Code quality is a dial too
This article is a preview of my January 22nd talk at Charlottesvilles Neon Guild where Ill be talking about my experiences with rapid prototyping. If youre local, Id love…
Backing up Virtual Machines in VirtualBox
And now to the fun subject of virtual machine images! My computer blue screened the other day. So I got fairly paranoid. This is the second time in a…
Real-time Doctest Checking In Vim
Vim is a terrific editor. The one thing that kills me though is “the cycle”–the cycle of going from Vim to the console to try out what I just…
Making Ubuntu 12.04 not crawl in Virtualbox
So I’ve got a new hooptie laptop (a pimped out Sager NP9170). Since I’m pretty much changing everything about my career, I thought I’d stick to one thing staying…
Switching Jobs – Damn The Torpedoes
Hi! Im Doug Turnbull, the new guy. Im really excited to be joining Open Source Connections. Ive been seeing first hand how capable my new colleagues are and am…
Thinking about Solr 4 Book Update
Im just starting to think about updating the book Solr Enterprise Search Server that David Smiley and I co-authored for Solr 4 now that it is very close to…
CodeFloat 2012 “by the numbers”
For the past year Ive been talking with Christopher Ball and Erik Hatcher about how frustrating it is to have to carve time out of our regular day jobs…
Interning and Solr
Welcome to the first blog post (of many, hopefully) by OpenSource Connections’ 2012 summer interns. After our first few weeks as interns at OSC, we have begun to get…
LuceneRevolution 2012 Recap
I went to LuceneRevolution to test out my assertion that Search is the dominant metaphor for working with Big Data and based on the conversations that I had, that…
The Failure of Search at FedBizOpps
The United States government procures most of its goods and services through competitive bidding. The notices of its requirements are posted on a centralized website called FedBizOpps, www.fbo.gov. Contracting…
HIMSS HealthIT Wrapup
After a couple of exhausting days at HIMSS last week, where I was overwhelmed both by being a first time visitor to the glitz of Las Vegas and the…
An Introduction to Results Utility Positioning
When a user enters in a search query and is taken to a search engine results page, then the probability of clicking on a result is a function of…