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Grant’s Grunts » Apple and Developers

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Grant’s Grunts » Apple and Developers
As a follow up from this year’s ApacheCon:
I had 30 people in my Lucene Boot Camp training class this time around and I would guess that at least 15 were on Apple laptops (50%, well above the general Apple market share).  I also would guess that there were more Mac [...]

Facebook invites ads into user profiles - Yahoo! News

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Facebook invites ads into user profiles - Yahoo! News
Hmmm, I seemed to have missed the part where the people producing all the content that Facebook is capitalizing on get a cut of the ad revenue that is generated from their pages. Why again is this a good thing for Facebook users?  Why should I [...]

Microsoft Defends Stealth Windows Updates - Yahoo! News

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Microsoft Defends Stealth Windows Updates - Yahoo! News
Solution:  Apple.

Really Large File Editing on OS X

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Anyone know a good, free tool for editing large text files (> 500 MBs)?  vi is decent, but not great.  Please email me or leave a comment.  I have an XML file that is around 1 GB that I need to manipulate, but vi is not really cutting it, and Emacs wants to load the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]