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title: links for 2007-05-13
date: 2007-05-13T05:24:59Z
modified: 2007-05-13T05:24:59Z
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  - Links
timestamp: 2007-05-13T05:24:59Z
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  - Links
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- [Luis Villa’s Blog / donedonedonedone](http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/05/11/donedonedonedone/#comment-20580)
    
    congrats to Luis: one down, sir – enjoy the summer w/ RHAT
    
    (tags: [LuisVilla](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/LuisVilla) [law](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/law) [school](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/school) [RHAT](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/RHAT) [Columbia](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Columbia))
- [Welcome to Solr](http://lucene.apache.org/solr/)
    
    “Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs…caching, replication, and a web administration interface. It runs in a Java servlet container such as Tomcat.”
    
    (tags: [Solr](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Solr) [Lucene](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Lucene) [Java](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Java) [enterprise](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/enterprise) [search](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/search) [via:Joshua](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:Joshua))
- [Sam Ruby: JCP Member of the Year](http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/05/11/JCP-Member-of-the-Year)
    
    lots of solidarity around the Apache folks
    
    (tags: [Apache](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Apache) [JCP](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/JCP) [SamRuby](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/SamRuby))
- [First impressions of Mercurial (as an alternative to subversion) – Peter Krantz](http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/to-mercurial-from-cvs/#comment-1944)
    
    just what it says
    
    (tags: [Mercuiral](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Mercuiral) [Hg](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Hg) [Subversion](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Subversion) [DSCM](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/DSCM) [sourcecodemanagement](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/sourcecodemanagement))
- [Tales of the Racoon Fink: One Door Closes…](http://www.racoonfink.com/archives/000717.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=one_door_closes)
    
    “If you know of anything interesting for a Perl/Java/Mac/Open-Source/Geek kind of person, let me know.” – Benjamin’s looking – someone should hit him up, particularly if you’re RDU based
    
    (tags: [BenjaminReed](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/BenjaminReed) [developer](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/developer) [available](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/available))
- [Open Sources | InfoWorld | The MySQL factor | May 10, 2007 08:11 PM | By Matt Asay](http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/05/the_mysql_facto.html)
    
    “We…spent a fair amount of time talking about the people at MySQL…Zack…was pretty open about the nature of the people with whom he works. He didn’t say this, but the description I inferred from the conversation was ‘confident but humble.’ “
    
    (tags: [culture](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/culture) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [management](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/management) [MySQL](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/MySQL) [hiring](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/hiring) [humility](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/humility) [confidence](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/confidence))
- [Hot to Trot – MLB – Yahoo! Sports](http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=ArI1T25gCeBVvh0ML3nC0hURvLYF?slug=ti-indians051107&prov=yhoo&type=lgns)
    
    “Nixon is part-deity in Boston because of that very trait, playing his spine and knees into goo before surrendering a single breath…, in front of those people who’d become his friends, beside those teammates who’d become closer than that.”
    
    (tags: [TrotNixon](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/TrotNixon) [RedSox](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/RedSox) [baseball](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/baseball))
- [Sorry, I don’t support Dell PCs at Churbuck.com](http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/?p=1173)
    
    another classic “support” story
    
    (tags: [humor](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/humor) [DavidChurbuck](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/DavidChurbuck) [support](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/support) [Lenovo](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Lenovo) [Dell](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Dell))