Compass 0.9 : Getting my bearings

Apr

18

2006

I just caught an announcement that Compass 0.9 was released. Not knowing what Compass actually was, I ventured over to the OpenSympony site. Compass is a first class open source Java Search Engine Framework, enabling the power of Search Engine semantics to your application stack decoratively. Built on top of the amazing Lucene Search Engine, ...
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Open Source Software

Google Calendar : wow!

Apr

13

2006

Well, the much anticipated (to me at least) Google Calendar went live today. My first impression, Wow! As expected it has a dead simple user interface and I was able to import my exported calendars (from Outlook) with no problems. It schedules daily tasks with a simple click-drag, and multi-day/repeatable events are a simple property ...
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General Discussions

Finally getting to go to JavaOne!

Apr

11

2006

I’ve wanted to go to JavaOne for a number of years now but the opportunity has never presented itself. It looks like that’s going to change this year as somehow I’ve convinced my employer that it’d be in both of our best interests to send me. I’ve transitioning into more of a technical lead role ...
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Developing in Windows, 3 weeks in.

Apr

11

2006

So it’s been ~3 weeks since I switched my primary development environment from Ubuntu to Windows. I wasn’t sure how it would turn out (been a Linux user for the better part of the past 12 years), but I’ve actually been quite happy. All my tools (Eclipse, JRockit, ant, svn, etc.) worked pretty much out ...
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Java

Canary Foundation Announces $1 Million Gift to BC Cancer Foundation

Apr

5

2006

I had the pleasure today of listening to Don Listwin, CEO of the Canary Foundation (former CEO of Openwave Systems and senior executive at Cisco), announce a $1 million grant to the BC Cancer Foundation to help aid in the early detection of cancer (with ovarian cancer being the initial platform). Along with the gift ...
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My Amazon.com Interview Experience 4

Apr

2

2006

It’s been a month or so since it wrapped out so I figured it’s about time to write a blog about it. It all started a few weeks before Christmas with an email from an Amazon.com recruiter inquiring as to my availability to come to an interviewing session in Vancouver, BC (I live in Victoria ...
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