"ivy-maven-plugin" allows Maven build to download and use Ivy artifacts with any custom Ivy resolver. Artifacts downloaded can be used for compiling sources, running tests or running your own Maven plugins.

There are crazy days and then there are days like yesterday. Kickstarter has experienced some frantic hours but nothing like what happened in the 24-hour span between Wednesday at 6:54pm and Thursday at 6:44pm. Two million-dollar projects, a major political speech involving Kickstarter, an amazing band launching a project for a comeback 20 years in the making... the list goes on. Here's a minute-by-minute breakdown of the day's events.

The other day, I tried out Unroll.me, a clever new service that reads your inbox to let you unsubscribe from mailing lists and other unwanted e-mail flotsam with a single click.

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I am pleased to be able to say that TeamCitySharp is now supports mono. In order to get the project supported I had to change a few parts of the system.

When we started KAYAK in 2004, we issued BlackBerries to the entire engineering team so we could communicate instantly 24/7. Today we've all switched, and it seems our users are doing the same. Our audience of BlackBerry users has been declining precipitously, and we can't justify the cost any longer.

Bloomberg’s BLPAPI will soon go completely open source. “We are essentially taking the programming interface that we use extensively already and we are putting an MIT-style license around it,” said Shawn Edwards, Bloomberg LP’s chief technology officer.”