Submitted by ukstevieb
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When I asked a couple of days ago why Matt Mullenweg was in Microsoft’s PDC, I was never really expecting Matt to read my post and answer the question. Back then, it was just reported that he was called onstage by Microsoft’s (Read More)
Submitted by sfoskett
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Lots of folks have switched to Mac, its the most commonly used laptop in the Bay Area now. Sometimes people give me flack for using it, but I'll tell you why I use a Mac laptop:It just works! When going to a client site, a (Read More)
MakeUseOf.com:
Have you ever imagined what it would be like to pack up all of your hiking and camping gear and just take off for a few months to some obscure location in the Brazilian rain forests where there’s an alleged secret ancient cit (Read More)
Google Alerts - futurama:
Today’s stupid geek trick takes us to the unseen technical world beneath the surface of your favorite websites, and shows us how real geeks hide secret messages in the HTTP protocol headers. We’re talking Serious geek cred he (Read More)
Coding Horror:
Let's face it: we all write bad code.But not every programmer does something about that bad code they're polluting the world with, day in and day out. There's a whole universe of possibilities:Follow the instructions on the p (Read More)
Hacker News:
We are excited to announce that libcloud will be joining the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Incubator. Libcloud has been very fortunate to grow as a community and as a open source project. We hope that by joining the ASF li (Read More)
dzone.com: latest front page:
Apparently Mark Reinhold announced that closures would be added to JDK 7 at Devoxx today: I can’t say what to make of that really. For years Sun has been saying that there is no consensus on closures and delayed the formatio (Read More)
WebResourcesDepot:
For a web application, It is always a good idea to provide access to it from other platforms like mobile or desktop programs. As web designers/developers, desktop applications are harder to create as they have a totally diff (Read More)
My Clippings on NewsGator Online:
Open is at the core of many Yahoo! initiatives and products. Over the past two years Yahoo! has been hard at work to change how we develop products and interact with our developer community. In addition to being avid supporte (Read More)
Submitted by robdiana
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Over the past few years, we've worked hard to open source large pieces of our infrastructure such as Thrift, Scribe, and Hive, as we continue to take steps to support the open community and build a scalable, secure, and susta (Read More)
The Register:
Apache mercy killing Microsoft has released part of its .NET Framework - the part for internet-connected smart devices - into the open-source community.…. (Read More)
Grant's Grunts: Lucene Edition:
Flexible Collaborative Filtering In JAVA With Mahout Taste « Java. Internet. Algorithms. Ideas..
Nice writeup on one person’s experience getting started using Mahout Taste for building a recommendation system. (Read More)
Grant's Grunts: Lucene Edition:
Webcast: From Here to There, You Can Find it Anywhere: Building Local/Geo-Search with Apache Lucene and Solr sponsored by Lucid Imagination.I’ll be doing a webinar on spatial search with Sameer Maggon of ATT Interactive and R (Read More)
Hacker News:
Jack Balkin invited me to be on a panel yesterday at Yale’s Information Society Project conference, Journalism & The New Media Ecology, and I used my remarks to observe that one of the things up for grabs in the current news (Read More)
SitePoint:
Episode 36 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy), Brad Williams (@williamsba) and Kevin Yank (@sentience).Listen in your BrowserPlay this episode directly in your brows (Read More)
OStatic blogs:
The ApacheCon conference, which marked the 10th anniversary of the Apache Software Foundatoin, wrapped up a few days ago, and there were lots of highlights, including recognition from California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (Read More)
451 CAOS Theory:
I’ve written a few times recently about the fact that I think the open source engagement model practiced by companies such as Day Software will become more popular as we see an increasing number of proprietary companies engag (Read More)
Submitted by harisgx
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I was going through some interesting sections of Apache Lucene these days.I found it really interesting because, the project is a very popular one and it made most of the web applications to integrate complex search modules (Read More)