05 Jul 2005
Well, I haven’t quite kicked my desire to play more with ruby so I’m planning a little side project using the Odeum bindings.
It’s too late to start tonight but I’ll try to crank something out tomorrow after work.
Ruby/Odeum is a binding to the fantastic QDBM Odeum inverted index library. Odeum is used in the Estraier search engine and is written by the same author. It lets you easily construct a very fast inverted index so you can search for documents by words really quickly. It is released under the same license as QDBM (LGPL). The source includes the minimum source from QDBM needed to use Odeum, so it will work right out of the box.
03 Jul 2005
Mark Cuban has a post reflecting on times past and how future generations will one day be considering 2005 to be the good ole days.
Now if you ask me whats the best console ever made, I’ll probably say the original Nintendo. Try to get to play a nintendo game now (via emulation of course), not a chance. Times have changed and while we all think about the past, very few of us would want to go back. That’s what drives innovation. Like Mark says, the smart ignore the reminiscing about the good ole days and focus on creating unique and improved experiences.
01 Jul 2005
Happy Canada Day
Finished re-reading Effective Java last week so I picked up two new books in Boston. Started reading The Design of Things To Come on the trip back from Cambridge. Pretty good book so far, not directly related to my development work but provides an interesting perspective on areas I’m interested in. Head First Design Patterns also looks good but I haven’t dug into it too much yet.
Not to mention I’m still working through one of the The Pragmatic Programmer books as well. Good thing there’s nothing else to do on a plane but read.
