Dennis Byrne: Why are engineers so hard on each other?
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View ArticleSam Ruby: Microformats and RDFa deployment
Peter Mika: The chart below shows the deployment of certain microformats and RDFa markup on the Web, as percentage of all web pages, based on an analysis of 12 billion web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search.
View ArticleJ Aaron Farr: AppleCare
As a Mac user, AppleCare is one of your best investments. Every Mac I’ve encountered needs AppleCare sooner or later. Recently Apollo, my MacBook Pro, began to kernel panic via a sudden black screen,...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: How has Linux printing improved since 2008?
I've recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 natively on my work iMac, as OS X was getting in the way of fast build times for a bunch of linux-based software. As part of being back in a linux environment, I...
View ArticleMatthias Wessendorf: How-to add the Maven version number to the MANIFEST.MF...
For the Apache MyFaces Trinidad project I wanted to include the Maven version number, into the MANIFEST.MF The solution itself is pretty straightforward. You can use an existing plugin, to get the...
View ArticleDanny Angus: note to self, MySQL query profiler
this article is a great way to get started using the mysql query profiler.If you've never used it before take some time to check it out, it will change the way you think about the database forever.
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: Thomas Houston's "Best Of" list for 2010
I recently ran across Thomas Houston's article: The Best Tech Writing of 2010, and was pleasantly impressed.Although I had already read a number of the articles he references, several of them were...
View ArticleTony Stevenson: and the features keep on coming…
Today, the ASF infra team enabled the latest feature available to all committers, users can now modify their SpamAssassin threshold score. This will let users set their own preferred SA level, which...
View ArticleCarlos Sanchez: GPG, Maven and OS X
GPG on the Mac has been quite an issue always. Several choices to install and hard to configure. Now seems that GPG native tools for OS X are back to life at the GPGTools project, providing a single...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Free support pays off
I do quite a bit of free tech support for the Apache HTTP Server project. This happens primarily on the #httpd channel on irc.freenode.net. Every now and then, the free pays off and someone sends me...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: Here's a football gambling idea you can support
If you still haven't decided whether to back Title Town or the Iron Curtain, perhaps this nice idea will help you make up your mind: We have a Super Bowl bet!
View ArticleGianugo Rabellino: Three months in the whirlwind
Well, hello world! It’s been quite a while since my last post, and every single day since then has been a crazy, exciting and furious whirlwind. Since October 18th, my life has al been about relocating...
View ArticleGianugo Rabellino: Off to Europe: coming to a city near you, and looking for...
As mentioned in my previous post, I am off to Europe this coming Saturday, visiting four countries in six days (yikes!). More specifically I will be: In Milano, Italy, Sunday 30th, Monday 31st and...
View ArticleIgor Galić: Answering trivial and interesting questions with OpenSSL
In $bigCo my team recently introduced a bi-weekly “Knowledge Transfer” meeting, in which you tell others about your own work – or other mildly interesting things you know, which they should know too....
View ArticleChristian Grobmeier: Nested divs with 100% height
After long search I finally found a solution for a web problem which haunted me for a while. It was the fact that divs will not increase their size with the content which is stored in a nested div...
View ArticleJames Strachan: Wanna try our Apache Camel developer tools for Enterprise...
When I first created Apache Camel one of my design goals was to let folks describe the Enterprise Integration Patterns as easily as possible using concise and declarative domain specific languages...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Slides of yesterday’s Apache Hadoop Get Together
This time with little less than 24 hours delay - the usual, by some impatiently expected, summary of the Apache Hadoop Get Together. The meetup took place at Zanox’ event campus. The room was well...
View ArticleMatt Raible: Alta
Had my first Alta experience this week. It was awesome. Will post pictures from Crested Butte on Monday.
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Meego review
I'm off to FOSDEM next weekend, so I've got my aged EeePC 901 out of the cupboard. It's the only laptop I have that can stand up to really long days without a power socket. I'm trying out a selection...
View ArticleNick Kew: Barriers to free trade
I have a 19″ monitor that’s surplus to requirement. It’s a great big CRT, and was last used four years ago. But it was a top-end monitor in its time, and might still be of interest to a CRT fan. I’ve...
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