Hibernate at Jazoon’07

I will be at Jazoon (Zurich) to talk about Hibernate Search on Tuesday. I’ll hang around Monday and Tuesday, so feel free to pass by the JBoss booth for a chat. [...]

Hibernate Search – cool, but is it the right approach? Year baby!

Sanjiv Jivan wrote a blog entry questioning the “point” of Hibernate Search. He missed some critical steps in his argumentation, that I am willing to correct. I started to answer on his blog, but the answer being fairly long, I opted for a blog entry.I think Sanjiv failed to understand which population Hibernate Search … [...]

Got a MacBook (Pro), better consider this upgrade

Last night my battery and my MacBook Pro decided not to talk to each other anymore. The battery was full but as soon as I unplugged the AC, the laptop shut down immediately, fairly useless ;-) Have a look at Apple’s support case MacBook Battery Update.This patch apparently prevent the synchronization failure to happen, saving … [...]

From a Bug blooms a thousand Features

When a severe bug hits a product, you have to fix and release quickly (at least I feel I have to). But, especially in the beta phase, it’s fairly humiliating to release with one single ticket resolution.Call it pride, pair pressure, ego, unwillingness to face reality, teenager knee jerk, I just can’t release a … [...]

Hibernate Search freshly baked features

I had to release Hibernate Search Beta3 early after we discovered a fairly severe bug in Beta2. But I had time to inject some new features. After those introduced in Beta2, that a fairly good week :) batch size limit on object indexingIf you don’t pay attention when initially indexing (or reindexing) your data, you … [...]