Archive for the 'Software' Category
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Came across this article on /. (Slashdot | The Stigma of a Tech Support Background) and it got me thinking about the person’s problem and some advice I’ve given a some recent grads that I have worked with. As I see it, the biggest problem a hiring manager has with someone straight out of college [...]
Posted in Apache, Apache Software Foundation, Computers, Lucene, Mahout, Open Source, Programming, Software | 4 Comments »
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Grant’s Grunts » Apple and Developers
As a follow up from this year’s ApacheCon:
I had 30 people in my Lucene Boot Camp training class this time around and I would guess that at least 15 were on Apple laptops (50%, well above the general Apple market share). I also would guess that there were more Mac [...]
Posted in ApacheCon, Apple, Hardware, Leopard (10.5), Linux, OS X, Software | No Comments »
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Facebook invites ads into user profiles – Yahoo! News
Hmmm, I seemed to have missed the part where the people producing all the content that Facebook is capitalizing on get a cut of the ad revenue that is generated from their pages. Why again is this a good thing for Facebook users? Why should I [...]
Posted in AdSense, Ads, Blog, Blogging, Computers, Facebook, Privacy, Software, Web Design | No Comments »
Friday, September 14th, 2007
Microsoft Defends Stealth Windows Updates – Yahoo! News
Solution: Apple.
Posted in Apple, Privacy, Software | No Comments »
Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Anyone know a good, free tool for editing large text files (> 500 MBs)? vi is decent, but not great. Please email me or leave a comment. I have an XML file that is around 1 GB that I need to manipulate, but vi is not really cutting it, and Emacs wants to load the [...]
Posted in Apple, Computers, Software | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Honestly, does writing an email address as “yourname AT example dot com” on a website really prevent anymore spam than writing “yourname@example.com”? Seriously, the regular expression to parse the former isn’t all that much more difficult to write than the latter.
I would suggest that you have to write the address in such a way that [...]
Posted in Computers, Privacy, Programming, Software | No Comments »