Recently, Oracle withdrew the ability for Linux distributions to repackage Java and distribute their own packages. This has been widely regarded as a bad idea, but I'll show you how to re-roll an old sun-java6 deb file.
0 replies - 2402 views - 02/05/12 by Tom O'connor in Articles
…run it on a high port
This seems like obvious advice but I see it so often ignored…. Yes,
putting ssh on another port is obscurity – but it freaking works. It
doesn’t prevent someone from cracking your password via ssh, you should
have other...
2 replies - 3435 views - 01/08/12 by Aaron Nichols in Articles
I love shortcuts. I do my best to learn keyboard shortcuts, I setup
aliases, and I like using anything that makes things faster. Here are a
few of my favorites for a shell in Linux or OS X. These aren’t ninja
shell moves that folks who’ve been doing...
1 replies - 5829 views - 01/07/12 by Aaron Nichols in Articles
While working on deploying a web-application
recently, I needed to transfer a 'build artifact' (fancy name for a
.tgz) from a Continuous Integration server to an RPM repository server.
We already have an existing RPM repository server that uses Apache,
and...
0 replies - 2689 views - 01/02/12 by Nikhil Mungel in Articles
(Warning some Ubuntu ranting ahead) apt-get install virtualbox-ose
apt-get install rubygems
gem install vagrantThat's what I assumed it would take me to install vagrant on a spare Ubuntu (Natty) laptop.
Well it's not. after that I was greeted...
0 replies - 2265 views - 01/01/12 by Kris Buytaert in Articles
While it's certainly no reason to declare the death of CouchDB, Canonical's recent decision to drop CouchDB as their data store for Ubuntu One is a pretty significant loss coming from a service provider that was definitely a big notch in the CouchDB...
0 replies - 3131 views - 11/29/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
In this how-to we are presenting the steps you have to follow in order to install Tomcat 7 and Solr on a Centos 5.5 machine. This tutorial was originally posted on TechSpry.com and the author is Gerasimos Athanasopoulos.
2 replies - 4064 views - 10/24/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
I found a short and sweet blog tutorial by Lucene/Solr committer Mark Millar this morning. It shows you how to install Solr as a service on Linux in less than 300 words (and just a few small code snippets). The example uses Ubuntu 11.04.Logging
0 replies - 4193 views - 08/13/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
A few weeks ago I committed the new MemoryCodec to Lucene's trunk (to be 4.0). This codec indexes all terms and postings into a compact finite-state transducer (FST) and then, at search time, avoids I/O by performing all terms and postings enumerations in...
1 replies - 3472 views - 07/23/11 by Michael Mccandless in News
The Linux kernel developer mailing list featured a message from Linus
Torvalds which suggested that he will most likely complete merging
major changes for the next version of Linux derived from the main
development tree on Sunday.
Torvalds got people...
0 replies - 19854 views - 05/24/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
SlickEdit 2011 is the premier cross-platform, multi-language code
editor that gives programmers the ability to code in over 40 languages
on 9 platforms including Windows®, Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X®. New features and enhancements available in SlickEdit...
0 replies - 1586 views - 05/18/11 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Announcements
Contracted code in Java can reveal failures much closer to their fault, shaving hours off your debugging sessions. It's good news then that Google has just made it easier to implement contracts in Java with the launch of their new open source tool:...
1 replies - 23835 views - 02/06/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Apache Tomcat has full support for Java EE 6 specs this week, including Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, and JSP EL. The developers just announced that the new release of Tomcat 7.0.6 is the first stable release in the 7.x branch. The other new features in this...
0 replies - 12920 views - 01/17/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Today, the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace recorded more than 5k applications in the store, which is just above the number in Palm's WebOS app store. While the WebOS store has had 1.5 years to mature, WP7 has taken less than three months to reach 5k. The app...
0 replies - 21997 views - 12/31/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
At Microsoft's developer-focused Silverlight Firestarter event, they laid out the roadmap for the next version of Silverlight - an RIA platform that is now taking a slightly different direction. Silverlight 5 will include more than 40 new features such as...
0 replies - 15001 views - 12/06/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
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