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Arjé Cahn: Raving about Rave!!
So, if you didn’t know – here at Hippo we’re doing some incredibly cool stuff with the Apache Software Foundation. One of the new things that I’m excited about is Apache Rave, a project currently...
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Michael McCandless: Lucene's SearcherManager simplifies reopen with threads
Modern computers have wonderful hardware concurrency, within and across CPU cores, RAM and IO resources, which means your typical server-based search application should use multiple threads to fully...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Tiswas
Tizen. Word is finally out about the Intel-Samsung 'merger' of their Linux platforms. In a single step, a number of crippled initiatives are given new legs, and the mystery behind the stories of Intel...
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Bryan Pendleton: Can we really already be talking about a post-Android market?
As the gallows humor goes: "once I get one, they're obsolete". Still, it seems startling that Peter-Paul Koch, among others, is already talking openly about what happens "after Android". He's written a...
View ArticleStefan Bodewig: Apache Commons Compress Improvements
I spent large chunks of July and August working on Zip64 support for the ZIP package of Commons Compress and think it is in a state where we can have more people test it. It needs some interop tests...
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Bryan Pendleton: Silk Fire Kindling
Far and away the most insightful take on today's monumental set of announcements from Amazon comes from Chris Espinosa, who says: Amazon now has what every storefront lusts for: the knowledge of what...
View ArticleMatt Raible: Integrating HTML5 Boilerplate with Scalate and Play
HTML5 Boilerplate is a project that provides a number of basic files to help you build an HTML5 application. At its core, it's an HTML template that puts CSS at the top, JavaScript at the bottom,...
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Colm O hEigeartaigh: Talend donates Security Token Service (STS) to Apache CXF
I am pleased to announce that Talend has donated a Security Token Service (STS) implementation to Apache CXF, which will be part of the forthcoming 2.5 release. Since the 2.4.0 release, CXF ships with...
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David Valeri: How I learned to stop worrying and love OS X Lion for Java...
I’ve been humming along using OS X 10.6 for the better part of a year now. For the most part, the tool suite I identified in my earlier post has served me well. Having just released a major project...
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Ortwin Glück: [Code] The cut W slant of the Liberation Sans typeface
Look at that snippet of my Eclipse Menu bar. Especially the W of the Window menu. Looks familiar? It's cut off at its left side! It must be a bug in the font metrics of Liberation Sans. So lets work...
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Jonathan Anstey: Free open source talks this October
There are a few things happening in October that'd I'd like to draw your attention to. October 11thWe're cohosting a Fuse community day with Skills Matter in London, England. Rob, James, and Claus will...
View ArticleOrtwin Glück: [Code] flashplayer calls getrlimit() very often
Why does Adobe's Flash Player need to call getrlimit() hundreds of times per second, to query its stack limit? It's completely insane. That value is virtually constant anyway!
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Olivier Lamy: Apache Maven Wagon 2.0 released
Apache Maven Wagon 2.0 has been released with some nice fixes/features.See full changelogThe most important features are :* using http(s) connection pooling: see my previous post.* support of...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-09-29
feedback loop n-gram analyzer : ‘a simple parser of ARF compliant FBL complaints, which normalizes the email complaints and generates a 6-tuple n-gram version of the message. These n-grams are stored...
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Nick Kew: You know it’s hot when …
… the sheep on the edge of the moors are all clustered in the areas of shade. … the heating on the bus apparently can’t be turned off! This year’s Indian Summer is particularly striking, coming as it...
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Claus Ibsen: Upcoming Fuse Community Days in London and Paris
I am going to be speaking in London on October 11th and Paris on October 13th speaking at free Fuse events - if anyone would like to meet-up for a beer and chat then come meet us. I have the pleasure...
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Christian Grobmeier: The ASF and the Java Usergroup Augsburg
On 22.09.2011 I met up with the Java Usergroup Augsburg. Folks were interested in “how the Apache Software Foundation” works. Inspired by the excellent slides of Justin Erenkrantz, I made my own. In...
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Steve Loughran: A note on distributed computing diagnostics
I've just stuck in my first mildly interesting co-authored Hadoop patch for a while, HADOOP-7466: "Add a standard handler for socket connection problems which improves diagnostics"It tries to address...
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Rob Weir: ODF 1.2: Approved as an OASIS Standard
To quote the immortal words of Otis B. Driftwood, “Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor”. The day has finally arrived. Open...
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David Blevins: JavaOne 2011 schedule
JavaOne is next week and as usual I will be there. I'm a bit busier than usual this year, but as always I'm more than happy to get together with anyone. In fact it's my favorite part of JavaOne, so...
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