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Mitch Pronschinske01/18/12
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Using Solr Cloud, For Real!

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Mitch Pronschinske01/18/12
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Hack Neo4j on Heroku for Fun and Profit

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Mitch Pronschinske01/18/12
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How They Did It: Cut the Rope in HTML5

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Mitch Pronschinske01/18/12
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Amazon's DynamoDB Returns as a Managed, Hosted NoSQL Service

DynamoDB is back. This was the word today out of Amazon sending shockwaves through the development world. If the days of cheap cloud-based NoSQL databases weren't here already, they certainly are now. We expect this announcement to have serious...

Mitch Pronschinske01/17/12
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Functional Programming with Python

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Mitch Pronschinske01/17/12
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Maven: Great Idea, Poor Implementation

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Mitch Pronschinske01/17/12
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Solr at Virgin Money Giving

Virgin Money Giving is a UK-based not-for-profit business that was launched as a result of Virgin Money’s sponsorship of the London Marathon and raised...

Mitch Pronschinske01/17/12
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HTML5 Canvas Refcard - Meet the Author: Simon Sarris

The Canvas element is one of the most exciting and celebrated new technologies that arrived with the new HTML5 specifications. It gave web developers and designers the ability to create many dynamic graphics that they were previously only able to make with...

Mitch Pronschinske01/15/12
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Lessons Learned: Refactoring a Solr-Based API App

In this case study I'll discuss architectural lessons learned from refactoring an existing REST-API backed by Apache Solr. The initial goal of the...

Mitch Pronschinske01/14/12
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Text Analytics in Enterprise Search

Text analytics is a large and interesting subject, covering a wide range of topics. In the world of enterprise search however, the usual application of...

Mitch Pronschinske01/13/12
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Configuring Mahout Clustering Jobs

For more than a decade internet search engines have helped users find documents they are looking for. However, what if users aren't looking for anything...

Mitch Pronschinske01/12/12
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Archive-It: Scaling Beyond a Billion Archival Webpages

Description of Archive-It, the Internet Archive's subscription, self-serve web archiving service, focused on the full-text search system. With nearly 200...

Mitch Pronschinske01/12/12
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'The Developer World Has Serious Issues With Diversity' -Martin Fowler

Although it's easy to become accustomed to it, it's pretty obvious the software development world has some serious issues in diversity. By this I mean that we have some notable differences in proportions of people compared to the general population. One...

Mitch Pronschinske01/11/12
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DZone's Bringing You More Python Awesomeness

Calling all Pythonistas (Pythonistos?) and Djangonauts! Did you know that Python is ranked 3rd behind Java and JavaScript as the programming language that DZone audience members would want to know if they could only pick 3?

Mitch Pronschinske01/09/12
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Pulling Jenkins' strings with Puppet

A couple months ago I created this puppet-jenkins module while experimenting with using Puppet to script or otherwise control more and more of my daily sysadmin-life.