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Using Solr Cloud, For Real!

Loggly is a cloud based logging service. It helps you collect, index, and store all your log data with the help of Solr

Maven: Great Idea, Poor Implementation

Has Maven lived up to its promises? You decide after reading Kief Morris' 3 part review of Maven.

Setting Custom Wallpaper with Android

Wallpapers are a nice way to customize your homescreen. There are many applications that allow you to change your wallpaper and they have huge databases with...

0 replies - 622 views - 01/27/12 by Mark Mooibroek in Articles

Morphological Analysis and Named Entity Recognition in Lucene/Solr

This talk will show how the relevance of search results can be improved by using morphological analysis and named entity recognition. After briefly...

0 replies - 1020 views - 01/27/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos

Persistance Options with Redis

Most people thinking of Redis, think of it is an in-memory datastore. This is totally true. However, there is a lot of misconception with the “in memory”...

0 replies - 1169 views - 01/27/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

Removing the Need for a Menu Button on Android

To many, the inclusion of a menu button on Android phones is a bit messy. After all, the usability of iOS devices is spot on without this function. It makes me...

2 replies - 986 views - 01/27/12 by James Sugrue in Articles

Mocking with JodaTime's DateTime and Google Guava's Supplier

If you're a seasoned unit tester, you've learned to take note when you see any code working with time, concurrency, random, persistence and disc I/O.

3 replies - 1325 views - 01/27/12 by Mike Ensor in Articles

Java Thread Affinity support for hyper threading

A benefit of hyper-threading is the ability to support more threads without incurring the overhead of context switches. If your threads spend a high...

0 replies - 1131 views - 01/27/12 by Peter Lawrey in Articles

Book Review: JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by Example

Although Oracle's changes to JavaFX at JavaOne 2010 and JavaOne 2011 have converted me from a skeptic to a

0 replies - 772 views - 01/27/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

Spring 3 and Apache Commons JCS Exception

I’ve seen a couple of projects in the last few months that have needed to cache data between requests. The developers, not wanting to write their own...

1 replies - 1006 views - 01/27/12 by Roger Hughes in Articles

Arquillian with NetBeans, GlassFish embedded, JPA and a MySQL Datasource

This is an, let's call it accidental post. I was looking into transactional CDI observers and playing around with GlassFish embedded to run some integration...

1 replies - 913 views - 01/27/12 by Markus Eisele in Articles

Cool Visualization of Etsy's Chef Repo 2010-2011

Etsy used Gource, a software version control visualization tool to map Chef Repo. Software projects are displayed by Gource as an animated tree with the root...

0 replies - 1823 views - 01/26/12 by Christopher Smith in Videos

Is Programming Less Exciting Today?

As discriminatory as this is going to sound, this one is for the old-timers. If you started programming after the turn of the milennium, I don’t know if...

13 replies - 5663 views - 01/26/12 by Ted Neward in Articles

Scala Dynamo - a Scala (and Java!) API for Amazon’s DynamoDB

Last week saw the announcement of Amazon Web Services NoSQL database as a service, Dynamo. Dynamo has a number of very interesting features, not least that...

0 replies - 1856 views - 01/26/12 by Wille Faler in Articles

Graphite, JMXTrans, Ganglia, Logster, Collectd, say what?

Given that @patrickdebois is working on improving data collection I thought it would be a good idea to describe the setup I currently have hacked...

0 replies - 1628 views - 01/26/12 by Kris Buytaert in Articles

Solr at Etsy

Search at Etsy poses significant challenges. Our marketplace is filled with millions of unique, short-lived items and people trying to find them over 10...

0 replies - 2153 views - 01/26/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos