The burdens of innovation

Having just come back from ApacheCon, my brain feels "full". "Full" like your belly after Thanksgiving dinner except instead of blood rushing to your belly to digest my food, blood is rushing to my brain to digest the delicious meal I had. I had high expectations for ApacheCon. I can say that they were met and the some.

At this point, I'm at a loss as to what we should be doing next. (There's too much to do!) Add to the laundry list of fixes and user improvements on our list... pages of innovations that (after seeing the amazing things they can do ) we HAVE to implement. We have thousands of documents in a repository. We HAVE to implement Solr. We have disparate repositories. We HAVE to implement ManifoldCF. And so on and so on.

At least that's how I feel after seeing the presentations at ApacheCon. I feel like farmers must have felt when they saw the plow for the first time. "Are you kidding me? I can do that?"

Leaving Apache Con

Decided while I was in #YVR to pick this up again. ApacheCon 2011 was a huge success IMHO.

Using the various content indexing and crawling frameworks I expect we'll be able to see a huge performance increase for our employees. Our document repositories are a mess. Unorganized, disparate, and unused. Providing a search portal to index and serve up content is going to be a huge boon...

Thank you ASF!