Solr + Hibernate
Solr is good software. Hibernate is good software, and with Hibernate Search it uses Lucene for full text search. It’s possible to configure Solr to use arbitrary Lucene indexes. I think it would be...
View ArticleThe Napster (Grockster?) of Facebook
IANAL, but how can Audibie possibly be legal? Since the doctrine of inducement appeared (ref Grockster) I can’t see how the DCMA safe-harbor provisions would save them. Perhaps they are relying on the...
View ArticlePredictions for 2008
So it turns out that it’s 2008 and the thing to do is to do predictions for the next year. Here’s my 2: Facebook will have a huge leak of personal private information. It will turn out to be due to...
View ArticleMissing the real story on Ning statistics
Last week there was a bit of news traffic about some of the content that is on Ning. Whatever… I think the really interesting story to come from those Quantcast stats (if you trust them) is the Share...
View ArticleRandom stuff
It’s Friday afternoon, so here’s some random stuff: We live across the road from a park, and most Saturday mornings some guy rides his bike there to do Yoga. He also brings his pet chicken to the park...
View ArticlePodcasted
Does it make sense to say that I got podcasted? Anyway, I did – or at least I had a good conversation when my network connection didn’t drop out. I haven’t listened to it yet – not sure I enjoy...
View ArticleThe (s|S)emantic (w|W)eb
“The semantic web is the future of the web and always will be” Peter Norvig, speaking at YCombinator Startup School I’m sick of Semantic Web hype from people who don’t understand what they are talking...
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Webdesign
For the last I’ve been doing webdesign (yeah, that actual visual UI stuff, not just AJAX or something) at work, and – remakably – for the first time since 1997 (yes – 1997!) I’ve enjoyed it. Generally...
View ArticleRandom MP3 metadata code
I’ve been doing random MP3 metadata work lately. Here’s some code which others might find useful. Extracting MP3 tags from mp3 file hosted on server using HTTP Range queries. So I was using Apache Tika...
View ArticleFixing Firefox performance and lock-ups on Linux
I’ve been using Ubuntu (8.04 then 8.10) reasonably heavily over the last 12 months or so as my main operating system on two of my home computers (a Dell Mini 9″ and a quad core desktop). I’ve been...
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