I.B.M. to Push ‘Cloud Computing,’ Using Data From Afar - New York Times
The software that I.B.M. is packaging in its cloud offering is called Hadoop, running on the Linux operating system. Hadoop is based on an open-source search project called Nutch, and an open-source version of Google’s MapReduce software for spreading complex computer tasks [...]
Ask.com Web Search
OK, so we keep hearing about all the new things Ask.com is up to (like Ask3D), but, in my opinion, they still are missing the key thing: quality results. I don’t care how pretty the look and feel is if I can’t rely on the results.
Try, for instance, a search on Ask.com [...]
Here’s a Maven tip that has helped me a few times: If things are failing and you can’t figure out why, try deleting your local repository and starting fresh with a new set of downloads. This has saved the day for me during at least 3 different releases that weren’t going through. [...]
So the running joke in open source is that anytime you need to know how something works, you should just go look at the code. Thus, the documentation in the large majority of open source projects really sucks. Now, I have been a long time user and contributer to open source and have always gotten [...]
Whew, finally some time to talk about ApacheCon Europe, which happened two weeks ago in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
First off, the trip started off on a bad foot when our flight to Paris, France got canceled due to bad weather in Newark. Unfortunately, we didn’t get the message from the airline in the morning because [...]
I wish PowerPoint had a way to put down estimated times for each slide and then sum up the values to tell you how long your presentation is going to run. I do know about the rehearse timings feature, but that is not what I am talking about since I have to run the [...]
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