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Olivier Lamy: Tomcat Maven Plugin now supports tomcat7
Hello,After moving the Tomcat Maven Plugin from Codehaus to Apache in the Tomcat land (see previous post), I have found some time to start hacking on it.The first feature I wanted to add was support of...
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Matt Raible: Increasing My Developer Happiness
I've bought into the idea that a happy developer requires a clean, attractive, comfortable workplace that encourages healthy, sustainable productivity. Rich Armstrong of Fog Creek Software explains how...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Book 26 - Atonement
This one has been on my list for quite some time - Atonement, by Ian Mcewan.I loved it, although it took some perseverance to get to that point. The first third of the book reads like Jane Austen...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Successful
I have, over the last 15 years, been involved, to one degree or another, with several successful Open Source projects you've heard of - Perl, PHP, Apache HTTP Server. I've also been involved in several...
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Andrew Savory: At what price to community?
Dave has written a detailed post on the types of community that Tizen hopes to target. It's great, and I recommend you read it through. For more background, you should also read my blog post on what's...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-10-09
the etymology of the anatomical term “Thagomizer” : ‘The term was coined by Gary Larson in a 1982 Far Side comic strip, in which a group of cavemen in a faux-modern lecture hall are taught by their...
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Phil Steitz: See you at ApacheCon!
I am speaking again this year, this time in the Innovation and Emerging Technologies track, giving an introduction to Commons nabla. Nabla aims to automatically generate mathematical derivatives from...
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Colm O hEigeartaigh: Using Kerberos with Web Services - part I
This is the first of a two-part series on using Kerberos with Web Services, with Apache WSS4J and CXF. WSS4J 1.6.2 adds support for obtaining a Kerberos ticket from a KDC (Key Distribution Center) and...
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Ioannis Canellos: My JavaOne talk about Cellar
PrologueI am currently returning home from JavaOne 2011. I am at the airport of Munich waiting for my connecting flight to Athens. Once again the flight my flight is delayed and its a great chance to...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Building Dart
Trying to follow the PreparingYourMachine instructions. First impression: # source install-build-deps.sh Only Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) through 11.04 (natty) are currently supported ... I was trying using...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Using Email Folders is Less Productive
”Finding emails by searches took on average 17 seconds, versus 58 seconds finding the emails by folder. The likelihood of success—that is, finding the intended email—was no greater when it had been...
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Davanum Srinivas: WAS 7.0 Eclipse plugin (IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0)
You can install a Eclipse plugin that works with IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0 from the Eclipse Marketplace. Yes, In addition to supporting WebSphere Application Server v8.5 Alpha Liberty...
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Steve Loughran: Oracle and Hadoop part 2: Hardware -overkill?
I've been looking at what Oracle say you should run Hadoop on and thinking "why?"I don't have the full specs, since all I've seen is slideware on the register implying this is premium hardware, not...
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Steve Loughran: Oracle and Hadoop part 1
I suppose I should add a disclaimer that I am obviously biased against anything Oracle does, but I will start by praising them for:Recognising that the Hadoop platform is both a threat and an...
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Norman Maurer: NIO and InetAddress.getHostName() == bad idea
Today I was burned another time by NIO and InetAddress.getHostName();.Just remember that any DNS-Lookup can take a very long time on a heavy loaded app. So don't try todo this fom within a...
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Norman Maurer: Thread-Local and why you should know what you do with it...
Recently I came across some problem with one of our applications. It was using some old code under the hood which was called while processing network traffic (IMAP).For the network processing stuff we...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: GoTo Con
Location: Amsterdam Link out: Click hereStart Date: 2011-10-12 End Date: 2011-10-14 This week late Tuesday night I am going to leave for GoTo con in Amsterdam. Train tickets are already booked - this...
View ArticleRich Bowen: A new opportunity to learn
Two years ago I had the opportunity to become a part of OmniTI, where I have learned more than I imagined possible. I learned about how serious software engineering is done. I learned about...
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James Duncan: Occupy San Francisco
Protesters in the rain on Market Street in San Francisco. Posted by James Duncan Davidson.
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Jeroen Reijn: Replacing the MacBookPro mid 2009 HDD part 2
As you might have read in my previous upgrade post I initially wanted to upgrade my MacBookPro5,4 mid 2009 model with an SSD. Since my initial search for a compatible SSD I've read tons of articles on...
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