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Another friend blogging
Another friend bit the dust started blogging: Cleonte’s GitHub blog – bookmarks at the moment but looking forward to more involved posts :-).
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Using Jython from Maven
This blogpost was originally posted to the Transylvania JUG blog. On the surface it looks simple: just add the dependency and you can run the example code. However what the jython artifact doesn’t get you are the standard python libraries like re. This means that as soon as you try to do something like the…
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How to post high-quality videos to Google Video
If you have Google Apps for Business, Google Video is still the preferred method of storing videos "in the cloud": it is easier to embed into Google Docs and probably more importantly – it can be truly private (you can only access it if you are logged in with the correct account – as opposed…
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Integrating Maven with Ivy
This post was originally published on the Transylvania JUG blog. The problem: you have some resources in an Ivy repository (and only there) which you would like to use in a project based on Maven. Possible solutions: Migrate the repository to Maven (Nexus for example) since Ivy can easily use Maven-style repositories (so your Ivy…
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Upgrading the Options (GlobeTrotter) GI515m
Recently I needed to install an Options (GlobeTrotter) GI515m 3G USB modem on a machine which previously used an older version of the modem (the iCON 225). This seems a pretty common scenario (an existing user getting an update), however the process seems less-than-straight forward: Get a second computer with the same operating system version…
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Getting the most out of your audio recording with Audacity
This article aims to show you some simple techniques to improve the quality of your voice recording quickly and cheaply (for free actually). But first things first: The best audio is the one you don’t have to improve. Some simple steps you can perform in advance to maximize quality: Use quality equipment. Here are some articles…
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More videos
Two inches to the right via mubix: Jane Austen’s Fight Club via Wondermark: Jane Austen’s Fight Club from Keith Paugh on Vimeo. Sink The Bismarck: Storm – a beat poem:
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Of maps and men
A very cool visualization of the imigration / emigration data: To remember: the relative sizes of countries / continents on most maps is not representative of the true ratios, because most map projections were not meant for that. If you want to play around with different projections, here is a nice page from Wolfram (unfortunately…
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Informative videos about copyright and remixing issues
Walking on Eggshells: Documentary about Remix Culture – via the comixtalk blog: Internet is Freedom – a speech given by Lawrence Lessig at the Italian Parlament – via the Security4All blog: PBS: Copyright Criminals – while the video is not online, you can watch the trailer and listen to some remixes inspired by it which…
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Recording test performance with Jenkins
In many (most?) systems performance is an important non-functional requirement. And even if you attained the required performance, it is useful to keep an eye on it to detect if a codechange involuntarily deteriorates it. Enter the Performance plugin for Jenkins. Using it you can record the performance (as in: speed of execution) of your…