Blog

Welcome to the blog section of my site.

This is where I write about stuff.

Posts

Feb 10, 2024
Brewing Success: Making the Most of Annual Reviews
Jan 9, 2024
Hiring For Growth: Tips for Engineering Managers
Jun 25, 2022
Building a Recipe App on Vultr's Platform
Apr 15, 2019
Building a Yacht Rock Song Title Generator
Feb 12, 2017
Building a Sentiment Ticker with Raspberry Pi and NLTK
Jul 25, 2016
Recovering a Fully Replicated SolrCloud Node After Data Loss
Mar 13, 2016
Solrcloudpy 1.8 Released
Feb 19, 2016
Deep Learning on Long-Form UGC at Scale
Sep 25, 2015
Getting All Distinct Values From Solr
Jun 5, 2014
Analyzing CoreNLP XML Output with Python
May 30, 2014
eXist-db: Not Ready for High Scale
May 22, 2014
The Unpublished Master's -- The Role of Frequency in Historical Change
May 20, 2014
Dynamic Data Science: Iterating Fast in the Cloud
May 16, 2014
Using NLP at High Scale for Recommendations
Feb 7, 2014
What I've Been Up To Lately
Jun 7, 2013
My Solr Video Series 60% Off on Packt Publishing
May 21, 2013
Slowlr: Slow Query Logging for Solr
Apr 11, 2013
Introducing ZendeskBundle, a Symfony2 bundle for the Zendesk REST API
Mar 26, 2013
PyCon != Donglegate
Mar 19, 2013
My PyCon 2013 Presentation Video Online Now
Mar 17, 2013
A PyCon for the Books!
Mar 13, 2013
MediaTakeOut Headline Generator Now a Bot
Jan 31, 2013
Upgrade to Solr 4.1 and Save Space
Jan 17, 2013
My Intro to Solr Video Series Out Now on Packt Publishing!
Dec 5, 2012
MediaTakeOut Headline Generator to Be Showcased at PyCon 2013
Oct 20, 2012
Wikia is now on GitHub!
Oct 16, 2012
MediaWiki Platform Development: More than Wikipedia
Sep 26, 2012
Daps: Advanced-release LDAP support for Symfony2
Aug 29, 2012
LikeBuster for Firefox Out Now
Jul 20, 2012
Introducing LikeBuster
May 15, 2012
Just Keep Learning
May 10, 2012
Search V2 Now Live on Wikia!
Apr 30, 2012
MTO ON BLAST: A language model for a gossip blog
Apr 11, 2012
The English Language: A Fractal of Bad Design
Apr 5, 2012
Search Haters Gonna Hate?
Jan 25, 2012
What I'm Up To Lately
Sep 28, 2011
SLA-Driven Development
Sep 2, 2011
Novel Methodologies for Distributed Development Teams
Jul 16, 2011
The Highlighter Incident
Jun 1, 2011
Future-Proof Your Database Change Log
Jan 27, 2011
A Command Line Function for Posting to Pastebin
Jan 14, 2011
Moving to Git: How to wrap up your SVN project
Dec 11, 2010
Integrating MAMP with VMWare Fusion without an Internal DNS
Oct 21, 2010
A short public service announcement on variable variables in PHP: Do the dumb thing first.
Oct 12, 2010
Site redesign!
Sep 21, 2010
The Many Faces of a QA Specialist
Sep 16, 2010
Big News!
Aug 21, 2010
Passed the MySQL CMA Exam!
Aug 20, 2010
Studying for the CMA
Aug 18, 2010
Blog Inauguration!
Jul 23, 2010
Face_Service_Face, a just-for-fun ZF-style implementation of the Face.com API
Jul 16, 2010
Partial vs. Helper in the Zend Framework: When to use which?
Jun 29, 2010
Stack Overflow Fatigue?
Jun 16, 2010
Now with double the certifications
May 28, 2010
Overhaul of Offers.com includes move to faster search
Apr 28, 2010
Migrating to Apache Solr from Zend_Search_Lucene
Mar 30, 2010
Rediska and Sesh: Minimizing RAM usage in your session.
Mar 17, 2010
How Tools Affect Tools: The adoption of writing systems and computers
Mar 15, 2010
MRG Utils: Revisiting some old code
Mar 3, 2010
Zend_Search_Lucene Tips