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Nick Kew: Pavlovian Terror
Some time ago I had the misfortune to rent a flat and find myself with neighbours from hell. Two of them, brother and sister. Both of them would frequently turn the stereo right up at any time of day...
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Claus Ibsen: Apache Camel 2.8.3 Released
This is just a quick blog entry to say that Apache Camel 2.8.3 has been released. The JIRA tracker has about 60 tickets resolved for this release.
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Claus Ibsen: Splitting big XML files with Apache Camel - Part 2
In my previous blog about splitting big files with Apache Camel, I said we were working on another solution, which is a new camel-stax component. The work is now complete, and the component will be...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Experience with Git
The git vs svn permathread seems to have reignited at the ASF, and I thought I would describe some of my actual experiences with git in the hopes that it will help anchor the discussion. The context:...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: December Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin
First of all please note that meetup organisation is being transitioned over to our xing meetup group. So in order to be notified of future meetings, make sure to join that group. Please make also sure...
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Martijn Dashorst: Connecting to MongoLabs on heroku
For an internal Topicus application I wanted to deploy to Heroku and utilize MongoDB through MongoLabs. The main reason to use MongoLabs: they have a free 240MB database plan, and I wanted to try...
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Ian Boston: Minimalism
In spare moments between real work, I’ve been experimenting with a light weight content server for user generated content. In short, that means content in a hierarchical tree that is shallow and very...
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Edward J. Yoon: Living life
Have you once thought about how many days you have left until you die? If so you already know that what a cruel thing is time. Human life is too short. Everyday is very precious, don't stress the small...
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Edward J. Yoon: Rough analysis of Google's Pregel-clone projects.
1. Apache Hama is currently focused on implementing pure BSP computing engine on top of Hadoop and its performance. They also plan to add a Pregel-like graph computing framework. 2. Y!'s giraph is...
View ArticleOrtwin Glück: [Code] Oracle without swap
I have been running Oracle 11.2 on x86_64 linux 2.6.39 with no swap and transparent hugepage support. The system has 6GB RAM and vm.overcommit_memory=0. Oracle is configured to using automatic memory...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Twilight
Yes, I read Twilight. I wanted to be informed before dismissing it as teenage-girl boyfriend/girlfriend tripe masquerading as a vampire novel.So, now that I've read it - it is indeed heavy on the...
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Jeremy Quinn: Reflections on Commuting [Flickr]
sharkbait posted a photo: The daily commute from Vauxhall At least it is a lovely morning
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Steve Loughran: Alternate Hadoop filesystems
My coverage of Netapp's Hadoop solution not only generated a blip in network traffic to the site, but a blip in people from NetApp viewing my LinkedIn profile (remember: the mining cuts both ways),...
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Yoav Shapira: Daily pic project, worth doing?
I recent stumbled upon this 2006 blog post, "How to be interesting," via news.ycombinator. It's an interesting post with good ideas, many of which I do already. But one that seems appealing is...
View ArticleDave Johnson: Upgraded to Roller 5.1-dev
I just upgraded this site to Roller 5.1-dev, Subversion rev 1175172. This unreleased version of Roller includes new mobile theming capability (mentioned in my previous post), allowing a theme to define...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Speedometer
SpeedometerNovember 26, 2011He already doesn’t watch the road,handlebars weaving about as his eyes areeverywherebut in front.Now he wants a speedometerto gauge the break-neck speedas he hurtles...
View ArticleSimone Tripodi: Apache Maven Fluido Skin 1.0 is out!
I know, it is just a skin with nothing special neither original, but I think that also mixing good pieces of software is someway nobody already did before, has its originality :)For my few readers, the...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-11-26
747s using VLANs to secure in-flight access to engine management systems : ‘I was contracted to test the systems on a Boeing 747. They had added a new video system that ran over IP. They segregated...
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Nick Kew: Interesting Times
The government’s latest announcements are sounding increasingly like NuLab Lite: government to intervene in markets, to pick winners and losers, to pour other people’s money into selected places....
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Olivier Lamy: From a pull request to a jira issue
After the generate a patch and attach it to a jira issue, it's now the time to have a tool to create an issue from a patch request (the current implementation works only for github pull request).So the...
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