James Duncan: What will future generations condem us for?
Kwame Anthony Appiah speculates on what future generations might find as distasteful as we find slavery today. His guesses: Our prison system, industrial meat production, institutionalized and isolated...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Sprint clarifies iPhone 4S unlock policy
Jason Snell at Macworld reports that Sprint has clarified its unlock policy. Instead of shipping phones with the GSM bits unlocked, it intends to unlock them on request by customers with 60 days of...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Zack Arias on editing your portfolio
Editing down a portfolio is tough. Damn tough. It’s a process that every photographer should tackle, however. Zack Arias shows tells the story of how you do it in his own awesome way. Linked by James...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Camping with Bryan Jones on the Bonneville Salt Flats
A few weeks ago while passing through Salt Lake, I got to spend some time with my friend Bryan Jones. We escaped the city and went camping on the salt flats to enjoy the Milky Way and catch up. Linked...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Lodgepole pines on Yellowstone’s Dunhaven Pass
Mike Clark writes about spending time at Dunraven Pass in Yellowstone and his thoughts while photographing the lodgepole pines. Be sure to check out his elk photo as well from the same trip. Linked by...
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Hiranya Jayathilaka: WSO2 ESB Documentation Revamped
No software application is complete without documentation. According to Ian Sommerville (author of the well known textbook on Software Engineering), software is not just the computer programs, but also...
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James Duncan: NYPD Interfering with Photography
It appears that the NYPD—or at least some of their officers—are using strobing flashlights to purposefully interfere with cameras recording them during Occupy Wall Street protests. Here are two...
View ArticleChristian Grobmeier: Looking at Dart
Google has started to replace JavaScript with something better. It’s name is Dart. Now Dart has been made public and many people do not agree with Google that Dart will ever succeed. They say, Dart...
View ArticleJean-Baptiste Onofré: What’s new in Karaf 2.2.4 ?
Apache Karaf 2.2.4 has been released this week end. You can take a look on the release notes. More than a bug fixes release, this version includes several new features and enhancements. Command aliases...
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Edward J. Yoon: Open-source M&A
There are two types of M&A from a buyer's perspective: social status/influence (valuable users/employees/databases/experiences) and positive business model. Typically, knowledge-based industry's...
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Ruwan Linton: UltraESB Documenation
AdroitLogic has released the first phase of the official documentation for the UltraESB. This documentation is a complete reference of the UltraESB product and the associated tools. The product...
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Asankha Perera: Past, Present and Future of ...: UltraESB Documenation
AdroitLogic has released the first phase of the official documentation for the UltraESB. This documentation is a complete reference of the... Does your ESB vendor charge you for access to Premium...
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Nick Kew: Selling a soul
With the news in of Lord Sainsbury’s election as chancellor of my Alma Mater, the phrase Faustian Pact sprung to mind. But only fleetingly: Faust sold his soul not for gold but for (according to...
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Andrew Savory: TV Licensing
The TV Licensing staff are on strike due to a pay dispute. This seems as good a time as any to talk about the TV license and the notorious enforcement company, TV Licensing. I am a big fan of the BBC....
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Andrew Savory: TV Licensing
The TV Licensing staff are on strike due to a pay dispute. This seems as good a time as any to talk about the TV license and the notorious enforcement company, TV Licensing. I am a big fan of the BBC....
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Bryan Pendleton: Less than one month until The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim is released
Wired Magazine gives us some details about how it will look and play.
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Phil Steitz: Open source community economics
Much has been written about how to make money from open source and the impact of open source on commercial software markets. The economic agents in these analyses are “open source companies,”...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Jorge Quinteros puts me in his Photographer Spotlight
Brooklyn based photographer and traveller Jorge Quinteros interviewed me by email last week for his Photographer Spotlight series. He asked some really great questions that stopped and made me think a...
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James Duncan: When a Good Print goes Bad
Last night, while inspecting a print off my Epson 3880, my eyes met something very bad. At first, I didn’t believe what I saw. On second and third look, however the problem was still there. Staring me...
View ArticleJames Duncan: DPReview’s Canon 1D X overview
The Canon 1D X has been announced and, at least by the specs, it’s a monster. I mean that in a good way. A camera that is aimed at this level of the game should be a monster. I’m still absorbing the...
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