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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 [...]

rebelutionary: Life Is A Hire Way: 5 Tips For Startup Hiring

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

rebelutionary: Life Is A Hire Way: 5 Tips For Startup Hiring
Lately, I’ve been wishing I lived in Australia, because this guy seems to get it and Atlassian sounds like a great place to work (plus, he gets Open Source, and what makes it great.) Not that I am looking for a job, b/c I [...]

Donating Licenses to Open Source Projects

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Not sure if I’m noticing this trend a wee bit late, but it seems like more and more software tool vendors are bending over backwards to give away their development tools to the open source community. Atlassian does this for JIRA, it’s issue tracking software, Jet Brains does for IntelliJ, Cenqua Clover for test [...]

Lucene :: More ApacheCon Info

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

Lucene :: More ApacheCon Info
I have posted more info on my ApacheCon Euorpe talks over on my Lucene blog.
Lucene, Java, ApacheCon, Europe, tutorial
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ApacheCon 2007 Europe: Sessions

Monday, January 29th, 2007

ApacheCon 2007 Europe: Sessions
I will be giving an all day tutorial on Lucene Java and a talk on “Advanced Lucene” at ApacheCon Europe this year (in Amsterdam!)
The tutorial will be a hands on look into adding Lucene into an application targeted at Java developers looking to add search to their application. The “Advanced Lucene” [...]