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 [...]
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 [...]
Also tagged problemsandsolutionsAfter 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. [...]
Also tagged eclipse, osgi, python, reviews, subversionBelow is a position paper I submitted to the upcoming Dagstuhl seminar I am attending. It’s not peer reviewed and it is not clear at this point if there will be any proceedings. So, as an experiment, I will just put the full text in a blog post as well as the pdf you can [...]
Also tagged Academic, eclipse, linux, nokia, smart space, Software Engineering, ubuntuI’ve just started uploading my new photo site. It’s 150 MB so that is going to take some time. It should be back up in about two hours (I hope). Basically one of the changes is that I’m now using rsync for this as well and no longer rely on clumsy ftp. The big advantage [...]
Also tagged photographyI’m looking into doing a little cryptographic stuff in python. Nothing fancy, just some standard stuff. Not for the first time I’m bumping into this brick wall of “batteries included”, the notion that the python library comes with a lot of stuff that should be good enough for whatever you need to do. Only problem [...]
Also tagged google, python, webdevelopmentUpdate: a slightly updated version of this article has been published on the Javalobby weekly news letter and on the javalobby site itself after Matthew Schmidt invited me to do so.
Update 2: The serverside has linked here as well. Readers coming from there, the version on Javalobby linked above is the latest and also has [...]
It seems infoq picked up some stuff from a comment I left on the serverside about one of my pet topics (Server side Java).
The infoq article also mentions that I work at Nokia. I indeed work for Nokia Research Center and it’s a great place to work. Only they do require me to point [...]
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ONJava.com — Schemaless Java-XML Data Binding with VTD-XML
Looks quite nice. Of course you can do the same with xpath and a w3c DOM. Beats xml binding libraries I’ve seen. It’s still tedious that you have to write code of course but less tedious than having to maintain a schema just so you can generate code.
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