Comments for Tony's Place

Comment on Snow removal in Montgomery County Maryland by Doug

Doug — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:05:22 +0000

Does anyone have a list of companies that do snow removal/plowing for residential clients? I am trying to find companies that will bid for our entire community.

Comment on Setting up Sunspot/Solr for OR queries, stemming and lower memory usage by Jakub Godawa

Jakub Godawa — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:59:50 +0000

Thanks a lot man… I was just about to build 10 dismaxes for 10 different languages. This saved me a lot of work as a user experience after all is not so bad

Comment on Setting up Sunspot/Solr for OR queries, stemming and lower memory usage by Tony Primerano

Tony Primerano — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:58:55 +0000

Hey John, It has been a while since I wrote this so I don’t recall where I got all the information. I suspect it was a combination of reading the code, posting to a listserv (or 2) and a bit of googling.

I’m glad I posted my notes as several folks seem to be benefiting from them.

Comment on Setting up Sunspot/Solr for OR queries, stemming and lower memory usage by John Wang

John Wang — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:31:22 +0000

Amazing. Just the two things I’ve been scouring the web for. Where do you go to find this stuff? I can’t find a good API reference anywhere.

Comment on Setting up Sunspot/Solr for OR queries, stemming and lower memory usage by Kirk Quesnelle

Kirk Quesnelle — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:55:29 +0000

Wow Thank you very very much for this!

Comment on Simple logic problems from interviews by Tony Primerano

Tony Primerano — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:45:22 +0000

I suspect it was the same company They have a nice view but no metro access, I found it an odd spot for a startup.

Comment on Simple logic problems from interviews by Richard Bullington-McGuire

Richard Bullington-McGuire — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:38:02 +0000

It can’t be a coincidence that I was asked these three exact questions in the same order even at an interview at a DC area software product company recently.

Comment on Setting up Sunspot/Solr for OR queries, stemming and lower memory usage by Tomas

Tomas — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:18:21 +0000

Hello, thank you for this article. I wanted OR in query too without success. This article helped me.

Comment on Why I chose The Rackspace Cloud over AWS by Akshay Arabolu

Akshay Arabolu — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:00:59 +0000

Hi Tony,

Just came across this comparison of yours between Rackspace and AWS. I know its dated but its a great article. Wanted to know if you’d like to update this post and feature it on getcomparisons.com? A project we’ve started to house all the best product comparisons on the web under one roof. You can back-link to this original article of course. Check it out, and if you’re interested, I will send you an invite.

Cheers,
Akshay Arabolu, Founder

Comment on Converting Ceiling Fan light from Intermediate(E17) to Medium base so you can use CFLs by Matt

Matt — Wed, 25 May 2011 21:10:54 +0000

I love the government and their infinite wisdom, especially dealing with energy savings. One more reason to replace your bases this way instead of a converter: the converters fit between the base and the bulb, sometimes not allowing the original covering to fit over the bulb(s). This is usually found when a glass dome is placed under the bulbs.