A second neat trick I did with Lucene this week was to wrap the StandardAnalyzer with my own analyzer (see here for the other post on Lucene I did a few days ago).
The problem I was trying to address is very simple. I have a nice web service API for my search engine. The incoming [...]
I’ve been enthusiastic about openid for a while but have so far not managed to openid enable my site. WP-OpenID, which is the main openid plugin for wordpress is under quite active development. Unfortunately, until recently, any version I tried of that had some issues that prevented me from using it.
The author Will Norris got [...]
Since I spent quite a bit of time looking into how to do this properly so here’s a solution to a little problem that has been nagging me today: how make lucene take into account timestamps when returning search results. I don’t want to sort the results (that’s easy) but instead when two results match [...]
Tagged java, problemsandsolutionsI like to read cartoons. I’m a regular reader of userfriendly.org, dilbert, the wizard of id, fokke en sukke and a few others. I can’t say that I’m a regular reader of Gregorius Nekschot’s cartoons, which cover such topics as multiculturalism, islam, and other rather controversial topics. Good satire can hurt and his cartoons definitely [...]
Tagged PoliticsIt seems the captcha plugin (capcc) I was using with wordpress has been broken for some time. Probably this happened when I installed wp 2.5 a few weeks ago. My friend Christian del Rosso pointed this out. I installed a different plugin now (yacaptcha) which both looks nicer and hopefully works better too.
So if you [...]
Google announced their friend connect yesterday. It’s part of what is a pretty broad, and in my view really smart, strategy that they have been rolling out over the past few months bit by bit. It all started with open social which is their social network API that allows gadget creators to target any social [...]
Tagged google, openid, social networksAfter a few months of doing python development, which to me still feels like a straight jacket. I had some Java coding to do last week and promptly wasted a few hours checking out the latest toys, being:
Eclipse 3.4 M7
Hudson
Findbugs for Hudson
Eclipse 3.4 M7 is the first milestone I’ve tried for the upcoming Eclipse release. [...]
Tagged eclipse, java, osgi, python, reviews, subversionIt still looks butt ugly but at least this bug was partially addressed in the latest beta release of Open Office. The opening date for this one, “Dec 19 19:13:00 +0000 2001″. That’s more than seven years ago! This show stopper has prevented me from writing my thesis, any scientific articles, or in fact anything [...]
Tagged reviews, Software in GeneralAfter my many, not so positive, reviews you might be surprised to learn that I’m actually using it at work now. Last week, a recent Mac convert dumped his ‘old’ laptop on my desk which happened to be a Lenovo T60 with a nice core duo processor, ATI graphics and 2 GB of memory. One [...]
Tagged linux, ubuntuBefore joining Nokia, I worked for a small web startup in the Netherlands called <GX> Creative Online Development during 2004 and 2005. When I started there, I was employee number forty something (I like to think it was 42, but not sure anymore). When I left, they had grown to close to a hundred employees [...]
Tagged gx, Software in General
