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Mitch Pronschinske05/22/12
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CloudStock: Mini-Hacks and Videos

The Cloud Zone is presented by DZone and Microsoft. Let our tutorials, design patterns, and news guide you through the maze of constantly increasing cloud solutions.  Microsoft has a host of tools to let you deploy Node.js, PHP, and Java apps on their Windows Azure platform.

The free CloudStock 2012 event in London is wrapping up today. If you weren't able to attend, here's what you missed...

Mitch Pronschinske05/21/12
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Automata Invasion: Finite-State Technology in Lucene

Here's another great presentation from the just-finished Lucene Revolution 2012 with Robert Muir of Lucid Imagination and Michael Mccandless (a DZone MVB) from IBM.

Mitch Pronschinske05/21/12
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Hadoop MapReducers in .NET - Making C# and VB First Class Citizens in Hadoop

Why would anyone want to build Hadoop MapReducers in .NET? For one, Hadoop is a Java tool and JNBridge thinks they've found a way to make .NET a first class citizen by using their .NET to Java interop technology.

Mitch Pronschinske05/21/12
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Search is Not Enough: Using Solr for Analytics

Steve Kearns will discuss and demonstrate how the combination of structured data, text analytics on unstructured data, and Solr can be used to power advanced analytics applications at scale.

Mitch Pronschinske05/18/12
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Learn What Platforms Can Do For You: Mini-Hacks

Quinton Wall currently does Ruby development on Heroku, iOS programming, and defines blueprints for Social Enterprise applications. We had the chance to interview him before the conference and here is what he had to say...

Mitch Pronschinske05/18/12
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Real-Time Data: What To Do With It

I had a chance to talk with Alex Toussaint this month and ask him about some of the things he's working on. He comes from a Java background with experience in many major tech companies, as well as small startups.

Mitch Pronschinske05/17/12
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High Availability Plugin for Jenkins Enterprise

 CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, announced at the Jenkins User Conference in New York City today new high availability functionality now available within Jenkins Enterprise by CloudBees. Enhancements included in the...

Mitch Pronschinske05/14/12
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ActiveMQ and ServiceMix Achieve New Heights

Looks like after around a month of public beta, Fuse ESB Enterprise and Fuse MQ 7.0 have both been made generally available today according to a new announcement out of the CamelOne Conference.

Mitch Pronschinske05/14/12
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OSGi vs. Jigsaw: Kirk Knoernschild on Modularity

Kirk Knoernschild is one of the leading experts when it comes to the OSGi community. DZone recently had a chance ot interview him about his thoughts on modularity in 2012 and his new book is "Java Application Architecture: Modularity Patterns with Examples Using OSGi."

Mitch Pronschinske05/12/12
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Hadoop, Mahout, R and Lucene/Solr on One Cloud Platform

Some more cool news has come out of this week's Lucene Revolution conference related to their theme of 'Solr's not just for search, it's for analytics. In addition to their Solr-as-a-Service cloud search platform, which is basically LucidWorks Enterprise on the cloud, Lucid Imagination has now announced the beta release of LucidWorks Big Data.

Mitch Pronschinske05/09/12
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Behold! A Solr Client for Scala

Scala users, check this out! If you've been trying to have a better interface for using Apache Solr in your Scala projects, there's a pretty new simple Solr client for Scala being developed on GitHub by Naoki Takezoe.

Mitch Pronschinske05/09/12
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Solr as an Analytics Engine - A Key Theme at this Week's Lucene Revolution

The de facto Lucene and Solr conference is underway today in Boston, Massachusetts. The conferences have been very popular among the growing number of developers who are being asked to focus on building Lucene/Solr into their companies' software.

Mitch Pronschinske05/07/12
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BREAKING: Jury Finds Infringements in Oracle v. Google Copyright Case

The verdict for phase one of the Oracle v. Google trial has finally been read and what sources out of Twitter are saying indicate that some infringement was found on Google's end.

Mitch Pronschinske05/07/12
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FarCry Solr Pro CMS Plugin

Looking for a Solr CMS plugin on par with the Drupal plugin? The FarCry Solr Pro plugin lets you use the power of Lucene (through Solr) to index and search your site. It goes above and beyond ColdFusion's native implementation of Solr.

Mitch Pronschinske05/04/12
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Video Walkthrough: Connecting Solr and Acquia Drupal Search

Continuing where the last screencast left off, this third tutorial shows how to install the Acquia Connector (Acquia is an enterprise Drupal SaaS), and then...