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Hiranya Jayathilaka: SOA & Security: Keeping the Evil Away
SOA is about opening up. Instead of writing tightly coupled code, you implement your business logic and data access logic as reusable services which can be accessed over a network. Applications,...
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Nick Kew: “9/11″
I’m sure I can’t be the only one to be heartily fed up with the sheer volume of media coverage of late! After all the crap we’ve been subjected to, it’ll be practically an anticlimax if nothing happens...
View ArticleApache Jakarta news: BSF moves to Apache Commons
The Jakarta BSF project has moved over to Apache Commons (http://commons.apache.org/bsf/)
View ArticleRich Bowen: Ohio Linux Fest 2011
This weekend I've been attending the Ohio LinuxFest in Columbus. I haven't been for several years, so it was nice to get up here and see some familiar faces, as well as attend a great conference.On...
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Sagara Gunathunga: Apache Community building event within WSO2Con 2011
We are planning to have a free Apache Community building event within the WSO2Con conference next week (13th September to 15th September) in Colombo, Sri Lanka. We would like to invite contributors...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): The BIG Apple?
We're probably safe until the iVerse product is floated; until then, the unIverse still exists. First we had to euthanise our 21-year-old 'kitten,' who had developed an aggressive bone cancer in her...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-09-11
The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit) : contains a surprisingly-large number which I haven’t read (tags: scifi fiction books science-fiction)
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Matthias Wessendorf: Disabling the ARC in Xcode 4.2
With Xcode 4.2 (iOS 5) Apple introduce ARC (Automatic Reference Counting) to help with memory management. Basically you no longer need to call retain or release. However current examples/books (and...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: TransferSummit 2011
I think Transfer Summit is fast becoming my favourite conference. It's like a happy mashup of IWMWs of yore (and even had Brian Kelly attending this year - it was great to catch up with him!) and...
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Colm O hEigeartaigh: SAML SecurityPolicy enforcement in CXF 2.4.2
Apache CXF 2.4.2 was released recently. In this blog post I want to delve into how CXF 2.4.2 enforces WS-SecurityPolicy expressions relating to SAML Assertions on the inbound side.There are two policy...
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Ben Laurie: DNSSEC on the Google Certificate Catalog
I mentioned my work on the Google Certificate Catalog a while back. Now I’ve updated it to sign responses with DNSSEC. I also updated the command-line utility to verify DNSSEC responses – and added a...
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Hiranya Jayathilaka: SOA & Business: Thoughts from a Pro
Most developers and architects today understand the fundamentals of SOA. SOA concepts and related technologies such as WS-* have been around for several years now and they are not exactly the new kids...
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Grant Ingersoll: Lucid Imagination » Flexible ranking in Lucene 4
For those who have wanted other scoring models in Lucene/Solr (Okapi, others) more details can be found on Lucid’s blog: Lucid Imagination » Flexible ranking in Lucene 4.
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-09-12
Conor O’Neill on his freesat/DTT system : ‘Our replacement for Sky TV cost €99. Ariva 120. No monthly fees!’ — sounds very intriguing, that’s a good price point (tags: digital fta satellite television...
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Nick Kew: Bootstrapping development on mac
I don’t have any strong memory of bootstrapping gcc on the old mac laptop. It’s something I just did, and I think it was by installing fink. That’s not working on the new laptop: I’m getting an error...
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Ruwan Linton: Past, Present and now the Future ESB
I've seen the Past of the ESBs, contributed to develop the Present, and now will be a part of the ESB of the Future! I'm thrilled to announce today that I have joined AdroitLogic as its Director of...
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Asankha Perera: Former WSO2 ESB and Apache Synapse ESB Architect Ruwan Linton...
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Ruwan Linton has joined AdroitLogic!Ruwan was the former architect and product manager of the WSO2 ESB, taking over the position when I left WSO2 in October...
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Bryan Pendleton: Type safety defense in depth
One of the more interesting quotes from Preliminary Design of the SAFE Platform is the following, regarding the new programming language Breeze that they are working on:The Breeze language used in SAFE...
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Davanum Srinivas: Compile/Install msn-pecan on ubuntu
msn-pecan is an alternative to the MSN plugin in pidgin. But the versions in the ubuntu repos are old. Here’s a quick 5 steps to compile/install msn-pecan on ubuntu. sudo apt-get install libpurple-dev...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-09-13
Black Hat: Insulin pumps can be hacked : “Everything has an embedded processor and computer in it,” he said. “Every time you hide behind [security by] obscurity, it is going to fail.” Brad Smith, a...
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