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BackwardsCompatibility - Lucene-java Wiki Or, how to introduce new methods to Interfaces

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

BackwardsCompatibility - Lucene-java Wiki
Hmmm, so I have been pondering this for a while and don’t quite know a good solution…  So help would be appreciated.
As an active developer of Lucene, we have pretty strict rules about Backwards Compatibility, as evidenced by the link given above.  For the most part, what this translates to, is the [...]

Technical Pet Peeves

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Couple of things that have been annoying me lately

Landline phones with Caller ID functionality.  Say you get a call from somewhere that is long distance.  You select the # in the caller id and then you hit the dial button.  Phone dials!  Success!  Not.  Stupid phone doesn’t add the 1 first.  My current phone from [...]

Email address mangling in hopes of preventing spam

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Honestly, does writing an email address as “yourname AT example dot com” on a website really prevent anymore spam than writing “yourname@example.com”?  Seriously, the regular expression to parse the former isn’t all that much more difficult to write than the latter.
I would  suggest that you have to write the address in such a way that [...]

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 [...]