Preliminary list

A first list of things that I WANT/SHOULD write blog post about (either on this blog, or another, such as my employer's blog).

1. Generating web service client bindings with apache CXF and Maven
2. Generating asynchronous bindings with apache CXF, and using them for asynchronous web service calls
3. Using apache CXF wtih apache camel
4. Developing additional endpoints in apache camel
5. Quick start with apache Camel
6. Feedback on Apache mina
7. Overview of various IR and "big data" tools, specifically: Lucene, Hadoop, HDFS, Map/Reduce, Mahout, Solr, and other related technologies
8. Overview of basic IR techniques, directed at managers
9. Overview of the vector space model, and its role in IR
10. Feedback and technical tips related to Jive SBS
11. Using Hama for scientific graph analysis

Starting up

For background, in case anybody ever looks at this blog besides myself, I am a software engineer (specifically focused on Java/J2EE, but also interested in large scale data analysis and information retrieval in general). This blog is dedicated to some of my technical interests, and occasionally, actual technical details about how to do cool or useful stuff.

I've always had the issue that I think of some idea that I should further develop, some piece of technology that I should learn more about, some bit of code I've worked with that other people might find useful, and so on. Then, an hour later, or a day later, or a week later, I forget about it.

The first purpose of this blog is for me to record my ideas that I want to write about, so I can go back and remember them later. So lets get started...