James Duncan: Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge Winner Announced
As reported on the TED Blog, this week the X Foundation announced a winner and runner-up to their oil spill cleanup challenge. I hope these new innovations help change the state of the art in oil clean...
View ArticleSimone Tripodi: Apache Maven site: spread the new skin!
We are living the HTML5 era and a lot of pages on internet still are plain old HTML, not even valid XHTML... that is really a shame, especially when who produces such pages are automatic...
View ArticleRobert Burrell Donkin: Google: A Smarter Calendar
I often find myself copying event details from a mail or a website into my Google calendar. Dear internet, how can I automate this?
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Carlos Sanchez: Apache Barcamp Spain 2011: a summary
Last Saturday the Apache Barcamp Spain took place in Seville. It was the first Apache Software Foundation event in Spain, ever. The idea started almost a year ago, chatting over at the ApacheCON with...
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Edward J. Yoon: Google Summer of Code 2011 T-shirt
Just received my Google Summer of Code 2011 T-shirt gift from Google today, as I was a mentor for GSoC @ Apache this year. After all, Hama project have found a friend in Thomas.
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Christian Grobmeier: From Eclipse to IntelliJ IDEA 11
I have once tried IntelliJ IDEA and was slammed down by this IDE. I took only a few hours to explore it and then did go back to Eclipse. Then, a few months later, Yann Cebron came up with an...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: Tapestry 5.3 Maven Archetype
After struggling most of yesterday day, I finally have the Maven archetype working. Use the command: mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://tapestry.apache.org/ This points Maven at the...
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James Duncan: Dennis M. Ritchie 1941-2011
The computers I first used as a kid were the Apple][, a Commodore PET, a TRS-80, a Commodore 64, and a string of MS-DOS machines. Of course my first programming language was BASIC. My second was...
View ArticleJasha Joachimsthal: GOTO Amsterdam 2011 Conference - day 1
The GOTO Conference came to Amsterdam and its wide variety of subjects (Java, Javascript, HTML5, Agile, even .Net) made me decide to spend a part of my training/conference budget I get from Hippo. The...
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Eran Chinthaka: Deploying Cassandra Across Multiple Data Centers with...
Cassandra provides a highly scalable key/value storage that can be used for many applications. When Cassandra is to be used in production one might consider deploying it across multiple data centers...
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James Duncan: Getting Ready for the Big Print Job
Now that I’m back from a quick trip to photograph the Android Open conference, I’m getting everything ready to do the big print run of the iPhone at Macworld 2007 photo. That means tabulating...
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Steve Loughran: Microsoft and Hadoop: interesting
I am probably expected to say negative things about the recent announcement of Microsoft supporting Apache Hadoop(tm) on their Azure Cloud Platform, but I won't. I am impressed and think that it is a...
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Norman Maurer: Apache James Server SMTP is fast.....Thank you Netty
The last days I spend some time to benchmark the speed of the current SMTP implementation of Apache James Server. The implementation is written on top of netty and so make heavy use of NIO.I was...
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Steve Loughran: Hadoop work in the new API in Groovy.
I've been doing some actual Map/Reduce work with the new API, to see how it's changed. One issue: not enough documentation. Here then is some more, and different in a very special way: the code is in...
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Norman Maurer: Apache James Server SMTP is fast.....Thank you Netty
The last days I spend some time to benchmark the speed of the current SMTP implementation of Apache James Server. The implementation is written on top of netty and so make heavy use of NIO.I was...
View ArticleJasha Joachimsthal: GOTO Amsterdam - day 2
The day started slowly, probably because most of the attendees went to The Tara last evening. I didn't and wrote a blogpost , sorry for being nerdy ;) The keynote was a demonstration of Lively Kernel...
View ArticleChristian Grobmeier: Site Deploy with Maven 3
When Simone Tripodi initiated the new Maven Skin Fluido, which is build on top of my favorite lib Bootstrap, I knew it is time to create an own site for JJSON. But when running site-deploy, Maven 3...
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Hiranya Jayathilaka: WSO2: The Mission, Vision and the Future
That was without a doubt a perfect week. I'm of course talking about the WSO2Con 2011 which was held last month at Colombo, Sri Lanka. We are still trying to cope up with the continuous flow of...
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Bryan Pendleton: The bubble is back!
I think that this article is mostly rot and rubbish, but it's getting a bit of attention on the Netz right now, particularly because ofI recently had a sit-down chat with Ping Li, a venture capitalist...
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Grant Ingersoll: Mahout in Action Review
I’ve posted my review of “Mahout in Action” on Lucid’s website: Mahout in Action Review.
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