Monthly Archives: October 2009

ASL (Apple System Log)

I’ve just been debugging a problem with the pulse-agent on a mac. One of the big questions we had was: where the heck are the logs? The pulse-agent is managed by launchd. Apparently, this logs all stdout and stderr via … Continue reading

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Book review: Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server

I was recently offered a review copy of Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server (thanks to Swati Iyer). Whilst this is most fortuitous, I only wish I’d had this a month or two ago, when I was working fairly heavily on … Continue reading

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$WORK =~ s/semantico/google/

A couple of weeks ago, I started at Google. It was time for a change. I’d been at semantico for nine years and had an enormous amount of fun with some excellent people. But I needed to do something different. … Continue reading

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