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Daily Dose: OpenStack's Cactus Debuts

'Cactus', the third release of OpenStack's open source cloud operating system brings over 40 new features to OpenStack Compute, Object Storage, and Image...

0 replies - 20766 views - 04/18/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Ready made Template for JEE project (EJB+JPA+Hibernte+Richfaces) deployed on Jboss AS 5.1.0.GA

Just today I finished one sample J2EE project which will serve as a ready made template for all who want to use EJB3, JPA, Hibernate and JSF (Richfaces) in...

0 replies - 3811 views - 04/17/11 by Munish Gogna in Announcements

Death by Cloud - How Amazon is Killing Open Source Software

The mood at last week's Open Source Think Tank was surprisingly somber. Two years ago, the open source community was celebrating huge acquisitions such as...

3 replies - 9371 views - 04/14/11 by Chris Keene in News

Daily Dose: Flash Builder 4.5 In the Works

When it is released in May 2011, Adobe's Flash Builder 4.5 will create a single framework for web, desktop and mobile development. New features include special...

2 replies - 15078 views - 04/10/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Making Solr/Lucene 4.x Accessable - Lucid Imagination 1.7 Released

It's been less than a week since the long-awaited GA release of Apache Solr 3.1 and Lucene 3.1.  Well, it seems that Lucid Imagination is already looking...

0 replies - 13522 views - 04/07/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Couchbase Unveils New NoSQL Lineup for Mac OS X Developers

Developers using Mac OS X now have more options.  Couchbase is launching a new version of their Membase Server, and an upgraded version of their Couchbase...

3 replies - 12287 views - 04/05/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Apache Releases Version 3.1.0 of Solr and Lucene

The newest release of Solr and Lucene are ready for action!  Project leaders have changed Solr's version number scheme to mirror Lucene's. Both the Solr...

0 replies - 12399 views - 04/01/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: CDISource Promotes CDI Use

Java Enterprise Edition 6 fans rejoice! CDISource is here. CDISource is a new organization created to promote the use of CDI (JSR 299).  Rick Hightower,...

1 replies - 10255 views - 03/29/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Django 1.3 Makes its Big Debut

The new Python-based web framework, Django 1.3 has been released after nearly a year of ongoing development effort.  Django developers focused on updating a...

1 replies - 15394 views - 03/24/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Local port forwarding

A colleague and I ran into an interesting problem today which we wanted to use local port forwarding to solve. In our environment.rb file we have a Solr...

1 replies - 5417 views - 03/23/11 by Mark Needham in News

Daily Dose: Oracle Wants YOU! (To Help Plan JDK 8)

Oracle's chief architect wants your help planning the next Java toolkit, JDK 8.  Although Oracle's developers have already determined the major features that...

2 replies - 19765 views - 03/22/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Solr Powered ISFDB: Part 1

This is Part 1 in a series of 11 (so far) articles by Chris Hostetter in 2011 on Indexing and Searching the ISFDB.org data using Solr.There are three things...

2 replies - 5221 views - 03/22/11 by Chris Hostetter in News

Lucene Open Source Community Commits to a Future in Search

It has been two years since I commented on an article in Information Week, Open Source, Its Time has Come, Nov. 2008. My main point...

0 replies - 5641 views - 03/21/11 by Lynda Moulton in News

Daily Dose: Couchbase Gets Comfortable With New Couchbase Server

The newly-minted Couchbase has released their first major product, the Couchbase Server.  At this time, the Couchbase Server doesn't have Membase's...

0 replies - 34772 views - 03/21/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Introducing Drizzle: A New, Lightweight Version of MySQL

Drizzle is the latest lightweight fork originating from Oracle's MySQL database.  The Drizzle development team has eliminated all of the features they...

2 replies - 23221 views - 03/17/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose