November 2007
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Mono 1.2.6 Memory Usage
So, I’ve heard a lot of hype about the upcoming 1.2.6 release of Mono being faster, leaner, and more stable then ever before (due largely to Novell’s acquisition of a QA team dedicated to Mono). Beagle has always gotten flack over memory use, and as a result, we are relentless in our hunt for abused [...]
Google Docs Presentations: A Major Disappointment
Google Docs has revolutionized the office suite, namely the word processor. Collaboration is easy, smooth, integrated, and automatic, whats more all your documents are accessible from anywhere, and all the common features I need are present. While I don’t really use spreadsheets very often, my few simple instances of using Google Doc’s for spreadsheets were [...]
Google: How do you do it?
So its not a big surprise that an oft-requested feature for Beagle is the ability to index a users Gmail messages (like Google Desktop Search). Today we (the Beagle developers) started to investigate just how this is done. While POP3 (and now IMAP) are available, downloading all of a users mail, indexing it, and then [...]