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Grant’s Grunts » Apple and Developers

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Grant’s Grunts » Apple and Developers
As a follow up from this year’s ApacheCon:
I had 30 people in my Lucene Boot Camp training class this time around and I would guess that at least 15 were on Apple laptops (50%, well above the general Apple market share).  I also would guess that there were more Mac [...]

Atlanta’s Drought

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

So, I’m in Atlanta for the ApacheCon conference (which is going great) at the Westin hotel.   I drove in from Raleigh.   Since pretty much all of the southeast is under severe drought conditions (Atlanta being one of the worst hit), I expected to at least be made aware of it when I checked in [...]

ApacheCon Europe Trip Reviews

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

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 [...]

Powerpoint Wish

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

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 [...]