Lately, the project at work has been revolving around an application search engine. We’re storing data in a database, and documents uploaded by users, and one of the specs requires search functionality to quickly parse both datasets and return the results. We’re using the Jakarta Lucene search framework as the foundation. Basically, Lucene is a […]
Posted on July 17th, 2003 by admin
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I discoved a truly disappointing fact this weekend about Galeon this weekend — it doesn’t work with Gnome 2.2 (the latest greatest release I have running on the Slack box at home). Humm. I only running Gnome 2.0 here at work, which is still compatible with the Gnome 1.2 libraries that Galeon was designed against. […]
Posted on July 14th, 2003 by admin
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I’ve decided to give Galeon a try while I use Gnome at work. In case you’re lazy and don’t want to follow the link, Galeon is a Gnome-based web browser based on Gecko, the Mozilla rendering engine. Galeon actually requires that Mozilla be installed on the machine (which is sorta odd), but I got over […]
Posted on July 11th, 2003 by admin
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I read an interesting series of threads on Slashdot over the last few days. First….. Red Hat plans open source Java. At first I thought *oh, kewl*. A complete implementation of the JVM and JDK that is entirely open source _and_ endorsed by Sun (the Blackdown project already has an open source JVM, but it […]
Posted on June 24th, 2003 by admin
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Meh! Two steps forward, four steps back. I’m still (day number 4, maybe, I’ve lost count) trying to get a Turbine/Torque web application up and running with the Maven build tool. Here’s a short list of some of the difficulties I’m facing…. Torque (an OM layer for the database) has the capability to generate Java […]
Posted on June 5th, 2003 by admin
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Quite a busy day at work. We went from pretty casually doing design work for the next iteration of the product, to madly rushing to ramp up to do development work. Yeesh. Just a bried overview of today’s fun: * Finish design work on the application’s search engine. * Setup a new instance of the […]
Posted on June 3rd, 2003 by admin
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So…here’s a lively discussion about the preview release of Java 1.5 (Tiger). There are many new features, some interesting and useful, and others that some may call syntaxtic sugar. I found the whole discussion interesting because Java is fast becoming M$ bastard brother. Many in the open source community are leary of the langauge, because […]
Posted on June 1st, 2003 by admin
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The Apache Project is probably the biggest open source technology project besides the GNU/Linux kernel (and distributions). Best known for its web server, the Apache group also has a very lively and productive Java group known as Jakarta. The Jakarta group is best known for the Tomcat application server and the Struts framework, but there […]
Posted on May 29th, 2003 by admin
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Slashdot has posted an article (well, two, actually) about the release of the Unix-Haters Handbook (Note: the PDF has disappeared from the above page, thanks to being Slashdotted). Regardless of what you think about Unix (or any *nix), it’s a good, funny read. I’m about halfway through it, and so far, the funniest part has […]
Posted on April 27th, 2003 by admin
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I’ve started the ramp-up to my new job over the past few days. Mostly I’ve just been setting up my workstation….a Dell Dimension with a Pentium 4 2GHz processor, .5 GB RAM, running RedHat 7.3. I’m not too chucked about RH 7.3…my preference would have been Mandrake 9, since it seems to be better suited […]
Posted on April 21st, 2003 by admin
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