Sylvain Wallez: How often do you redeploy your J2EE application?
The guys at ZeroTurnaround have published an interesting report on the development habits from over 1300 Java developers. One of the questions that really struck me was "how often do you redeploy?" My...
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Ruwan Linton: Apache Synapse 2.0.0, start of the new life of Synapse
After more than 2 years, Apache Synapse community was able to pull out the 2.0.0 version of the Apache Synapse distribution. It has a lot of improvements to the synapse core and many new features,...
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Dave Johnson: Roller 5 and Glassfish 3
In my quest to make Roller work on Java EE 6, the first server that I decided to tackle was Glassfish 3. In this blog I'll describe how I approached the problem and what I learned along the way. Tested...
View ArticleDavid Reid: Complacency
Isn’t it amazing how short our collective memories are? The weather problems that have hit the UK for the last 6 weeks are being talked about in terms of the “worst in living memory” by many media...
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Trustin Lee: 스스로를 들여다 보는 것
스스로를 현실적으로 바라보고 평가하는 것은 대단히 어려운 일이다. 아니, 근본적으로는 불가능하다고 하는 것이 옳을 것 같다. 그뿐만 아니라, 그 속에서 드러나는 자신의 나약함과 대면하고 그것을 인정하는 것은 열린 마음을 갖겠다고 다짐한들 그 과정에서 맞딱뜨리는 기계적 반응에 가까운 두려움을 어찌할 수는 없다. 그럼에도 끊임없이 자기 자신의 내면을 들여다 보는...
View ArticleCommunity Over Code: Why trademarks are important in open source
Groklaw recently wrote about the upcoming OpenSUSE project creation, and just now Hudson project volunteers are renaming to be Jenkins. These are both excellent examples of why trademarks are important...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-01-11
Hudson’s future : renaming to “Jenkins” due to Oracle asshattery (tags: oracle hudson exodus stupid ci via:jamesc)
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Warren Togami: DNSWL - Please List your Mail Server
If you operate a legitimate mail server, please file a request to have your IP address listed at DNSWL.org. If your buddy's MTA IP address is not listed, suggest that they get themselves listed....
View ArticleShane Curcuru: Overly intelligent spam
I just moderated through a comment on my other blog (about trademarks in open source) that, while simple, was relevant to a previous post. Then I followed the link to the poster’s site, and noticed it...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Chrome -= H.264
Mike Jazayeri: Though H.264 plays an important role in video, as our goal is to enable open innovation, support for the codec will be removed and our resources directed towards completely open codec...
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Nick Kew: Don’t they want my business?
How hard can it be to buy a train ticket? I’ve been trying to buy in advance, to take advantage of cheaper advance fares. First attempt: go to nationalrail.co.uk, enter details of my journey, select my...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Book 2: The Boy Who Dared
Book 2, 2011 - The Boy Who Dared, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.Written from the perspective of a young man during Hitler's regime, this paints a picture of the Nazi years that I hadn't thought of...
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Carlos Sanchez: Speaking at Javagruppen, the Danish JUG annual conference
The guys at Javagruppen, the Danish JUG, are doing their annual conference on February 11th and 12th. The theme for this year is “Java, a cloudy affair”, and I’ll be speaking on building and testing in...
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Bryan Pendleton: Paying for things with your phone
Mobile payment systems and mobile banking is definitely not my area of expertise, but my eye was caught recently by this quite interesting story on Peter-Paul Koch's QuirksBlog.That lead me to a 2009...
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Yoav Shapira: Happy new year!
So it's the first post of 2011. Took me a while, but I'm still alive. Just more active on Twitter than here. Still, happy new year, everyone! I hope you all have a happy and healthy 2011.
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Yoav Shapira: A hilarious (or enraging) Quora question
The other day I saw this question on Quora: "What makes Facebook so incredibly good at design?" What amuses me is not the question itself, it's the majority of the answers that say Facebook sucks at...
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Danny Angus: Note to self, how to delete files older than
Yes, yet another one that I always have to look up, I think it must be my age!find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;
View ArticleArjé Cahn: Is JCR Dead? So What If It Is?
Josette Rigsbe wrote an article on CMSWire asking the question "Is JCR Dead?". I wanted to quickly respond with my answer, which in itself is a question: "so, what if it is?" JCR is an engineering...
View ArticleSam Ruby: xml5.js
I’ve posted a rough beginnings of an implementation of xml5 for node.js. The core of this work is the tokenizer, for which I wrote a simple script to do the conversion of Anne van Kesteren’s...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-01-13
A new quiz puzzle game: Movie Triangles : cool web-based, wikipedia-driven game from Jim Blackler; test your movie knowledge (tags: games puzzles quiz movies wikipedia)
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