James Duncan: One hundred and forty characters
A beautiful portrait project based on the 140 character nature of Twitter. (via Shawn Blanc) Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
View ArticleJasha Joachimsthal: Google+ minus 1
A social network is like the new hip club in town. The innovators start a place that is hip, maybe a bit underground. They invite their friends who are not mainstream but know how to create a good...
View ArticleMatt Raible: Play Scala's Anorm, Heroku and PostgreSQL Issues
This article is the 5th in a series on about my adventures developing a Fitness Tracking application for my talk at Devoxx in two weeks. Previous articles can be found at: Integrating Scalate and Jade...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-11-02
Inside the mind of the octopus : “Researchers who study octopuses are convinced that these boneless, alien animals—creatures whose ancestors diverged from the lineage that would lead to ours roughly...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Save UEA Music
As an alumnus of the University of East Anglia (in Computing), I was shocked to hear that UEA are closing the School of Music. As an Honorary Research Fellow of the School of Music, who saw first-hand...
View ArticleJean-Baptiste Onofré: Apache Karaf moved to OSGi r4.3
Apache Karaf trunk (future 3.0 release) now fully supports OSGi 4.3 release by running Apache Felix framework 4.0.1 and Eclipse Equinox 3.7.1. If this update is just a support update, it gives us the...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: Andreesen Horowitz bloggers
The blogging portfolio at the Andreesen Horowitz web site continues to grow, with Peter Levine the latest to start a blog.I think that most of this blogging activity has been inspired by Ben Horowitz,...
View ArticleDaniel Kulp: Apache Camel in OSGi
After writing my post about setting up Apache CXF in OSGi, I’ve had a couple people ask about how to do the same with Apache Camel. Camel is a bit more complex due to all the libraries that it may pull...
View ArticleMichael McCandless: Near-real-time readers with Lucene's SearcherManager and...
Lasttime, I described the useful SearcherManager class,coming in the next (3.5.0) Lucene release, to periodically reopen yourIndexSearcher when multiple threads need to share it.This class presents a...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: Kindle Lending Library
Wow! This, by itself, is just about enough to make me go buy a Kindle.
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-11-03
Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS – Over a million writes per second : NetFlix’ benchmarks — impressively detailed. ‘48, 96, 144 and 288 instances’, across 3 EC2 AZs in us-east, successfully...
View ArticleJon Scott Stevens: Month 3 - It is official now.
It is official, Jeff and I have our own company now. Voost LLC. You can sign up on the website to be notified when we launch. The focus of the company is on sporting event registrations. As a road bike...
View ArticleEdward J. Yoon: Cloud 기반에 Hadoop과 NoSQL 솔루션들
몇몇 사람들의 아마존 EC2 경험담, 그리고 내 경험에 의하면 역시 잘 안맞는다. Hadoop이나 NoSQL같은 분산 솔루션을 10 VM nodes 규모의 클러스터로 만들어 사용하는건 모르겠으나, 100 VM nodes 이상 규모의 클러스터로 만들면 생각 만큼의 성능은 기대하기 힘들다. 우리집 화장실에 'made in 용산' PC 10대보다 더 느리다. 이런...
View ArticleSergey Beryozkin: Capturing the info about roles with JAASLoginInterceptor
CXF ships a useful utility JAASLoginInterceptor which greatly simplifies the process of interacting with the JAAS subsystem and creating a current SecurityContext encapsulating the information about a...
View ArticleClaus Ibsen: Splitting big XML files with Apache Camel
In the upcoming Apache Camel 2.9 we have improved the support for splitting big XML files using streaming and very low memory footprint. In previous versions and examples provided on the Camel website,...
View ArticleColm O hEigeartaigh: Apache CXF STS documentation - part VI
In the previous post, I covered the TokenValidator interface that is used by the CXF STS to validate tokens, and two implementations that ship with the STS to validate SecurityContextTokens and...
View ArticleYoav Shapira: Movie review: "2 night"
Last night I watched the movie "2 night" at the Coolidge Corner theatre near my house. It's part of the Boston Jewish Film Festival, and I went with a friend (Osnat) who's also an Israeli originally...
View ArticleTed Husted
Ted @ ApacheCon Ted Husted of NimbleUser will be speaking at ApacheCon in Vancouver BC CA on November 10 and 11 on "The Secret Life of Open Source" and ".NET @ Apache.org". The Secret Life of Open...
View ArticleBryan Pendleton: They're fish!
I really enjoyed this fabulous interview with William Gibson in The Paris Review.Gibson, of course, is one of the greatest science fiction writers ever, the man who coined the term "cyberspace", who...
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