Monthly Archives: March, 2009
SOLR : very impressive lucene based search tool
Very impressed with Solr and the development community behind it. http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
1.5 days of research, submitted bug and resulting immediate patch and I have a fully functional search engine for a project at work.
If you’ve ever thought it would be nice to have your very own google type appliance, I highly recommend you check out solr [...]
Passing the Turing Test
One of the books I am currently reading is “An Introduction to Neural Networks“. The introductory chapter covered the Turing Test and the fact that no computer has ever come close to passing it. The context of the chapter was about the limitations of the computer to house and efficiently access a db of [...]
Trying out bloggers mobile interface
Adding some message body to see where it ends up.
kindle2 web browser
Very happy with my Kindle2 so far as a book reader. I enjoy reading tech books and my wife uses it for novels.
I’ve started playing with the experimental web browser and have found it to be very useful. As expecting it has trouble with graphics but for mobile oriented sites it has proved [...]
