Community Over Code: How To Pack For ApacheCon NA 2011
Don’t forget your passport! Airport: YVR Getting to the hotel: VancouverTips Local Google Map of Hotel The Westin Bayshore is the conference location The conference sessions/expo will all have an...
View ArticleStefan Bodewig: Apache Compress Antlib 1.1
A few days after Apache Commons Compress 1.3 has been released the Compress Antlib has seen a new release as well. This gives Ant support for Zip64 extensions, the Unix dump format (read-only) and the...
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Jochen Wiedmann: Still there, world!
This is not the end. But, let's face it: This (or any future post) might very well be my last. (In fact, last saturday I'd have been surprised about the additional week that I had since then. So, it...
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Matt Raible: Happy 9th Birthday Abbie!
Today we celebrated Abbie's 9th Birthday. It's hard to believe how grown up she is, but easy to love her. We had a blast celebrating with lots of her classmates and even had a magician thanks to a...
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Isabel Drost: Being in San Francisco
I spent the last two weeks together with Thilo in San Francisco - and neighboring areas. I had asked beforehand for recommendations on where to go and what to do, had purchased a “Rough Guide to...
View ArticleJasha Joachimsthal: Apache Rave demo video
I've been working a lot on Apache Rave lately. Apache Rave is a new light-weight, open source portal that uses OpenSocial gadgets and W3C widgets to render content. You may have already used...
View ArticleRobert Burrell Donkin: Agile Yorkshire: Scala, Pomodora and Timeboxing
At Agile Yorkshire on Tuesday I'll introduce timeboxing and the Pomodoro Technique before Aaron Pritzlaff talks about functional programming in Scala. If you're around in Leeds, you'll find a warm...
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Yoav Shapira: Book review: Tina Fey's Bossypants
I read Tina Fey's "Bossypants" on vacation in Israel last month. I don't remember why I picked it up, but one day I saw it in the Kindle app, and it fit my mood. It's a light-hearted funny book with...
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Jochen Wiedmann: ICU
Last weekend, I had the unexpected opportunity to participate in the nightly snoring contest held at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the neurological clinic, university of Tübingen. Such a chance...
View ArticleSimone Tripodi: It has been a nice OpenSource weekend
Weather was really bad for the whole weekend, rained heavily so we were forced stay home :(Anyway, not totally sad, OpenSource rescued me and brought fun to my home (even if my wife would have...
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Ioannis Canellos: Cloud Notifications with Apache Camel
PrologueYesterday I was having a talk with Adrian Cole and during our talk he had an unpleasant surprise. He found out that he forgot a node running on his Amazon EC2 for a couple of days and that it...
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Bryan Pendleton: Four above 2800!
As Dylan McClain observes in a column in today's NY Times, the current FIDE chess rankings list now includes four players with ratings of 2800 or higher:Magnus Carlsen, ranking 2826Viswanathan Anand,...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Egg Freckles reviews Pixelmator 2.0
I’ve not yet delved into the latest release of Pixelmator, but I’m certainly very happy that people are taking on Photoshop and look forward to playing with it. In the meantime, here’s Thomas Brand’s...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Rob Galbraith’s Nikon 1 system impressions
The Nikon 1 system chooses a different path than the ones taken by other mirror-less cameras, such as Micro Four Thirds. The smaller sensor makes for constraints, but the smaller lenses it allows gives...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Luminous Landscape’ first impressions of the Fuji X10
Michael Reichmann shares his opinions of the Fuji X10, the X100’s little brother and one of the latest contenders to the coat-pocket sized camera crown. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
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Rodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Directed graphs and reduction
One of the things I'm trying to learn about these days (along with genetic algorithms and I forget what else) is dependency graphs. I'm surprised at how little I've found about this online,...
View ArticleMatt Raible: New MacBook Pro and iMac
Almost a month ago, I wrote about how I was hoping to increase my developer happiness by getting a new iMac and MacBook Pro. I received a lot of good advice in the comments and proceeded to order place...
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Bryan Pendleton: Epic Win for Anonymous
I recently read Cole Stryker's Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's army conquered the web. Well, that's somewhat over-stating the accomplishment: I skimmed it; I waltzed through it; I breezed over...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Person with video camera shot by police at Occupy Oakland...
With no violence or confrontation underway, a man filming a line of police is shot by a rubber bullet. There was no justification for this. None. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
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Claus Ibsen: Coffe Machine and Camel in Action
Jonathan and I got published at the very end of last year when Manning announced that the Camel in Action book was available in print. As authors we are entitled to royalties of the sales of the book....
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