Links for October 20th through October 23rd

October 23, 2011

How to clone Wikipedia and index it with Solr « Nimble Books LLC – I have (finally) successfully cloned Wikipedia and indexed it with Solr. In the spirit of documenting my work and helping others, here are the key steps along the way. Redux: Inspecting HotSpot JVM Options – There is enormous scope for coarse [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for October 18th through October 20th

October 20, 2008

The Short List for U.S. Chief Technology Officer – BusinessWeek – Barack Obama has pledged to name a cabinet-level CTO to oversee a job-creating national broadband buildout if he's elected. Big names abound Wikimedia Ubuntu migration FAQ – Meta – There's been some recent news coverage about Wikimedia's ongoing migration of servers to Ubuntu Linux. [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for October 8th through October 11th

October 11, 2008

InfoQ: Cascading – Data Processing API for Hadoop MapReduce – Cascading is a new processing API for data processing on Hadoop clusters, and supports building complex processing workflows using an expressive API as opposed to directly implementing Hadoop MapReduce algorithms. InfoQ: Open Source WS Stacks for Java – Design Goals and Philosophy – Among the [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for September 24th through September 27th

September 27, 2008

Completely Test Your BlackBerry Phone for any Problems with this Secret Shortcut – If you own a BlackBerry mobile phone (or plan to buy one), here’s a very useful shortcut (or can we say Easter Egg) that enables you to perform a complete health checkup of your BlackBerry hardware. Using Java Persistence in a J2EE [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for February 2nd through February 3rd

February 3, 2008

Adobe Labs – BlazeDS – The BlazeDS Release Candidate was released on February 1, 2008. BlazeDS is the server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology that enables developers to easily connect to back-end distributed data and push data in real-time to Flex and AIR app Marcel Overdijk’s Blog: Code by convention with Flex and Spring [...]

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