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Hibernate Search

Just read about this new product from JBoss – looks very interesting.

Quoting from the JBoss newsletter:

“Hibernate Search provides full text search (Google-like) capabilities to Hibernate domain model objects. Based on Apache Lucene, it has an emphasis on ease of use and configuration, lowering the barrier to entry of Lucene and its integration with a domain model. Hibernate Search has a deep set of features, including transparent object indexing, natural API/persistence context integration to Hibernate and the JPA query model, and an out-of-the-box asynchronous clustering mode.”

Here is a link to the documentation.

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“Hibernate Search indexes your domain model with the help of a few annotations, takes care of database/index synchronization and brings back regular managed objects from free text queries.”

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To Linux, or not to Linux?

Among the many exciting new challenges facing me at my new job is making a decision about which operating system to use on my new desktop machine.

For years I’ve been using Windows for development, but many of my respected colleagues made the switch to Linux years ago, and only use Windows if forced to by their evil corporate overlords.

Using Linux in many software engineering shops has become a kind of “badge of honor”. At my new job, I have been offered the choice, but I’ve noticed that most of the engineers use (Ubuntu) Linux, and I heard our sysadmin joke about “batting for the other team” in reference to using Windows. Yet for some reason we still use Microsoft Exchange, ActiveDirectory, Office, etc., and of course our web apps have to run on Internet Explorer. The Linux diehards Remote Desktop into a Windows box to test their code on IE, presumably at the very end of their dev cycle.

Like most software companies, we use Linux for our servers, so using Linux on the desktop makes it easy to share files with those servers. On the other hand, there are some very nice file sharing solutions for Windows,  such as SFTPDrive (http://www.sftpdrive.com/).

As for applications, nearly all of the good, free apps that run on Linux also run on Windows.

Then there are some great tools that only run on Windows, such as EditPlus (a really nice, lightweight text editor), Yahoo Instant Messenger (with Yahoo Music support and nice email notifications), and TortoiseSVN (a great Subversion client that works as a Windows Shell extension). I spent several hours today looking for a good, free PHP IDE for Linux; so far all of the ones I’ve tried either didn’t work out of the box (e.g. Eclipse PHP plugin) or lacked features I really want. If I’m going to end up buying something anyway, the whole “something for nothing” allure of Linux starts to fade pretty quickly.
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Another annoyance is there are several competing version of Linux out there, and not all “Linux” software is available for all of them. In many cases you have to compile applications from the source to get them to work.

Don’t get me wrong – I think Linux is fantastic, and I’m really impressed by how far it has come over the years, especially considering the fact that most of the development is done by folks who apparently do it for free (perhaps motivated by a desire for fame in the software community, plus a chance to “stick it to the Man”). If I were starting a company, I would seriously consider not spending any money at all on Windows.

However, after a long day of putzing around with my Linux box, I’m already feeling the urge to return to the “dark side”. Anyone care to talk me out of it?

P.S. I use Mac OS X for my home machine, and I LOVE it.

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New Year, New Job

Yesterday I formally accepted a new job at [company name deleted]. My first day will be 10/1.

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God’s Playing Field

Yesterday, my 10-year-old son proudly showed me a game he had found on the Internet recently:

http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Gods-Playing-Field.html

My boy seems to think this game is hilarious. I find it pretty disturbing, and I have a pretty high threshold for such things. Clever parody of God is one thing (a la Monty Python), but this is outright sadistic and the message – that God is stupid, cruel and malicious – is deeply disturbing and not something I am comfortable with at all being aimed at my kids.

It feels awkward writing those words because as a card-carrying “liberal” and as a “post-denominational”, open-minded Jew, I generally feel it’s OK to question to anything and everything. This game however crosses a line for me, enough so that I wrote the following letter to the folks that run the site:

“I’d like to suggest you remove the games “God’s Playing Field” and “God’s Playing Field 2″ from your site. These games are not appropriate for children, and your site clearly is targetted squarely at kids. My kids love the games on your site and I would like to let them access your site, but if you don’t remove these inappropriate games I will have to block your site.”

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