Isabel Drost: GeeCon - Solr at Allegro
One particularly interesting to me was on Allegro’s (polish Ebay) Solr usage. In terms of numbers: They have 20Mio offers in Poland, another 10Mio active offers in partnering countries. In addition in...
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Danny Angus: If Google and Oracle made aeroplanes where would your sympathy...
There's been a lot of talk about the Oracle vs Google court case, and I was reading this when it occurred to me that I have a few reservations about the strength of Google's argument, and perhaps you'd...
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Bryan Pendleton: Is Elon Musk Tony Stark?
I'm not much of a billionaire-celebrity type, but you gotta admit that what SpaceX is doing is pretty amazing.
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Bryan Pendleton: Stunning pictures of the American west
Even though they're actually only 140 years old, you really should have a look at these gorgeous pictures: In Focus - The American West, 150 Years Ago - The Atlantic. I particularly like the picture of...
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Bryan Pendleton: Queen Anne Tower Reconstruction in Alameda California
Here's a nice video made by my friend and co-worker Alan about the elegant renovation/restoration work he did on his 120-year-old house's tower. 2010-2011 Reconstruction of the tower on an 1895 Queen...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-05-25
Copyfraud – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : ‘a term coined by Jason Mazzone (Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School) to describe situations where individuals and institutions illegally...
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Yoav Shapira: #rtw2012: packing
Background: I'm going on a round-the-world (RTW) trip this summer. This is one of a series of blog posts providing additional details. This particular blog post talks about packing for the trip. Like...
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Bryan Pendleton: Another crowded weekend on Mount Everest?
The forecast is good, the teams are climbing, and the MountainTrip team have summited.
View ArticleIsabel Drost: GeeCon - Testing hell and how to fix it
The last regular talk I went to was on testing hell at Atlassian – in particular the JIRA project. What happened to JIRA might actually be known to developers who have to deal with huge legacy projects...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Maybe Germany got a bailout too
In the debt crisis, Germany is cast as the adult and Greece as the child. It may be bit more complicated: “When the European Union and the European Central Bank stepped in to bail out the struggling...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Lakhdar Boumediene starts anew after years at Gitmo
From the New York Times: “It was James, a thickset American interrogator nicknamed “the Elephant,” who first told Lakhdar Boumediene that investigators were certain of his innocence, that two years of...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Getty’s new watermark
I’ve long since come to hate (hate, hate!) watermarks on photographs. They detract from the image in ways small to large, depending on the watermark and the style. Yet, they serve a purpose and in a...
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James Duncan: Gulf of Tunis
Looking out over the Gulf of Tunis Posted by James Duncan Davidson.
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Andrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-26
How to not kill a cyclist: http://t.co/JPIAXEqL # @directhex I think that's known as "move to the netherlands"? # @rocketjohn Damn fancy plugs you have in your house … # @jimjag I'd say...
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Andrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-26
How to not kill a cyclist: http://t.co/JPIAXEqL # @directhex I think that's known as "move to the netherlands"? # @rocketjohn Damn fancy plugs you have in your house … # @jimjag I'd say...
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Bryan Pendleton: Anand-Gelfand game 11: draw
Gelfand had White, Anand's 7th move varied from game 9, and the result was a 24-move draw. Shipov: Having a wide choice isn't always a good thing, my friends. You're beset by constant doubts and a lot...
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Bryan Pendleton: Double-speed Flash?
Bizarre computer behavior number 1,413: After some recent update in the last week or so (I'm not sure which update, specifically), my Flash player is playing all videos at double-speed! And I can't...
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Bryan Pendleton: Things I'm reading this weekend
In between the barbecuing and the gardening and the walks with the dog, a few things to read: Michael Wolff: The Facebook FallacyThe subtext—an overt subtext—of the popular account of Facebook is that...
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Isabel Drost: Teddy in Poznan
Some images taken in Poznan after GeeCon - big Thanks! to Dawid for giving advise on where to go for sightseeing, exhibitions and going-out. The tour started close to river Warta - it being a sunny day...
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Adrian Sutton: Default to Development Settings
Most systems have multiple configuration profiles – one for production, one for development and often other profiles for staging, testing etc. Minimising differences between these configurations is...
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