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Ben Laurie: Open Source Transcription Software Developer
Since we set up FreeBMD, FreeREG and FreeCEN things have come a long way, and so we’re revisiting how we do transcription. Those great guys at Zooniverse have released their Scribe transcription...
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Bryan Pendleton: Academic publishing issues in Computer Science
As the new school year gets underway, a few snapshots from the current state of affairs with respect to scholarly research and academic publishing in the Computer Science field:At Princeton University,...
View ArticleSimone Tripodi: MyBatis still rocks!
One of my involvements I'm proud of in the OpenSource world, is my contribution to MyBatis - formerly known as Apache iBATIS - community.I happily joined them after they left the ASF, been invited by...
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Sergey Beryozkin: Describing JSON Services in WADL
WADL can describe RESTful XML services really well, by having request and response representations linked to corresponding XML or Relax NG schema element declarations.However, you've most likely seen...
View ArticleJames Duncan: SEO for Non-Dicks
Matt Gemmell repeats the real secret to making sure your site scores high in the search engines: create original, relevant content repeatedly. Duh. Now if we could only outlaw all the scuzzy SEO...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Whither Flickr?
Having hit one too many cases where Flickr breaks embedded photos when they are updated, Chuq von Rospach is thinking about what to do next. Everyone seems to be talking about moving on from Flickr...
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James Duncan: Pilot Peak
The restaurant in my hotel in West Yellowstone has a painting of a distinctive mountain that nobody in our party recognized. We wondered where it was as we had become fairly familiar with the features...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Austin Kleon on Combinational Creativity
In an excellent talk at the Human Potential Summit, Austin Kleon makes a great case for combinational creativity. Remember, kids: Everything is a Remix. It’s the way our species got to where we are....
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-10-02
Amazon hiring embedded OS developers : hey, I know a few of those! ‘I need more help on a project I’m driving at Amazon where we continue to make big changes in our datacenter network to improve...
View ArticleJames Duncan: I’m Not Against Creative Commons
If you subscribe the the print edition of the British Journal of Photography, you might see my picture in the October 2011 issue alongside an article credited to me and a caption that gives my position...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Tim Bray’s Nudge about Wikipedia and Photography
In a blog post yesterday, Tim Bray talks about how he licensed a photograph he made of the interior of Sagrada Família for a book cover. The gist of the story is that he contributed a small version of...
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James Duncan: The Beartooth Highway
The Beartooth Highway east of Yellowstone National Park Based on the recommendations of more than a few people, I drove the Beartooth Highway on my way out of Yellowstone National Park last week....
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Nick Kew: What am I drinking?
Yesterday evening our water supply failed. Turn the tap on and nothing comes out. Ouch, where’s my cuppa? I recollect that a little while back the flow had seemed inexplicably weak when I’d used...
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Olivier Lamy: New default http(s) transport layer in maven core 3.x
In the current maven core dev trunk, we have recently replace the http(s) transport layer from lightweight wagon (based on default jdk http(s) mechanism) to the wagon http module based on Apache...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Best out of office response EVER
Just received this in response to email:I am currently being held captive against my will in a small suburb. I am being tortured with sleep deprivation and chemical contamination from brown, foul...
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Jukka Zitting: Apache Jackrabbit 2.3 is out
Today we announced the release of Apache Jackrabbit 2.3.0. It’s the result of over nine months of development since the Jackrabbit 2.2 release, and contains changes related to over a hundred new...
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Bryan Pendleton: The Architecture of Open Source Applications
Over the summer, I read The Architecture of Open Source Applications, a rather unusual book.The term "architecture", when it comes to software engineering, is a somewhat soft and fuzzy concept; the...
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Asankha Perera: ESB performance testing - Round 5 Results for 8 Open Source ESBs
AdroitLogic Private Ltd. announced today the results of the fifth round of ESB Performance testing. This round compares the WSO2 ESB, Mule ESB CE, Fuse ESB, Apache ServiceMix, Talend ESB, Petals ESB,...
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Ruwan Linton: Formula 1 of ESB - Round 5, with 8 open source products
Formula 1 has been the race all the racers are waiting for and it has become the worlds most attracted race.F1 racer on the raceESB performance has been equally discussed, interesting topic in the IT...
View ArticleChristian Schneider: New Camel Webinar Series in german language
Blog post added by Christian Schneider Bernhard Schuhmann and I will be holding a new free Camel Webinar series in german starting in about a week at Oct 12th. More information and signup at...
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