Using Solr Cloud, For Real!

Loggly is a cloud based logging service. It helps you collect, index, and store all your log data with the help of Solr

How They Did It: Cut the Rope in HTML5

First it was Angry Birds, now the popular mobile game "Cut the Rope" has been completely converted to HTML5.

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Serving Compressed Rails Assets from S3 via Cloudfront

I wrote about how we do asset packaging with Rails, how we Jammit and push them to S3 in this post. We’ve had a few surprises since then, one that had to do...

0 replies - 305 views - 01/27/12 by Daniel Doubrovkine in Articles

The Increasing Pervasiveness of JavaScript: A Few Historic Milestones

JavaScript is used in more and more places. It started out as a scripting language for web content and has migrated to many areas. This post presents the...

0 replies - 428 views - 01/27/12 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles

How To: Install a Full Development Environment for Django on Windows

I recently installed a full development environment for Django on Windows 7 and found that it took longer than expected. The path to getting everything...

0 replies - 643 views - 01/27/12 by Everett Toews in Articles

Github Ribbons in CSS

Github has these cool ribbon images that you can use if you want to encourage forking your project on your site. They're great and I wanted to use them on a...

0 replies - 609 views - 01/27/12 by Terrence Ryan in Articles

Morphological Analysis and Named Entity Recognition in Lucene/Solr

This talk will show how the relevance of search results can be improved by using morphological analysis and named entity recognition. After briefly...

0 replies - 1021 views - 01/27/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos

JavaScript Performance: for vs. while

If you have read some preformance tests on JavaScript loops, you may have heard that “while” is faster than “for”. However the question is how faster...

0 replies - 173 views - 01/27/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

Developers Guide to Running Django Applications on Heroku

Heroku the platform as a service (PAAS) company, very popular in the Ruby on Rails community, has now started opening up their platform to languages besides...

0 replies - 892 views - 01/26/12 by Ken Cochrane in Articles

Node.js Makes for Cluttered Code

According to a recent post by Peter Moberg on his blog Source Code Bean, your node.js code is being polluted by it's own callbacks.  Moberg's recent hacking...

0 replies - 185 views - 01/26/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Node.js Makes for Cluttered Code

According to a recent post by Peter Moberg on his blog Source Code Bean, your node.js code is being polluted by it's own callbacks.  Moberg's recent hacking...

0 replies - 1122 views - 01/26/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

HTML5 Canvas & Processing JS

When I first sat down to redesign my personal site I knew that I wanted to incorporate HTML5 Canvas somewhere in the layout. The problem was that I hadn't...

0 replies - 786 views - 01/26/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

CSS3 Image Hover Effects

Today I will tell you how to create different CSS3 image hover effects. I hope that you still remember our old tutorial. We used JavaScript there. Today I...

0 replies - 713 views - 01/26/12 by Andrey Prikaznov in Articles

Is Programming Less Exciting Today?

As discriminatory as this is going to sound, this one is for the old-timers. If you started programming after the turn of the milennium, I don’t know if...

13 replies - 5664 views - 01/26/12 by Ted Neward in Articles

Solr at Etsy

Search at Etsy poses significant challenges. Our marketplace is filled with millions of unique, short-lived items and people trying to find them over 10...

0 replies - 2154 views - 01/26/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos

Unit testing when Value Objects get in the way

Tests developed during TDD can be classified into several levels, depending on the size of the object graph they need to work with. End-to-end tests span the...

0 replies - 2569 views - 01/26/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Nodejs: Using Connect’s BasicAuth with Express

Connect is a middleware framework for Nodejs and is used in several projects like Express. Today I’ll show you a very simple way to use the BasicAuth...

0 replies - 188 views - 01/26/12 by Chad Lung in Articles