Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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.“

Scott Adams – Calendar as Filter: „I think the biggest software revolution of the future is that the calendar will be the organizing filter for most of the information flowing into your life. You think you are bombarded with too much information every day, but in reality it is just the timing of the information…

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…

Jon Udell – Can the Noosphere Save Us?: „We are all continually discovering useful knowledge that we want to share. Until very recently, it was costly to transmit that knowledge beyond the local sphere: friends, family, tribe. Now, suddenly, it’s free to address the whole world. The only cost is your time. Of course that…

Simon St. Laurent – Dreaming of Rails as the Next Microsoft Access: „The general practice set by Access’s creators from the beginning was to do as much as possible through visual interfaces rather than through code. In that, perhaps more than anything else, they struck a balance that made Access approachable while still letting it…

Rick Jelliffe at O’Reilly Broadcast – Announcing the date of the FOSS revolution: 2032!: „So why is retirement important? It is because I suspect that if FOSS can present itself in a form that is convenient and fun for retirees to take up as a hobby, it will have access to an incredible reserve army…

violet – The Internet of Things starts here, fun objects using RFID and WLAN: „Violet’s dream is therefore to make the physical space in which we live – our homes, offices, public spaces – a better place: rich, intelligent, connected, personalized, awe-inspiring, fun. Not a space that simulates 3D, but that naturally is 3D. A…

Eric Ries – Validated learning about customers: „The problem stems from selling each customer a custom one-time product. This is the magic of sales: by learning about each customer in-depth, they can convince each of them that this product would solve serious problems. That leads to cashing many checks. […] They are closing orders. They…

I keep forgetting how to get started with the wonderful rrdtool, so here’s a note to myself for the next time (and here’s the tutorial)… I’m creating a database with these characteristics: a single, once every 10 minute measured gauge named „num“ which is OK with up to 20 minute gaps between values 10 minute…

„EtherPad lets multiple people work on the same text simultaneously. […] Insanely useful for Meeting notes, Conference calls. […] No account required. The only really real-time collaborative editor on the web.“