August 2009
6 posts
“…if you’re only interested in building power, you’re going to...”
– Michael Lopp [Managing Humans]
“The love of a man for the integrity of his work and his right to preserve it are...”
– Howard Roark [The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand]
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Lucene and the App Engine Datastore, They Play...
As it turns out, most of my troubles to date with getting Lucene to save “files” to the datastore have actually not been troubles with the datastore interaction at all. The problem was in fact more basic, I was saving the “file” in Lucene’s pre-commit phase and not in it’s actual-commit phase. This caused me all kinds of craziness because I could tell the Array...
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Super Fast JavaScript Array Processing →
Why Quicksilver? WHY?!
I really like Quicksilver. It is one of those applications I wonder how people can be on a Mac and not utilize it. While it has been out of active development for a while now I still find it eminently useful. However, I do have to re-launch at least once a day because it tends to have it’s catalogs get confuzzled and the only way I can find to un-confuzzle it is to relaunch it. I recognize...
Lucene Directory Implementation for Google...
For the last week and a half or so I’ve been spending free time working on an App Engine project in Scala. A fairly large portion of the concept is the ability to search through submitted data. The App Engine being a Google product I assumed before I started search would be no big deal. As it turns out there is no good way I can find in the low-level Datastore API to perform a text search on...