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Solr and Lucene Reference Guide updated for v3.5

The free Solr Reference Guide published by Lucid Imagination has been updated to 3.5 - the current release version of Solr and Lucene. The changes weren't...

1 replies - 1943 views - 01/23/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

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...

0 replies - 3506 views - 01/18/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

How Twitter Paired Devs and Designers to Build Bootstrap

With the recent release  of a demo version of Twitter Bootstrap 2.0, Mark Otto, one of the creators of Twitter Bootstrap, attests to the power of...

0 replies - 2263 views - 01/18/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

OrientDB Community Still Showing Signs of Life

OrientDB, a NoSQL database management system written entirely in Java, is finally gaining some much deserved traction.  A recent OrientDB Google groups post...

6 replies - 1949 views - 01/17/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

PyPy Team Trying to Go Multicore

The PyPy team has updated their progress on getting rid of the infamous Global Interpreter Lock in Python.  According to their previous post, the team was...

0 replies - 1123 views - 01/16/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

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...

0 replies - 3677 views - 01/11/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

6th Annual IndicThreads Conference on Java

Attending a conference (probably as renowned and as recognized as the Java conference by IndicThreads) adds to your muscle – Period.  By the way, I have...

0 replies - 1641 views - 12/14/11 by Abhay Bakshi in News

New Resources for Running Solr on an Azure Cloud

I just found a great new project on GitHub that's going to help a lot of Solr and Lucene projects deploy to a cloud infrastructure today.  It's a showcase on...

0 replies - 2177 views - 12/13/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

Silverlight 5 has been released plus other info!

On December the 9th, 2011, Microsoft released the final version of Silverlight 5. This release included many new features that I was looking forward to...

2 replies - 1027 views - 12/13/11 by Michael Crump in News

Solr 4.0: DocTransformers first look

In todays entry we will look at the next feature that will come with version 4.0 of Apache Solr. We will look at the functionality which enables us to modify...

0 replies - 1987 views - 12/13/11 by Rafał Kuć in News

DevOps Tweets of the Week - 12/12

Check it out.  A lot of provocative new tweeters have entered the #DevOps Domain: @lynxbat Nicholas Weaver

0 replies - 2158 views - 12/12/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

Redis Running on Win32—Not Important Enough for Core Project Inclusion Says Creator

Microsoft recently built a patch that runs Redis on win 32 using the libUV library (which also powers node.js if you're wondering).  The creator of Redis,...

2 replies - 2684 views - 12/09/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

Recent Community Conversation on Scala

For several years now, I've thought about investing more time and effort into learning and trying out Scala. However, there always seems to be something else...

1 replies - 2056 views - 12/08/11 by Dustin Marx in News

Windows Store: More Flexible than Apple, and a 80/20 Revenue Split Over $25K

Microsoft just gained a major competitive edge for its Windows Phone and upcoming Windows 8 platform.  I'm guessing that Google and Apple will now have to...

0 replies - 2763 views - 12/07/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

Lucene.net 2.9.4 is out, now with NuGet

Last week  Lucene.Net 2.9.4 was released on the official site. Lucene.net 2.9.4 There is no official news feed for the project, so I’m just copying here...

0 replies - 1631 views - 12/05/11 by Simone Chiaretta in News