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Chris Hostetter: Lucene / Solr 3.6 released
Lucene / Solr 3.6 has been released and is available for download. As release manager, here’s my take on the new features: Language analysis: Newly added morphological analysis and part-of-speech...
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Chris Hostetter: What is Big Data? More importantly, what is Big Data not?
I’ve been in a lot of customer meetings lately as well as meeting with high tech press and analysts and all everyone wants to talk about is BIG DATA (arguably one of the biggest technology paradigm...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-04-12
Graft punk: Breaking the law to help urban trees bear fruit : This is brilliant. I find it pretty offensive that “ornamental” fruit trees are chosen by urban councils, so that fruit doesn’t fall on...
View ArticleSam Ruby: Wunderbar now does Sinatra
W Demo The result is a lot like Markaby, except you get to be/have to be explicit when you are creating a tag. In this demo, there is no logic, so the benefits of doing so are less clear, but include...
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Bryan Pendleton: The Battle of Pittsburg Landing
I never learned my Civil War history very well, but I did notice that this week was the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Pittsburg Landing.The Wikipedia article sums the 3-day event up as follows:The...
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Nick Kew: Whatspot?
I guess once wifi hotspots became a strategy for big telcos, it was only a matter of time before they reached us here. And so this week it has come to pass: two new unprotected wifi access points...
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Rob Davies: What to look out for at CamelOne
The open source integration event - CamelOne, which is being hosted by FuseSource, is only a month away - and the agenda is coming together to provide so really interesting talks. If you haven't...
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James Duncan: Dunes
Dunes near the border of Qatar and Saudi Arabia Posted by James Duncan Davidson.
View ArticleJasha Joachimsthal: Automated testing with JBehave
What do developers like most? Build new software! What do developers hate most? Testing and writing documentation! Why would you write tests? It slows down your process of making new software. If you...
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James Duncan: Crane Detail
Detail of a crane and a building under construction in Doha, Qatar Posted by James Duncan Davidson.
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Sagara Gunathunga: How to use Axis2 WSDL2JAVA with proxy authentication
Securing WSDL using basic authentication is a common practice for number of enterprise web service providers. Also in some business domains it's required to secure various WSDL URLs among business...
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James Duncan: Fish Market on Al Corniche
While waiting for museums to open up a few mornings ago, Kris Krüg and I were wandering about and stumbled into an open air fish market on Al Corniche just southeast of the Museum of Islamic Art. The...
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James Duncan: The Museum of Islamic Art
Designed by I. M. Pei as his self-described last major cultural building, the Museum of Islamic Art sits on its own man made island built by the Emir just off Al Corniche in Doha. One of the most...
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Chris Hostetter: Memory comparisons between Solr 3x and trunk
Or, “Trunk can use about 1/3 of the memory required by 3.x” Please note that these tests were created with an eye toward emphasizing the differences. For instance, I chose to sort on strings since I...
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Chris Hostetter: Dates, date boosting, and NOW
More NOW evil Prompted by a subtle issue a client raised, I was thinking about date boosting. According to the Wiki, a good way to bost by date is by something like the following:...
View ArticleDavid N. Welton: Mr. Blank, we're outside the building, and we want eBooks!
Steve Blank is known for his teachings on the Silicon Valley type of entrepreneurship, with his ideas forming the basis for the "lean startup movement" amongst other things. He writes frequently on...
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Bryan Pendleton: For your weekend reading
I don't want you to be bored this weekend, so I thought I'd pass along some articles you might find interesting. If not, hopefully you still won't be bored this weekend :)Hell Phone: Is there any way...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-04-13
Ask For Forgiveness Programming – Or How We’ll Program 1000 Cores : Nifty concept from IBM Research’s David Ungar — “race-and-repair”. Simply put, allow lock-free lossy/inconsistent calculation, and...
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Mukul Gandhi: XSD 1.1 is now a W3C standard
I've been looking forward (and I hope many others as well) to have the XSD 1.1 language to become a W3C recommendation (REC). XSD 1.1 did become a REC on 5th April 2012. This was a big big wait for the...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-14
Best Crêpes and galettes in Cornwall! (@ Larssons Coffee House) http://t.co/PcHCupfx # Powered by Twitter Tools
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