Craig’s Musings

Since reading Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking and The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, I’ve been looking forward to Malcolm Gladwell’s next book. Outliers: The Story of Success didn’t disappoint, and I recommend reading it yourself.
As the book’s title suggests, Gladwell’s text is about success and outliers; however, [...]

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Now that Michael has publicly posted the official news in the Confluence wiki for Omea and in the newsgroups (i.e. coyly here via a three-part post featuring Esperanto and Alice in Wonderland), I want to also draw attention to this important open source event: http://svn.jetbrains.org/omeaopen.
I caught word of this milestone coming via Jeff Loftus. Serge [...]

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If your engineering team is like mine, it’s geographically distributed. Chances are that English is not everyone’s first language either. (To be clear, if you compare my Russian, Chinese or Indian to “their” English, I’m the one that comes up short!) So, I’ve been trying to determine an automated way to spell check Java-based source [...]

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From: Craig RandallSent: 5/30/2007 7:45:19 PMNewsgroups: jetbrains.omniamea.eap, jetbrains.omea.reader, jetbrains.omea.pro, jetbrains.omea.devSubject: When will the source finally become open for Omea?
Omea Team-
Many months ago Jetbrains announced that Omea was going open source. However, to date the source is still entirely closed. There has been very little explanation about the lack of follow-through (timely or otherwise) concerning progress [...]

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Earlier today JetBrains Omea Development Lead, Michael Gerasimov, made it public and official: “After collecting your opinions and having long internal discussions, we have finally decided to move both Omea Reader and Omea Pro into the open source domain.” Michael had alerted me to this excellent news privately before the newsgroup-based announcement, but once again [...]

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