Realtime search is the way to go- June 30, 2004 Apples just announced Spotlight their search technology for the desktop. The best feature IMHO is that it searches in realtime. See Spotlight in action here. I'm curious how Apple solved the performance problems associated with realtime search. One problem is that indexing has to be done in background without effecting the user too much. The other problem is that real time search is usally done with the help of a trie datastructure. The whole Trie is usually stored in memory and...http://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/realtime_search_is_the_way Corba, Webservices and ICE- June 29, 2004 Miguel de Icaza talks about Corba, Webservices and ICE . My favourite quote is Web Services were pushed in the same direction that CORBA was used, and it started to get used in places where CORBA was used, and they ended up with pretty much the same thing CORBA had, and sadly without some of the benefits of it. Not a particularly fascinating subject. Fully agreed. He also seems to like ICE very much.http://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/corba_webservices_and_ice Does Eclipse violate a Microsoft patent- June 9, 2004 This June seems to be the month of stupid Software patents granted to Microsoft. After Microsoft got the patent for the double click, they now got one for a to-do list in software-development environments Eclipse does has this feature, actually I seem to remember that it was in there before Eclipse 1.0. Does this now mean that Eclipse has to remove this feature now I really cannot understand why anyone in Europe would want such crappy software patents If this goes on here, I...http://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/does_eclipse_violate_a_microsoft Microsoft tried to takeover SAP- June 7, 2004 The news are spreading Within the last months I thought that Larry Ellison has gotten crazy (more than ever ;) ), but now the bid to takeover Peoplesoft really makes sense. For some personal reasons I'm glad that it didn't happen, but I'm also glad because SAP is a big Java shop. SAP Netweaver Developerstudio has really a lot to offer .http://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/microsoft_tried_to_takeover_sap5 |