Justin Mason: Links for 2011-02-07
No Sleep ‘Til Brooklands: A True Story Of Daily Mail Lies (guest post) : how the Daily Mail (UK) works, via b3ta. mind-boggling misuse of one woman’s comments to concoct a story, according to this...
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Bryan Pendleton: Just how hot is the Google I/O conference?
Is it actually true that this year's Google I/O conference sold out in only 59 minutes?!! That is astonishing.Recently this has been a very interesting conference, with lots of information about the...
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Apache Wicket Community News: Fosdem Wicket presentation
Last sunday I gave a 10am presentation at FOSDEM in Brussels. I hope I kept everyone awake. I promised to upload the slides so here they are. The presentation gives a short introduction to Apache...
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Nick Kew: Back Home
Back from FOSDEM, much to blog about in due course. Also of course things to catch up on, not least sleep. So, first things first, having now stayed three consecutive years at the Renaissance Hotel, I...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Book 5: Macbeth
Yes, that's right, I've never read Macbeth before. Now I have.And later this week, we'll probably watch Patrick Stewart's Macbeth. Reading plays is always difficult for me. I have trouble following...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Nokia Friday
On Friday Nokia is going to have a big day, and is rumoured to be announcing all manner of strange things. We've heard tales of Nokia chopping senior staff, analysts recommending a switch to WP7,...
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Colm O hEigeartaigh: WSPasswordCallback changes in WSS4J 1.6
Following the previous post on Username Token processing changes in WSS4J 1.6, this post gives some additional details on related changes that have been made to the WSPasswordCallback class in...
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Bryan Pendleton: Ken Olsen has died
Ken Olsen, the former head of Digital Equipment Corporation, died last weekend at the age of 84; here's his obituary in the Boston Globe.I was a heavy user of DEC systems for many years. I worked on a...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-02-08
Fine Gael’s Facebook spam campaign : jesus. Not only do they coin the cramp-inducing neologism “twolicy”, they then have the temerity to suggest that people should “donate” their Facebook status so...
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Matthias Wessendorf: Leaving Oracle
After almost five years I am leaving Oracle at the end of February. In 2006 I joined the company to work on JavaServer Faces related projects like Apache MyFaces/Trinidad or ADF Faces. I had a great...
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Andrew Savory: Bond Homme Fatale
Via Kottke: In CASINO ROYALE, James Bond is the Bond girl. Heh. Been done. In The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross, in fact. Though arguably Casino Royale predates Jennifer Morgue, given the book...
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Bryan Pendleton: FUSE, CUSE, and UIO
Recently I've been spending a little bit of time learning about FUSE, CUSE, and UIO, which are related technologies for user space device driver implementations in Linux.What ties these various...
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David Crossley: Apache Forrest 0.9 released
We finally released Apache Forrest 0.9 In the almost four years since the last release, the Apache Forrest project has been ticking along with many bug fixes and consolidation. Various Apache projects...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Breaking the Web with hash-bangs
Mike Davies: So the #! URL syntax was especially geared for sites that got the fundamental web development best practices horribly wrong, and gave them a lifeline to getting their content seen by...
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Jeroen Reijn: Working with Android Layouts and ListViews
I've been the owner of an Android phone for about 5 months now. The thought of creating an application for the Android platform has appealed to me ever since. That's why I recently started with Android...
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Matthias Wessendorf: Getting started with Objective C
In order to do i{Phone|Pod|Pad} or Mac development you need to learn Objective-C, which is basically adding some object-orientation to the C language. The last 2.5 days I spent some time in learning...
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Matt Raible: Labor Day Weekend in Grand County
Labor Day is a great time of year in Colorado. It marks a transition from summer to fall, and it's often the last weekend to get good deals on ski passes. This year, we did it up right and spent the...
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Gary Gregory: Java multi-threaded unit testing
With Java 5 and JUnit 4, writing multi-threaded unit tests has never been easier. Let’s take a brain dead ID generator as our domain object example: /** * Generates sequential unique IDs starting with...
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Bryan Pendleton: I love a mystery...
... but I am puzzled and confused about what happened down in Southern California yesterday.As near as I can make out, this is what we think occurred:A utility worker near Yuma, AZ was replacing a...
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James Strachan: Scalate 1.5.2 Released
The Scalate team is pleased to announce the availability of Scalate 1.5.2 Scalate is a Scala 2.9.1 based template engine which can be used stand alone, with servlets or web frameworks like JAXRS, Lift...
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