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Yoav Shapira: Book review: "Invasive Procedures"
I saw Invasive Procedures at the airport store and bought it right away because of its author, Orson Scott Card. Card is the author of Ender's Game, one of my favorite sci-fi novels ever. Ender's...
View ArticleSimon Willnauer: Enterprise Search: Introduction to Solr
From day one, we at JTeam were very much occupied with pushing new revolutionary open source technologies that can bring real value to us and to our customers. We were there when Spring just started...
View ArticleSimon Willnauer: A look back at 2010
A year has passed and it's time to reflect. Quite a bit has happened at 2010... some things that bothered me and others that inspired me. I thought it would be a cool exercise to try and list some of...
View ArticleSimon Willnauer: Lucene / Solr and deep paging
On the solr-user mailing list I’ve seen several questions about the performance impact when retrieving results from pages that are well beyond the first few results. This is also known as deep paging....
View ArticleSimon Willnauer: Introduction to Apache Tika
Apache Tika is a toolkit for parsing and extracting metadata and structured content from various document formats. Tika does not attempt to reinvent the wheel by implementing their own parsers but...
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Grant Ingersoll: Taming Text Update
Drew, Tom and I are feverishly working away on finishing up Taming Text. We are currently in the process of addressing the feedback we got from our final review and should have updates up soon. I...
View ArticleJean-Baptiste Onofré: Coming in Karaf 3.0: new KAR service, command, management
We are working hard on Karaf 3.0. This major new version of Karaf will bring a lot of new features and enhancements. KAR in Karaf 2.2.4 As you may know, Karaf 2.2.x already provides “basic” KAR...
View ArticleDavid N. Welton: 2011 in Books
Since I got my Kindle a bit more than a year ago, I have finally been able to slake my thirst for reading materials, something that was prohibitively expensive when ordering English language books via...
View ArticleBrian McCallister: Some Atlas Thoughts
Back in June (that long ago, really? wow!) I first talked about Atlas and my, time has flown. While originally created to help address a very specific problem we were facing at work, the general...
View ArticleOrtwin Glück: [Updates] Upgraded from x86 to x86_64
Yesterday I have upgraded my 2006 MacBook Pro from 32 to 64 bit Gentoo. It went notably smooth. This was the ONLY reinstall in five years. Here the full beauty of Gentoo shows: smooth upgrades from a...
View ArticleChris Hostetter: Why Not AND, OR, And NOT?
The following is written with Solr users in mind, but the principles apply to Lucene users as well. I really dislike the so called “Boolean Operators” (“AND”, “OR”, and “NOT”) and generally discourage...
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Bryan Pendleton: Prince of Persia: still alive after 25 years!
I've been having fun looking through the notes put together by "mrsid", a programmer who took up the challenge of re-implementing the classic Apple II game "Prince of Persia", by reverse-engineering a...
View ArticleRich Bowen: Open Source and The Cloud
I had something of an epiphany in the shower this morning. I discovered that I actually agreed with Brad Kuhn about something.TLDR: Is "the cloud" a treat to Open Source? I stopped working on an Open...
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Isabel Drost: #28c3
Restate my assumptions. One: Mathematics is the language of nature. Two: Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. Three: If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: Adding "Ajax Throbbers" to Zone updates
A common desire in Tapestry is for Zone updates to automatically include a throbber (or "spinner") displayed while the Ajax update is in process. This is, unfortunately, a space where the built-in...
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Ted Leung: 2011 in Photography
I’ve been dreading writing the photography roundup post this year, because I haven’t taken a lot of photographs. I’ve only a few months worth of photographs on Flickr, which makes a month by month...
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Carlos Sanchez: Como enviar un coche de USA a España
Después de vivir unos años en Los Angeles decidí llevarme conmigo el coche de vuelta a España, tras valorar los distintos gastos y el precio de venta del coche en Estados Unidos y España parecía que me...
View ArticleIgor Galić: Crazy in Love
A friend of mine asked me a question which he considers me qualified enough to answer (i.e.: Crazy) This article is PG rated.
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Claus Ibsen: An introduction to Apache Camel - Blog Series
Recently on twitter I noticed some tweets about Apache Camel, which covers getting started with Apache Camel. So far there are three blogs, and there are more coming. If you want to get more familiar...
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Sergey Beryozkin: Jettison 1.3.1 has been released
Jettison 1.3.1 has just been released, please the Download page for more information about the latest fixes.The two updates which would be of interest to CXF users (or those who rely on other stacks...
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