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Ioannis Canellos: JavaOne and Oracle Develop 2010
I just returned home from Java ONE and Oracle Develop 2010 (which was also my first ONE) and I thought that it would be a good idea to take 5 minutes and share the experience.IntroThe city of San...
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Isabel Drost: GoTo Con AMS - Day 1
Last week GoTo Con took place in Amsterdam. Being a sister conference to GoTo in Aarhus the Amsterdam event focused on the broad topics of agile development, architectural challenges, backend and...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-10-22
Avoiding Full GCs in HBase with MemStore-Local Allocation Buffers : Fascinating. Evading the Java GC by reimplementing a slab allocator, basically (tags: memory allocation java gc jvm hbase memstore...
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Bryan Pendleton: Mojave Air and Space Port
Here's a great photo-essay on the Mojave Air and Space Port. I used to pass this pretty routinely in the 1990's, when I would go visit my parents in Ridgecrest.It's been 20 years now, but the memories...
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Hiranya Jayathilaka: JMS Proxy Services with Fail-Over Support
Rajika has written a very comprehensive article about setting up WSO2 ESB with JMS in a fail-over scenario. The concept of fail-over endpoints is integral to WSO2 ESB. The user can define a fail-over...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: GoTo Con AMS - Day 2
Day two of GoTo Con Amsterdam started with a keynote by former Squeak developer Dan Ingalls. He introduced the Lively kernel - a component architecture for HTML5 that runs in any browser and allows...
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Tim Williams: Enlightened corporate leadership
In a world where corporate leadership is dominated by a pursuit of growth and profit, it's encouraging to see some examples of enlightened leadership. I initially came across this post from Tim...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): LEGO Mindstorms application: mixing model...
When we dug out our Testors paints a few weeks ago in order to paint some new miniatures, they were pretty much all separated or dried up. Not surprisingly, since we haven't used them in more than ten...
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Yoav Shapira: Back from Israel
It's been a few weeks since my last post, but for a good reason ;) I was visiting my family in Israel, an annual trip at this point. This time I stayed for a full three weeks, longer than normal,...
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Jacopo Cappellato: Canzone per AM
perchè basta anche un niente per essere felici,basta vivere come le cose che dicida "Canzone per Alda Merini" di Roberto Vecchioni
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Isabel Drost: See you in Vancouver at Apache Con NA 2011
Mid November Apache hosts its famous yearly conference - this time in Vancouver/Canada. They kindly accepted my presentations on Apache Mahout for intelligent data analysis (mostly focused on...
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Bryan Pendleton: Hot Wheels!
Mmmm... Hot Wheels ... I love Hot Wheels! So I completely loved this video.The analysis of the track seems pretty reasonable to me; I think the killer question is the cost. Those booster motors aren't...
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Michael McCandless: Additions to Compact Language Detector API
I've made some small improvements after my quick initial port of Google's Compact Language Detection Library, starting with some helpful Python constants: cld.ENCODINGS has all the encoding names...
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James Duncan: John McCarthy 1927-2011
John McCarthy on March 5th, 2008 at ETech 2008. John McCarthy was the inventor of the Lisp language and coined the term “Artificial Intelligence” in the 1950’s. In the sixties, his thoughts on treating...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Apple’s Quiet MacBook Pro Update
Today’s quiet update is pretty much a spec rev. Faster CPUs, upgraded GPUs, and bigger base hard drive configurations. Suprisingly, there’s still a SuperDrive on board. My guess is that will go away in...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Apache Con NA
Title: Apache Con NALocation: VancouverLink out: Click hereStart Date: 2011-11-07End Date: 2011-11-11
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Claus Ibsen: About Camel 2.7.4, 2.8.2 and 2.9 Releases
Today the Camel team announced the availability of the Apache Camel 2.7.4 and 2.8.2 releases. These release are mostly bug fix releases to ensure stability on those branches. Albeit 2.8.2 has more than...
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Yoav Shapira: Cool little poem from "All my friends are dead"
My little sister Ayelet was here to visit Boston for a few days earlier this month. She found and bought this little book, All My Friends Are Dead, by Avery Monsen and Jory John. It's a funny little...
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Michael McCandless: Accuracy and performance of Google's Compact Language...
To get a sense of the accuracy and performance of Google's CompactLanguage Detector, I ran some tests against two other packages: Apache Tika, implemented in Java, using its LanguageIdentification...
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