Rich Bowen: Book 25: Men At Arms
We recently finished reading Men At Arms, which is the 15th Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett. The books in this series vary in quality, and this is one of the best yet. The characters in this book...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Liberwriter
A while back, as I mentioned, I got a Kindle. I now read almost everything on my Kindle, and get frustrated when a book isn't available in that format.Meanwhile, my long-time colleague David Welton...
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Bryan Pendleton: Digi Notice all those updates?
You may or may not have noticed, but over the last 96 hours your computer has probably been going completely nuts with automatic updating. Windows Update, Microsoft Update, Firefox Update, Mac OS X...
View ArticleChris Pepper: Upright Piano Brigade 4x2: Marc Peloquin & David Del...
Marc Peloquin played at Barbes, with David Del Tredici -- half pieces by David, and much of it four hands. Dennis Tobenski was also present. 72 photos Marc & David: Dolly Suite, Op. 56, Gabriel...
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Bryan Pendleton: The challenge of online anonymity
The Bitcoin system has been the center of much interest of late, for a variety of reasons. One interesting aspect of the Bitcoin system is that it attempts to provide secure, private, anonymous online...
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Claus Ibsen: Apache Camel 2.8.1 Released
Today the Apache Camel team announce the release of Apache Camel 2.8.1. This release is mainly a bugfix release over 2.8.0, resolving 45 tickets. There is one new improvements, which is the camel-soap...
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Claus Ibsen: CamelOne 2011 Flashback
I have had this blog article on my ever growing todo list. Now I am sitting in the airport waiting for a plane bound to Oslo, for the JavaZone conference. I guess airports manifest itself as good...
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Claus Ibsen: JavaZone 2011 Conference
I am sitting in my hotel room in Oslo, Norway, and thought I ought to write this blog entry while the memories of the JavaZone conference is still fresh in my mind. JavaZone is possible one of the...
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Claus Ibsen: JavaZone 2011 - Cool Badge
In my previous blog covering my impressions from the recent JavaZone conference I forgot to tell you about the cool badges used. JavaZone Speaker Badge - A 3.5 inch floppy disk Its a 3.5 inch floppy...
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Andrew Savory: Windows 8 on an ExoPC Slate
The Windows 8 Developer Preview is out, with the new (straight from Windows Phone 7) Metro touch UI. On Wednesday, I asked if it would run on an ExoPC: You'll recall that Intel gave out ExoPC slate...
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Hadrian Zbarcea: Congrats Master Melegrito!
Personal things don't usually belong here, but this is a bit special. I am also still sore after this weekend.Once a year, me and Ama have the opportunity to go with our instructor, 4th Dan Tae Kwon Do...
View ArticleChris Hostetter: Stump The Chump? Win A Prize!
One month from today we’ll be kicking off Apache Lucene Eurocon in Barcelona, and I will once again be in the hot seat for a session of Stump The Chump. During the session, moderator and former...
View ArticleJames Duncan: What Chase Jarvis Learned From an Experiment in Creative Living
Chase deep dives on his thoughts and takes us behind the scenes of his Dasin: An Invitation to Hang project in New York earlier this year. His story is a celebration of the snapshot. Linked by James...
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Olivier Lamy: Maven Download time Improvement
While working a bit on wagon (the api used in Apache Maven to download/upload artifacts), I wanted to reduce the http(s) connection creation number (see WAGON-348).The current embedded http wagon in...
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Andrew Savory: Brand crazy
We're in an ever-increasingly brand-led society, where consumers are more market-savvy than ever before, whilst being bombarded on all sides by sophisticated marketing messages. On the high street as a...
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Ian Boston: Sparsemap Content WebDav
I have always felt that a good test of a content system is to give it to a badly behaved client. WebDav clients tend to be badly behaved and often make unreasonable requests of a http server that was...
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Stefan Bodewig: Working on Apache log4net 1.2.11
About a month ago I've been elected as a committer to Apache log4net. Right now we are steadily working on getting a new release out - the first one in more than five years and even the first...
View ArticleStefan Bodewig: Apache Ant 1.8.1
Last weekend Antoine announced Ant 1.8.1. This is more or less a pure bugfix release which addresses a few important issues. The fix with the biggest impact likely is that <extension-point> and...
View ArticleStefan Bodewig: How to detect Ant 1.8.0 (or later)
So Apache Ant 1.8.0 is out and I'm supposed to follow a tradition I started with Ant 1.6.2. If you can be sure that you are at least using Ant 1.7.0 then the built-in <antversion> task/condition...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: Changes to Cascade, and a cautionary tale about defrecord
Since I've been talking more about Clojure lately, I've spent a little more time working on Cascade. I've been stripping out a lot of functionality, so that Cascade will no work with Ring and...
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