May 2, 2011

My son Jake Kaplan takes historic pic last night

I was out late last night when I get a text from my son “We got bin laden!”. “What” I replied. Then the scope of the historic moment started to take hold.  Shortly after that Jake snapped...

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April 24, 2011

AWS Regions and Availability Zones – good explanation

Here is a really good explanation of AWS regions and Availability Zones by Justinsb.  Of course this was the big news of the week. The week the cloud went down. Just started doing some...

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April 24, 2011

Fascinating Software Engineering story from contributors to Lucene

I’m working with a system right now that uses Lucene. Here is a fascinating story of the implementation of the new FuzzyQuery speedup search for Lucene 4.0.  Nice to see deep complicated research...

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April 15, 2011

HTML5 Reset Project

I watched this Big Web show 5by5.tv last night. They had Tim Murtaugh on talking about his various very interesting Web projects. I downloaded his HTML5 Reset project and had a look. Great stuff....

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