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Mitch Pronschinske01/05/12
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DZone's Top 10 Solr and Lucene Articles of 2011

This week, DZone has gathered together its top articles in every major topical area. These Open Source Search articles were chosen by popularity and quality of content.Top 10 Lucene/Solr Articles of 2011Lucene's FuzzyQuery is 100 times faster in 4.0Solr +...

Mitch Pronschinske01/02/12
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Solr on EC2

"Cloud computing" is all the rage recently, and Amazon's EC2 is one of the major players. The idea of spinning up a new instance of Solr in...

Mitch Pronschinske01/01/12
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Just the Job: Employing Solr for Recruitment Search

Charlie Hull, a search expert and engineer at Flax Serach, presents an interesting and useful case study in search. Using this case study on a major European...

Mitch Pronschinske12/31/11
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Major Solr 4 Highlights

In this talk, Lucene/Solr committer Mark Miller will discuss some of the new features and advancements that users can look forward to in Solr 4. The list...

Mitch Pronschinske12/30/11
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LWE 2.0.1 Solr Development Platform Released!

The Solr/Lucene development platform produced by LucidImagination - Home to Solr creator Yonik Seeley and long-time Lucene PMC Grant Ingersoll - has reached a new version today that updates a list of key issues. The platform, called "LucidWorks...

Mitch Pronschinske12/29/11
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Adapting Ajax-Solr to Compare Document sets

One of the main features of Solr is Faceted Search. Facets are the top terms present in the results of a query. But facets do not indicate the most...

Mitch Pronschinske12/20/11
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PhoneGap 1.3 Arrives with Full API Support for Windows Phone

Big news for mobile hybrid and web app developers! PhoneGap 1.3 is out, and the biggest new feature is PhoneGap's full API support for Windows Phone 7. While iOS, Android, and Blackberry support recieved various bug fixes, WP7 recieved these new...

Mitch Pronschinske12/16/11
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Building a Location-Based Web App w/ MongoDB

This talk features:MongoDB data modeling, geospatial updates, queries, and MapReduceAn example using a location-based appShowing how the example works in a...

Mitch Pronschinske12/10/11
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DevOps for Django - The Best Deployment Strategy

Deploying Django is hard according to blogger Randall Degges. His initial post about Django deployment got a lot of attention from some big time developers in the Django community. What he decided to do as a result was to start documenting the best...

Mitch Pronschinske12/07/11
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Strategies for Web App Notifications on the Desktop

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Mitch Pronschinske12/05/11
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Search, REST & Play! Video Discovery

James Alexander, Open University: The Open University has been creating programmes in partnership with BBC for over forty years. The resulting video archive contains over 9,000 programmes and 70,000 tapes of raw footage. The Access to Video Assets (AVA)...

Mitch Pronschinske12/01/11
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Designing Mobile Search

About 15% of searches in 2011 have been performed on mobile devices, with an estimated rise to one in every four by next year. And people aren't just searching Google: restaurants, cars, electronics, and even enterprise content are all being searched by...

Mitch Pronschinske11/30/11
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WP7 Simulator for Android and iOS: An Interesting Tactic

What if you could demo the Metro UI from Windows Phone 7 on your Android or iPhone? No we're not talking about a sophisticated hack or jailbreak, we're talking about something that the average Joe could use.Well that demo is here today, and it works through...

Mitch Pronschinske11/29/11
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Making a VS Achievements App for Windows Phone

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Mitch Pronschinske11/29/11
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WP Mango Series pt. 26: Background File Transfer

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