January 28th
Welcome to 2012 people!
Apparently I forgot how to write blog posts at some point last year, and so this is going to be a news roundup with special events since my last post.
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April 30th
We just got back the final reviews from Tika in Action and I'm compiling the final actions and responses to those comments.
A long journey is nearing its end!
March 23rd
Hey all, just a quick Tika in Action MEAP update. Chapters 9 and 10 are now available. Chapters 12 and 15 have been submitted to the publisher. 14 should be done this week, and hopefully 11...
January 4th
So, NASA just put out its press release regarding Apache OODT . The ASF one is soon to follow and now Information Week has just posted an article about OODT as well .
Thanks to...
December 15th
Welp, like I just posted on my Facebook , I've finally pushed Chapter 8 of Tika in Action out the door.
Should be coming to a MEAP near you sometime soon!
November 21st
It's official . NASA now has its first Top Level Apache Project : OODT !
On Wednesday, November 17, 2010, the Apache board passed the OODT TLP resolution by unanimous decision.
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Just had a great conversation with the Manning folks and I was told I can offer Tika in Action , the book I'm writing, at 50% off!
Just use the code tika50 when you check out and...
October 9th
Meet the new Pagemewhen.com Cluster:
Now upgraded to:
1.1 TB total disk
18 GB RAM
23 cores of 2.0 Ghz CPU
7 physical nodes
Time to install,...
August 28th
So it's been a while since I last blogged, but I figured there was something noteworthy to talk about today, so here I am.
I found out yesterday that I was elevated to IEEE Senior Membership...
April 4th
I just cut the Apache Tika 0.7 release .
You can go grab it from one of the Apache download mirrors .
Of note, per the recent discussions on the mailing list , Tika is now going to be...
Wow. So, I received an email the other day asking me if I accepted membership within the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) . For a long time, I've been a participant, as a committer, as someone...
January 31st
Check out Apache Tika 0.6 . It's hot off the presses and contains even more goodies for mime type detection and content analysis than before. And it's got 30% more Apache goodness than the...
January 22nd
It's official. NASA has its first sorta official Apache project!
At this stage, Apache's official policy is to not do official PR announcing the project (we are kind of at step 2 in...
December 31st
So, lately, I've been pretty involved in Spatial SOLR . I'm just scratching the surface of trying to understand this stuff. There was an interesting plugin though posted recently by Mat Brown...
I announced a while back that Tika 0.5 is available for downloading. Get it while it's hot . Notable changes include moving to a source only release this time, improved RDF and OWL parsing and...
24-13, over Boston College . They weren't super impressive, but USC got it done. We'll take the win and hopefully ride it into some BCS-level success next year. Fight on guys!
Look, even...
December 7th
I'm not sure why I'm even bothering posting.
Have fun in the Emerald Bowl , USC .
Sigh.
November 15th
Not much to say, except:
Stanford, you are classless.
Harbaugh, you are classless.
USC defense, you suck.
USC offense (yes, you Barkley), you suck.
Joe McKnight, you rule.
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August 29th
The more and more meetings I've attended recently including some at major US funding institutions have included debates between two factions of people:
Those that would group...
August 16th
I had the privilege of being the release manager for yet another Apache Tika release - 0.4 is out the door and has a number of major improvements over prior releases, including a major...
