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Why We Expect Fast Websites: The Drooling Dog and You (Part I)

By now everyone is familiar with the mantra ‘web performance and customer satisfaction/revenue generation go hand in hand.’ End users now expect fast...

0 replies - 3273 views - 09/16/12 by Mehdi Daoudi in Articles

Domain Modeling with OWL - Part 1

What is the Semantic Web? The term Semantic Web refers to a set of standards for the formal representation of knowledge on a computer. Knowledge...

0 replies - 4279 views - 09/03/12 by Borislav Iordanov in Articles

Linklist: Spring / HTML5 / FLEX

FLEX for Spring...

0 replies - 4078 views - 08/27/12 by Tim Spann in Articles

Is The Web Really Just Links Or Is It Evolving?

Lately, Dave Winer has been doing a lot of thinking. Dave has been around for a while, so when he starts thinking about interesting questions, we should...

1 replies - 8022 views - 08/21/12 by Robert Diana in Articles

Confessions of a Meego Fanboy

Much has been written about the emerging Post-PC era, about the new possibilities it brings, and the limitations it imposes on developer creativity. For...

0 replies - 4496 views - 07/15/12 by Henri Bergius in Articles

Search is Not Enough: Using Solr for Analytics

We've got our first video recording out of Lucene Revolution 2012.  This year was even bigger than the previous two, with even more focus on massive data...

1 replies - 4918 views - 05/21/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Android Special Effects: Alpha Animation

An Alpha Animation is animation that controls the alpha level of an object, i.e. fading it  in and out. In Android, you can apply that fading effect to almost...

0 replies - 5178 views - 05/06/12 by Tony Siciliani in Articles

The Dimentions of Search UX

Or “Why Google Instant will (and won’t) change the way we search” Google Instant has caused considerable debate within the search community. Some...

0 replies - 5026 views - 04/19/12 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles

6-Step Lucene Multi-Point Spatial Search Algorithm

This post describes a method of augmenting the lucene-spatial contrib package to support multi-point searches. It is quite similar to the method described...

0 replies - 4130 views - 04/17/12 by Kelvin Tan in Articles

The Shift Towards Client-Side MVC

A change is happening in the enterprise application development industry.  It's a change away from logic on the server side, and towards logic on the client...

2 replies - 8581 views - 04/12/12 by Paul Hammant in Articles

Designing Search (part 3): Keeping on track

Part 1In the previous post we looked at techniques to help us create and articulate more effective queries. From auto-complete for lookup tasks to auto-suggest...

0 replies - 3755 views - 04/12/12 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles

Designing Faceted Search: Getting the Basics Right (Part 1)

1. Introduction Over the last couple of weeks we’ve looked at some of the more advanced design issues in faceted search, including the strengths and...

0 replies - 6837 views - 04/06/12 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles

Using JIRA's REST API to Create a Dashboard

If you read this blog often, you'll know that I am: crazy about APIsliving with some accessibility issues Put these two things together and what do you get? ...

0 replies - 3880 views - 03/27/12 by Lorna Mitchell in Articles

Search at the Guardian Newspaper

Search at the Guardian NewspaperI had the privilege of attending a Search at the Guardian event a while back, organised by Tyler Tate of...

1 replies - 3495 views - 03/14/12 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles

Designing Search Experience: Icon Grammar

One of the things I’ve been thinking about recently is the concept of ‘search modes’, i.e. the notion that certain types of information-seeking...

1 replies - 4220 views - 02/17/12 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles