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Daily Dose - Java Contracts: By Google

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...

1 replies - 27455 views - 02/06/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Tuning Solr in Near Real Time Search environments

Gustavo Fernades, Senior Open Source Consultant at Sourcesense UK, recently did a talk detailing six Solr tuning tips that can help significantly reduce...

0 replies - 11741 views - 02/03/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Apache Solr: Get Started, Get Excited!

We've all seen them on various websites.  Crappy search utilities.  They are a constant reminder that search is not something you should take lightly...

2 replies - 61544 views - 01/25/11 by Peter ___ in Articles

Flexible Indexing: Coming in Lucene 4.0

Flexible indexing is one of the new features in Lucene's next major release, 4.0. It includes big changes to a number of places in Lucene: a new, higher...

0 replies - 8781 views - 01/19/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Enterprise Applications Made Easy With JVx

JVx is an enterprise application framework allowing developers to create database applications using a single sourcing approach. Taking the convention over...

0 replies - 5334 views - 01/19/11 by James Sugrue in Articles

The Apache Lucene Ecosystem: My View of 2010

After a week off to enjoy time with my family, I thought I would kick off the last week of 2010 with a look back at the year as it relates to...

1 replies - 6600 views - 01/18/11 by Grant Ingersoll in News

Daily Dose - Will NetBeans Have to Remove JUnit?

NetBeans Platform Architect Jaroslav Tulach recently posted some surprising news on the JUnit Yahoo Group.  "We have new lawyers," he said, and...

0 replies - 18644 views - 01/18/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Indexing JSON in Solr 3.1

Solr has been able to produce JSON results for a long time, by adding wt=json to any query. A new capability has recently been added to allow indexing in...

0 replies - 10921 views - 01/13/11 by Yonik Seeley in Articles

Daily Dose - Hudson Renamed "Jenkins" as Oracle Clings to Naming Rights

You may recall the controversy that surfaced in December over the naming rights and trademarks surrounding the open source continuous integration engine,...

1 replies - 20867 views - 01/12/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Cassandra 0.7 Complete

A new version of Apache Cassandra is available today.  New features include large row support (up to two billion columns per row), secondary indexes, and...

0 replies - 18014 views - 01/11/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Firefox: Europe's New #1 Browser

Less than a year after Microsoft was forced to provide that "browser ballot" on setup (for Europe only), their browser (Internet Explorer) has lost...

0 replies - 21673 views - 01/05/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - What's New in Emacs 24?

As the nightly builds for Emacs 24 start to churn out, developers can expect some cool new features.  These features include UI changes, custom themes,...

0 replies - 27274 views - 01/03/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Realtime Search With Lucene at Twitter

Presented by Michael Busch, Search Engineer, Twitter Abstract: Lucene has for a while already a nice feature that we call "Near-realtime search"...

0 replies - 12237 views - 01/01/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

JBoss AS 6 Release Rings in a Happy New Year!

Under development for more than a year after Java EE 6 was approved by the JCP, the JBoss Application Server 6.0 is now production ready.  The GA release...

0 replies - 12221 views - 12/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Open Source: Not Everyone Is A Winner

Like most Java developers, I wouldn't have gotten very far without the help of open source software. The variety of tools and frameworks available is an...

9 replies - 6987 views - 12/23/10 by James Sugrue in Articles