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 [...]
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” [...]
So I was working on indexing 15+ million documents using Lucene and it strikes me that I would like a little better low level support for dealing with files in Java. These files are stored in a several hundred directories, each containing 30K docs per directory.
The first approach I took to handling this is to [...]
I am launching a new blog called Paper of the Week. The explanation of why is contained here. In a nutshell, it is my attempt to learn more about the Computer Science field, especially in the areas of machine learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Retrieval (IR), Question Answering and also general algorithms [...]
Programmers to blame for hard-to-use software - Yahoo! News
Uh, buy a Mac? Doesn’t solve all the beefs of this article, but I long ago stopped worrying about configurations and advanced options (unless I want them) and wondering where things are in the menus and, for the most part, software that sucks. Apple just [...]
Enterprise Java Community: The Mac as a Java Development and Execution Platform
Is Walmart.com running on Apple? Or at least being developed on Apple? Interesting article on performance on Macs for development by someone at Walmart.com. Perhaps the most interesting statement is the first one, where the author states that most of his [...]
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