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Solly Ezekiel — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 16:37:24 -0000

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 Welcome to the Sui Generis Wiki!  Here you will find assorted documentation, including...

-* A [Quick Start Guide]
-* A [User Guide]
-* A [Programming Guide]
-* A [Feature Wish List]
+* Current [Project Status]
+* The [Quick Start Guide]
+* The [User Guide]
+* The [Programming Guide]
+* The [Feature Wish List]
 * Assorted [Trivia]

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Solly Ezekiel — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:29:31 -0000

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 * A [Quick Start Guide]
 * A [User Guide]
 * A [Programming Guide]
+* A [Feature Wish List]
 * Assorted [Trivia]

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Solly Ezekiel — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:19:53 -0000

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 * A [Quick Start Guide]
 * A [User Guide]
+* A [Programming Guide]
 * Assorted [Trivia]

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Solly Ezekiel — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:18:43 -0000

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 * A [Quick Start Guide]
 * A [User Guide]
-* [Trivia]
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-# Quick-Start Guide
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-TBD
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-# User Guide
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-TBD
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-# FAQ
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-## Why?
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-Several reasons, really.  Most importantly, I needed an application to manage all my duplicate pictures :-).  But there were other reasons:
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-  * It's a way of giving back to the open-source community, which has helped me a great deal with all sorts of useful software.
-  * It has given me an opportunity to learn a bunch of new tools I wouldn't use at work, such as [JSPF](https://code.google.com/p/jspf/), [JIMFS](https://github.com/google/jimfs), [Mockito](https://code.google.com/p/mockito/), [FileDrop](http://iharder.sourceforge.net/current/java/filedrop/), [Java internationalization](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/), and so forth.
-  * It's a chance for me to do the best job I can on a piece of software.  I write software for a living, and most of the time, I get to work on a piece of software only until it just meets the requirements, and then it's time to move on.  Of course I understand that this is necessary, yet it always leaves me wishing I could have done just a little more.  So on this project, I get to polish all I want and take as much pride in the finished product as I like.  So there!
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-## So who is she?
-
-The woman in the Sui Generis logo is Venus from Sandro Botticelli's unforgettable painting [The Birth of Venus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus_%28Botticelli%29).  *Sui Generis* translates, more or less, into "one of a kind," and so for the logo I wanted something that symbolized that.  And what better to symbolize uniqueness than a famous piece of art?  I could have chosen any famous painting, sculpture, or whatnot, but *The Birth of Venus* has a special meaning for me.  Many years ago I was traveling through Florence and visited the Uffizi Museum, where the painting is displayed.  When I saw the painting with my own eyes I was dumbstruck -- the gold of her hair, the vibrant blue of the ocean, and the general aspect of seeing the painting for myself was breathtaking.  I have never seen a reproduction that remotely captures the beauty of the original.  They all seem so bland by comparison.  The original is stunning.  For the next ten or twenty minutes I just sat in that gallery, watching the reactions of visitors as they saw the painting for the first time.  They all reacted as I had done -- all conversation ceased and they just stood there, mute, as they took in the beauty before them.  I'll never forget it.
+* Assorted [Trivia]

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Solly Ezekiel — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:15:44 -0000

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 * A [Quick Start Guide]
 * A [User Guide]
-* A FAQ
+* [Trivia]

 [TOC]

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Solly Ezekiel — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:14:55 -0000

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 Welcome to the Sui Generis Wiki!  Here you will find assorted documentation, including...

-* A [QuickStart] guide
+* A [Quick Start Guide]
 * A [User Guide]
 * A FAQ

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Solly Ezekiel — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:14:08 -0000

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 Welcome to the Sui Generis Wiki!  Here you will find assorted documentation, including...

 * A [QuickStart] guide
-* A UserGuide
+* A [User Guide]
 * A FAQ

 [TOC]

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Solly Ezekiel — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:12:35 -0000

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 Welcome to the Sui Generis Wiki!  Here you will find assorted documentation, including...

-* A QuickStart guide
+* A [QuickStart] guide
 * A UserGuide
 * A FAQ

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Solly Ezekiel — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:11:27 -0000

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 [[img src=sui-generis-header.png alt="Sui Generis Header"]]
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+Welcome to the Sui Generis Wiki!  Here you will find assorted documentation, including...
+
+* A QuickStart guide
+* A UserGuide
+* A FAQ

 [TOC]

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Solly Ezekiel — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:07:44 -0000

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   * It has given me an opportunity to learn a bunch of new tools I wouldn't use at work, such as [JSPF](https://code.google.com/p/jspf/), [JIMFS](https://github.com/google/jimfs), [Mockito](https://code.google.com/p/mockito/), [FileDrop](http://iharder.sourceforge.net/current/java/filedrop/), [Java internationalization](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/), and so forth.
   * It's a chance for me to do the best job I can on a piece of software.  I write software for a living, and most of the time, I get to work on a piece of software only until it just meets the requirements, and then it's time to move on.  Of course I understand that this is necessary, yet it always leaves me wishing I could have done just a little more.  So on this project, I get to polish all I want and take as much pride in the finished product as I like.  So there!

-## Who is the chick?
+## So who is she?

 The woman in the Sui Generis logo is Venus from Sandro Botticelli's unforgettable painting [The Birth of Venus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus_%28Botticelli%29).  *Sui Generis* translates, more or less, into "one of a kind," and so for the logo I wanted something that symbolized that.  And what better to symbolize uniqueness than a famous piece of art?  I could have chosen any famous painting, sculpture, or whatnot, but *The Birth of Venus* has a special meaning for me.  Many years ago I was traveling through Florence and visited the Uffizi Museum, where the painting is displayed.  When I saw the painting with my own eyes I was dumbstruck -- the gold of her hair, the vibrant blue of the ocean, and the general aspect of seeing the painting for myself was breathtaking.  I have never seen a reproduction that remotely captures the beauty of the original.  They all seem so bland by comparison.  The original is stunning.  For the next ten or twenty minutes I just sat in that gallery, watching the reactions of visitors as they saw the painting for the first time.  They all reacted as I had done -- all conversation ceased and they just stood there, mute, as they took in the beauty before them.  I'll never forget it.