Well, after 3+ years at CNLP (Center for Natural Language Processing), I am leaving to join a startup. I must say it has been a lot of fun working with so many good people on so many interesting projects and I wish them all the best of luck in the future.
I will post more [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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