2010/12/13

Idea: scripting for the rest of us.

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Rhino has had continuations for a long time now. JavaScript is the language of the web. However, long-running executions are generally only...
2010/12/11

Idea: decentralised P2P website mirroring

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The recent case of Wikileaks being booted off AWS provoked the following thought: if lots of people started mirroring wikileaks on EC2, Amaz...
2010/12/08

Thoughts on WikiLeaks

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We should be more outraged at the malfeasance revealed than at the manner in which we learnt of it. That we aren't, speaks to our cynici...
2010/11/25

'War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning' by Chris Hedges

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This book is about war, but not about guns or tanks or tactics or strategy. It laments the nature of war, which is murder. It describes the ...
2010/11/17

Mobile telcos need to evolve.

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It's commonly understood that mobile network operators are afraid being turned into dumb pipes. I think that they should reject this fea...
2010/06/05

On synthetic genomics aka 'artificial life', and dire predictions.

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By now most people have read about ' Artificial Life ', i.e. the transplant of a DNA sequence manufactured based on a digital bluepr...
2010/05/19

Jevons paradox, Moore's law and utility computing

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TL;DR: A quirk of economics may explain why computers have always seemed too slow, and could indicate that a utility computing boom will ta...
2010/04/18

YAGNI and the boring stuff

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YAGNI is an acyonym meaning "You Ain't Gonna Need It", and behind this lies the principle in software that code should not be ...
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2010/04/16

And now for messed up UK politics: The Digital Economy Act and other IP

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I want to bring together some articles I've read recently, which some of you may be familar with. In Why Content is a Public Good , an e...

The timing could not be better. Or worse, depending on your POV.

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So, GOP Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell flies into New York to coordinate messaging with Wall Street in opposition to the proposed f...
2010/02/15

The advantages of programming on a small netbook.

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Most software developers prefer to work on "fast" computers, and I am normally one of them. Many of my tools work best with lots o...
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2010/02/06

EC2 and CXF: Serialising objects in JAX-WS

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The second problem I had with CXF (or, more correctly, JAXB) was in trying to serialise JAXB objects such as CreateVolumeType into XML using...
2010/02/04

EC2 and CXF / JAX-WS: Configuring WSDL endpoints & service URL

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So, it's been a couple of weeks in real-time and about ten hours in "code"-time since I last posted on EC2 & JAX-WS, since...
2010/01/28

EC2 Spot instances, latency

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There's been an interesting conversation sputtering along about internal network latency on EC2 and its possible relation to the newly-i...
2009/12/27

Building a WS-Security enabled SOAP client in Maven2 to the EC2 WSDL using JAX-WS / CXF & WSS4J: tips & tricks

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Generating a Java client from the Amazon EC2 WSDL that correctly used WS-Security is not completely simple. This blog post from Glen Mazza ...