnandTech web site, Anand Lal Shimpi has a report from CES about his impressions of the latest hardware samples of the OCZ Vertex Pro 3 solid state drive technology:OCZ let me run some of my own...
View ArticleSam Ruby: First Impressions: node.js
Edward O’Connor: Fortunately, Node already has an excellent implementation of the HTML5 parser (by Aria Stewart) I find it rather amusing that the first thing I encounter is a bug. This bug was...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Persecution
Apparently one of the side effects of temporal lobe epilepsy is you are prone to "religious experiences". Well, I've had none. I haven't even had any decent atheist ones. Dirac has not appeared to me...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-01-07
Bicycle Safety: How to Not Get Hit by Cars : really quite good advice — all except for “take the whole lane”, which in my experience aggravates drivers and causes road rage and risky behaviour. avoid...
View ArticleNick Kew: Planning permission
What are the criteria for consulting local people over planning applications? When there were major works to build a new apartment block (9 apartments) just across the road, we were not even notified,...
View ArticleEran Chinthaka: Flashing Netgear WNR2000 (v2) with DD-WRT
Finally I got hold of a Netgear WNR2000 (v2) router and changed it to act as a repeater bridge . I can now connect my desktop in a different room to the main wireless modem. Even though this particular...
View ArticleHenri Yandell: The end of a milk era
A short history of the last decade through my eyes; just the critically important items you realize. Late 20th Century: Grow up in the UK. Get great fresh milk delivered to doorstep everyday. Have no...
View ArticleWarren Togami: Usage Limits of Spamassassin Network Tests
UPDATED: 1/8/2011 This article describes free usage limits of network test providers used by Spamassassin, along with recommendations if they are worthwhile to pay for service for sites large enough...
View ArticleMichael McCandless: Finite State Transducers, Part 2
In my last post, I described a cool incremental algorithm for building an FST from pre-sorted input/output pairs, and how we're folding it into Lucene.Progress! The patch on LUCENE-2792 is now...
View ArticleSam Ruby: node-iniparser
Next up, I looked at node-iniparser, with some test data I happened to have readily available. In order to get it to work, I had to make some changes for Python ConfigParser compatibility: Param can...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: The best steam engine on the planet
I find this technique baffling. Why would you want to go to all this trouble and complexity when you could just propagate true virtual machines? It all seems so last century, one of those incredible...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: This afternoon's score is: Proxoid 0, PDANet 1
We were trying to figure out how to tether our old faithful backup notebook computer (an ancient Compaq Presario) to the net using our current smartphone, an LG Ally.After a bit of hunting and pecking...
View ArticleGlen Mazza: Web Services Links (9 January 2011)
Web service related links of interest this week: JAX-WS and JAX-RS United in CXF - Sergey Beryozkin's Blog (Jan 2011) [WSS4J 1.6] Action/Processor loading change - Colm O hEigeartaigh's Blog (Jan 2011)...
View ArticleClaus Ibsen: Looking at example from alternative integration framework
As part of my interrest with integration and Apache Camel, and yes my employment, I keep an eye on Camel alternatives, once in a while. Recently my twitter search revealed this tweet. Which takes you...
View ArticleUgo Cei: New Review of “Alfresco 3 Web Services”
The doQuent blog just published a new review of our book, “Alfresco 3 Web Services”. I will just quote the conclusions, but you might want to read the rest yourself: Overall, I found the book to be a...
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