ApacheCon 2007 Europe: Sessions
I will be giving an all day tutorial on Lucene Java and a talk on “Advanced Lucene” at ApacheCon Europe this year (in Amsterdam!)
The tutorial will be a hands on look into adding Lucene into an application targeted at Java developers looking to add search to their application. The “Advanced Lucene” [...]

So I was working on indexing 15+ million documents using Lucene and it strikes me that I would like a little better low level support for dealing with files in Java. These files are stored in a several hundred directories, each containing 30K docs per directory.
The first approach I took to handling this is to [...]

My does it feel good to run! As I reported earlier, I have been slowly building back up my running base after being off for a long time due to a couple of surgeries. I know it is going to be a long process to build back up to doing my 20-40 miles [...]

Watch the video! It is mind-blowing. You can watch all the stupid idiots on YouTube doing dumb things, or you can watch this video where an intelligent person may just challenge your assumptions about the third world and its relation to us.

Had a great 3 hour ride south of Cary, NC yesterday. My first real long ride since coming back from hernia surgery and it felt great. Two friends and I did a bunch of back roads south of Cary (TOPO! TPO file GPX file) on a sunny 65 degree morning. The route [...]

No, it’s not chocolate cake for breakfast ala Bill Cosby, but it is a great way to jump start your morning and get a serving or two of veggies in you. And make it mixed greens or romaine or something that is actually green, not that iceberg crap that barely passes as a vegetable. [...]