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Michael McCandless: Lucene's TokenStreams are actually graphs!
Lucene's TokenStreamclass produces the sequence of tokens to be indexed for a document's fields. The API is an iterator: you call incrementToken to advance to the next token, and then query specific...
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Bryan Pendleton: Ubuntu 12.04
I appear to have successfully upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04. Nothing special to report, so far, all has been fine. I've got at least 3 other machines to upgrade, so I may have more experiences to report...
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Chris Pepper: Isilon Notes, 2012 Edition
General Isilon provides templates for Nagios, which you should use. Unfortunately Nagios cannot distinguish serious problems (failed disk) from trivia (quota violations & bogus warnings). Hardware...
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Matt Raible: Bus Project Update
I bought my '66 21-window VW Bus way back in April of 2004. I purchased it on eBay minutes after DU Won the National Championship in NCAA Hockey. It was a day I still remember very well. Several weeks...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-04-30
On The Record: Forging a future for the music industry : The original article is now paywalled, but the comments thread contains a fantastic discussion between some very smart young, and old,...
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Yoav Shapira: Red Sox - Yankees 100th anniversary game
On April 20th I went to the Red Sox - Yankees baseball game, which was also celebrating the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park. It was a beautiful sunny spring day, a great afternoon to spend with some...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Dear United Airlines
Dear United, As you know, our relationship has never been about mutual attraction or even pleasure in companionship. It’s been about reliability, predictability, and deep understanding and acceptance...
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James Duncan: The Power of X
A bit over a week ago, over 700 people wrapped up an incredible week at TEDxSummit, a gathering of TEDx organizers from all over the world who came together to share, inspire, and educate each other. A...
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Isabel Drost: Traveling to Berlin in June? Note the airport changes!
If you are planning to travel to Berlin in June – e.g. to attend Berlin Buzzwords – note that there is a major change to airports happening on June 2nd: Saturday, June 2nd will be the last day, both...
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Edward J. Yoon: History of the Apache Hama
Little hippo is now a monster. ;D Hama graduation is currently being voted[1]. 1. http://markmail.org/thread/ehmzrwbn5oijfhxz
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Sagara Gunathunga: Axis2 clustering on Tomcat
In this post I will discuss how to setup a Axis2 cluster using two Tomcat servers. It's not my intention to describe Axis2 cluster architecture or cluster configuration language, if you need such...
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Nick Kew: Whither FTP?
I recently installed an update of a software package running on an Amazon EC2 host. In the configure step I found there was an unsatisfied dependency: it wanted ossp-uuid, which was not available on...
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Bryan Pendleton: NSDI 12
Usenix continues its streak of running the most interesting and relevant conferences. This time it's NSDI 2012, the 9th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, that was held...
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Rich Bowen: What's Doofenschmirtz up to?
The story so far:Can hardly wait for tomorrow.
View ArticleRich Bowen: Is there in fact a science to SEO?
I just got email from O'Reilly, including a book on SEO.I frequently find myself criticizing SEO practices, because they are so often snake oil.While I acknowledge that there is a science to writing...
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Bryan Pendleton: Microsoft C++ OMFG
Hey, all you people who design and implement programming languages, listen up for a second! If you find yourself building a feature in your programming language that necessitates the production of...
View ArticleCommunity Over Code: Thank you, Apache Sponsors!
I just wanted to take time to say thank you to the many financial Sponsors of the ASF. “Thank you, Apache Sponsors!“ Our many regular Sponsors pledge to donate a set amount of funds to the ASF...
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Adrian Sutton: Go Faster By Not Working
We all know by now that continuous integration is part of good software development – check in regularly and have a suite of automated tests run to confirm that everything is working as expected. If a...
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Ian Boston: PyOAE renamed DjOAE
I’ve been talking to several folks since my last post on PyOAE and it has become clear that the name doesn’t convey the right message. The questions often center around the production usage of a native...
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