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ApacheCon Speaker Gifts Translation Fun

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

From the instructions for the really cool laser pointer we got as ApacheCon speakers:

“Do not shoot the laser to man eyes as eyes will be hurted by the laser”
“Please take out the batteries when not use, as it will be use up the battery power if you put the batteries in the pen for a [...]

LogoContest - Solr Wiki

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

LogoContest - Solr Wiki
Wow, there is some decent swag being offered for the Solr Logo Contest.  8 GB iPod Nano, bunch of gift certificates…  So, if you’re the artistic type, or know someone who is, let them know about the contest.  Details are on the link above.

Career advice for recent (or soon to be grads) in software engineering

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Came across this article on /. (Slashdot | The Stigma of a Tech Support Background) and it got me thinking about the person’s problem and some advice I’ve given a some recent grads that I have worked with.   As I see it, the biggest problem a hiring manage has with someone straight out of college [...]

BSD/Apache as theft????

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Enter The JBoss Matrix
C’mon Mr. Fleury, really?  People are stealing BSD/Apache code?  How can one steal something that we are giving away?  That’s like saying I am stealing air every time I breathe.  If anything, more people steal (L)GPL code, if you assume the notion of theft applies at all, given that they use it [...]

Apache Mahout - Overview

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Apache Mahout - Overview
Just thought I would let people know that Mahout is officially a Lucene subproject at the Apache Software Foundation.  Mahout’s goal is to build practical, scalable machine learning libraries for a variety of uses.