I majored in physics in college, not software engineering. For that reason, I felt kind of intimidated by formally-trained programmers for a long time. Even though I was working as a professional programmer (albeit in Macromedia Director, the predecessor to Flash) I didn’t know what business rules were, or Extreme Programming, or anything that the [...]
A few days ago I accidentally found out about “Google Instant“, in which the moment you start typing, Google starts showing you results based on a guess of what you’re looking for. Which is, I have to admit, pretty darned cool, and I’ve added creating that kind of functionality to the “potential tutorial” list on [...]
Wow, it wasn’t until I imported all my old posts that I realized it’s been four years since I updated my blog. Considering that I used to be quite regular about it, that’s quite a gap! I promise to be better about it now. But now I get to go back and see what’s [...]
As promised, this site is on its way back up in conjunction with this week’s upcoming webcast, From RDBMS to Apache Solr /Lucene – Open Source Search for database developers.
