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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 [...]

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 [...]

On Blogs and Browsers

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

I have been writing three different blogs for a while now, two within a niche area (Paper of the Week, POTW, and my Lucene Blog) and a more general one, the one you are reading now. POTW is very focused on me learning and attempting to explain, in real world terms, academic papers [...]

Phoogle Maps on Dreamhost

Friday, October 6th, 2006

Whew! I finally have Phoogle Maps working after some intensive PHP debugging (mind you, I am not a PHP guy, but it isn’t that hard to get the basics if you know programming). Turns out the big problem was in my default PHP configuration as setup by Dreamhost (btw, they are an awesome [...]

Cambrian House Publicity Stunt

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Nice publicity stunt by Cambrian House. Turns out the start up sent 1,000 pizzas to the Googleplex in an effort to lure the engineers outside. They filmed the whole thing and put it on YouTube.
See it here: