Now as jetwick stabilizes again here are some Java tweets which are easy to collect also for other topics like lucene (see below), netbeans etc: Search for the term you are interested in. If you want to make sure jetwick collects all results from one week: login and save your search. Then select the first … Continue reading »
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Important Java Tweets of the last week, 20th September
My last summary cries for another week: here you have the latest news and fun tweets. Fun johl | @twitter “Java is to Javascript as ham is to hamster.” sebsto | @twitter JavaONE 2010 : Oracle and Java taking different directions ? LOL http://yfrog.com/614tzj #oow10 #javaone #java #fun mkneissl | @twitter while (java.version < 7) … Continue reading »
Important Java Tweets of the last Week
First, a funny news from twitter.com/geekgay: Feliz Dia Do Programador! http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dia_do_Programador. Look at this wikipedia link to understand the tweet. News twitter.com/nodissasemble Cloudant releases Java based view server for CouchDB http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/09/cloudant-couc… #infoq twitter.com/fireon Про патентні особливості .NET і Java http://www.infoq.com/articles/java-dotnet-patents twitter.com/migueldeicaza Article on Java and .NET patents from InfoQ, an informed piece for a change: … Continue reading »
My Thoughts About Instant Search
You might have noticed that google is rolling out its instant search feature. Although the hype is over I am writing here and now my thoughts about this old news enhanced with some background information gained through jetwick. First, a screenshot of google instant in action: (Click to Zoom) This search is called ‘search before … Continue reading »
Bad News: Earthquake in New Zealand (via Twitter)
If you live in New Zealand or have friends there, I really hope no one was damaged! Twitter made me aware that there was an earthquake. A quick search in my twitter search prototype jetwick shows where it happened: (The auto-suggestions were implemented with wicket’s autocomplete and a nice trick in solr.)
Re: Firefox add-ons you should consider
This is a short blog post triggered by this post from Jonathan Giles. It is more a list of plugins I consider than what others should consider. But hopefully at least one plugin of interests is in the list. Feel free to comment, add your own favplug. With All-in-One Sidebar you will have fast access … Continue reading »
Stack Overflow sites: Reputation calculation changed
Read here for more. For me this was only a 100 rep downgrade. The major problem is that I cannot login with wordpress-openid anymore: Unable to log in with your OpenID provider: No OpenID endpoint found.
Kenai.com Will be Closed
I read on the German heise portal that Kenai is the ‘loser’ of Oracle’s Sun-acquisition. On the project’s blog you can read this in English: Part of this process is the phasing out of the public-facing domain used for the Project Kenai Beta site. It is a pitty, because of the effort for the great … Continue reading »
Shame on Sourceforge?
Sourceforge restricts access from some more ‘evil’ countries. Read more here. This violates Open Source Initiative: “5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.” And if the license must not restrict this, the distributor shouldn’t as well! Its free software and not US software! … Continue reading »
Change Subersion Format: From 1.5 to 1.6
The latest changes in ubuntu will force you to update the local subversion repository. Use used the following on a 1.5 repository and it works: ~/change-svn-wc-format.py . 1.6 Make sure that all clients then use 1.6! Downgrading from 1.6 to 1.5 should be possible, too.
