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Matt Raible: Crested Butte
Last week was a great one for my ski season and happiness meter. First of all, I had the pleasure of skiing Alta for the first time while traveling to Overstock.com. I started working early on an...
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Gary Gregory: What are Java’s min and max values?
Why is this not Javadoc’d clearly? Integer.MAX_VALUE = 2147483647 Integer.MIN_VALUE = -2147483648 Long.MAX_VALUE = 9223372036854775807 Long.MIN_VALUE = -9223372036854775808
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Claus Ibsen: FuseSource launches beta for Fuse IDE for Apache Camel
Fuse IDE will eventually come in a number of different flavors, for different aspects of of integration (Web and Restful services, messaging as well as supporting remote configuration). Initially the...
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Matthias Wessendorf: Apache MyFaces in the cloud – Part II
A few days ago I did a quick test to see how well Apache MyFaces “works” in the cloud. The Amazon Beanstalk test was a success. Now, I gave the new Run@Cloud offerings from @CloudBees a try. Apache...
View ArticleFeatherCast: Episode 74: Gary Gregory and the Apache Commons
The Apache Commons is a collection of reusable components to extent the Java programming language. I spoke with Gary Gregory about what these projects offer. You can listen HERE, or on iTunes.
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Colm O hEigeartaigh: Support for SAML2 assertions in WSS4J 1.6
Support for SAML2 assertions has finally arrived in WSS4J, via the forthcoming 1.6 release. This has been a long-standing feature request (see here). WSS4J 1.5.x only supports SAML 1.1 assertions via...
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David N. Welton: Parallelized web site creating and selling -...
I often have ideas for little web sites, stuff I just get the urge to create for the fun of it. Some of them have done rather well, like langpop.com but even that doesn't make any money, and, sadly,...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-02-02
Michael “Liar’s Poker” Lewis on Ireland’s economic collapse : PDF of the 15-page Vanity Fair article — from interviews I’ve read in advance, this seems pretty good (tags: michael-lewis vanity-fair...
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Bryan Pendleton: The wheels of government grind slowly
Today I read that the SEC and the CFTC are moving closer to implementing one aspect of the new Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act:The Securities and Exchange Commission today...
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Andrew Savory: Ubuntu Netbook 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...
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Andrew Savory: Kindle Case Chaos
The Kindle is great, but one of the things you really want from an electronic book is rock-solid stability. Since getting the Kindle, I've noticed quite frequently upon opening it that it was back to...
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Olivier Lamy: Sonar Instance @ASF
A Sonar instance is now available at ASF http://sonar.apache.org/.Builds are provided by Jenkins : http://sonar.apache.org/jenkins/ (yes I couldn't resist to use it even before the first official...
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Grant Ingersoll: February 2011 TriHUG slides posted
I put my slides up from last night’s TriHUG talk on Apache Mahout on my slideshare account.
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Deepal Jayasinghe: yum install problem on Fedora
When you use Fedora older version you might get following error and spend hours and hours to solve the problem.problem:yum install libcurl-develSetting up Install ProcessSetting up repositoriesAnd here...
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Ian Boston: Choosing friends carefully
In http://ceki.blogspot.com/2010/05/forces-and-vulnerabilites-of-apache.html Ceki Gülcü points out the problems of a meritocracy that is worth reading. What he skips over is the causes of the situation...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Speck laptop cover
My biggest complaint with my MacBook Pro has always been the sharp front edge. When using it for extended periods of time without an external keyboard (which I do perhaps 2 or 3 days a week, working in...
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Yoav Shapira: Motivating software developers
As a developer myself, I have always been curious about how to motivate software developers, including myself ;) Is it the project? The technology? The team you're working with? The vision of the...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Java Commons Logging 2.0
I am a great fan of Java commons Logging It bonds to multiple back ends, Log4J and SmartFrog logging among them, SF Logging is unusual in that you can have per-instance loggers (with different outputs...
View ArticleSteve Loughran: VM disk management
I've been doing something today which makes me realise I've missed something obvious about managing disks for Linux VMs. It's this: by having separate virtual home disks from root disks, you can remap...
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Gary Gregory: Trunk vs. HEAD in Version Control Systems
This aim of this note is to provide the shortest and simplest explanation of the concepts of trunk and HEAD in a Version Control System like CVS and Subversion (SVN.) Like in botany, trunk is a tree’s...
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