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The joy of algorithms and NoSQL: a MongoDB example

In one of my previous blog posts, I debated the superficial idea that you should own billions of data records before you are eligible to use NoSQL/Big Data...

0 replies - 13536 views - 08/16/11 by Davy Suvee in News

The perfect search engine in three easy steps

If you own the site, or you are the person responsible for any service, with should have search engine, this entry tells you how to easily and quickly ...

0 replies - 5655 views - 08/15/11 by Rafał Kuć in News

The 7 Deadly Sins of Solr

This is a slideshow from Lucene Revolution 2011.  It covers in-depth each of these seven deadly "sins" when developing a Solr...

0 replies - 3220 views - 07/26/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Whitepapers

Give back to the community (please?)

Last week, I was ticked off by the behavior of a colleague: he complained the duplicated code panel in Sonar was not explicite enough. When I remarked he...

8 replies - 4618 views - 07/11/11 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles

Open-source developers deserve respect

I was recently reading Gojko Adzic's blog post called How is it even possible for code to be this bad? I must admit that I was very sad to see tremendous...

5 replies - 4144 views - 06/29/11 by Sandro Mancuso in Articles

Installable Vagrant Boxes

We distribute vagrantbox to people demo-ing our project. It is a hassle to install the whole setup for non-IT people The following is a proof of concept to...

0 replies - 7527 views - 06/20/11 by Patrick Debois in News

Trends from the Eclipse Community Survey 2011

We have just published the 2011 edition of our Open Source Developer Report, the results of our Eclipse Community Survey.  I always enjoy going through the...

1 replies - 4631 views - 06/10/11 by Ian Skerrett in Articles

A Snapshot of What Matters to The Eclipse Community.

The Eclipse Foundation has released the results of the annual Eclipse Community Survey. The fact that the survey is annual provides the opportunity to spot...

0 replies - 5282 views - 06/10/11 by James Sugrue in Articles

Puppet Homebrew Package Provider

I've become a big fan of homebrew package system on Macosx. I moved away from macports because it allows me to easily change the way packages are compiled:...

1 replies - 7265 views - 06/07/11 by Patrick Debois in News

Vagrant Testing, Testing, One Two

Now that we have Vagrant up and running with our favorite Config Management, let's see how we can integrate testing into our...

0 replies - 9761 views - 06/03/11 by Patrick Debois in News

Federated Search: Setting User Expectations

In the past few months, it is rare that I am briefed on an enterprise search product without a claim to provide "federated search." Having worked...

0 replies - 5537 views - 05/27/11 by Lynda Moulton in News

Using Vagrant as a Team

This blogpost goes into detail how on we leverage Vagrant, an open source  tool for building and distributing virtualized development...

0 replies - 13898 views - 05/25/11 by Patrick Debois in News

Daily Dose: Release of MeeGo 1.2

The much anticipated release of MeeGo 1.2 has officially been announced this week! MeeGo 1.2's OS is home to several reference kernels, including those for the...

0 replies - 22065 views - 05/19/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: LinkedIn Goes Public!

LinkedIn, the popular social networking site for professionals, is going public! Selling at $45 per share, the 7.84 million shares total to an amazing $352.8...

0 replies - 24144 views - 05/18/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Scripps Networks finds a fit Case Study

HP storage solution meets growing need for media asset management Scripps Networks needed to store, manage, and process graphics, video, and still imagery in...

0 replies - 4788 views - 05/18/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers