Archive for the 'Software' Category
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal shares his insights into setting up a new PC in his column: Personal Technology — Personal Technology from The Wall Street Journal
I, too, have been struggling with a new PC, this one from Dell. It is a brand new laptop, graciously sent to me by my work [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Monday, February 12th, 2007
Mac Version - Yahoo! Messenger
Will Yahoo ever release an update to this version? This beta is really buggy in my opinion. It constantly drops the connection silently leaving you out of touch without any warning.
Yahoo Instant Messenger, Mac, Apple, OS X
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