Autor: Tim Strehle

Enterprise Search – Enterprise search doesn’t mean mortgaging the farm: „So before you decide you need to budget a half million dollars or more for search, consider what Walter Underwood, chief architect of Ultraseek and now search evangelist at Netflix once told me. Paraphrasing: “You can download Solr then spend a ton of money customizing…

Jon Udell – Rebooting my 2002-2006 archive: „I’m glad I’m not in publishing anymore. It turns out to be a lousy way to keep your stuff published.“

Scott Adams – Teamwork: „The dominant team members will get their way over the objections of the meek, no matter how competent the meek might be. […] All meetings last longer than they should.“

Tim Bray – Less Like Oration: „The Net has had a twofold effect on short-form publishing: First, it’s cheap, verging on free. Second, it enjoys many routes to potentially large audiences. It’s the second that’s interesting. Until recently, you simply couldn’t find a large audience for your thoughts unless you had books on shelves in…

David Ascher – Getting insight into one’s own email: „The “start page”, which makes a lot of sense in Firefox, never made a huge amount of sense to me in Thunderbird. In particular, it’s shown only when a folder is selected, and no message is selected. That’s hardly a logical time to show the (colorful,…

Eric Ries – Fear is the mind-killer: „When a new engineer started at IMVU, I had a simple rule: they had to ship code to production on their first day. […] For some, this was an absolutely terrifying experience. „What if I take the site down?!“ was a common refrain. I tried to make sure…

Adam Shand – Lessons Learned from Previous Employment: „Surviving the loss of a key person, is never as hard as you think it will be. […] The one thing that managers hate, more than anything else, is being surprised. […] Everything takes longer than you expect. Lots longer. […] One of the primary jobs of…

Grant Ingersoll – Exploring Lucene and Solr’s TrieRange Capabilities: „Now, however, thanks to the new org.apache.lucene.search.trie package (currently located in the contrib/queries area of Lucene, but it may move to the Lucene core, see below) and it’s addition to Solr via a FieldType, Lucene and Solr users can take advantage of much faster range searches.“

Timothy M. O’Brien at O’Reilly Radar – Google Announces Support for Microformats and RDFa: „On Tuesday, Google introduced a feature called Rich Snippets which provides users with a convenient summary of a search result at a glance. They have been experimenting with microformats and RDFa, and are officially introducing the feature and allowing more sites…

RJ Owen at InsideRIA – New York Times AIR reader released: „As a whole, the application does a better job replicating the „newspaper“ experience than reading in the browser. […] Clean design and great execution make this a stellar user experience, and something other companies should strive to emulate. Even more impressive, I’ve had this…