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DZone's Different!

austinrk — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:00:36 +0000

Hello DZoners!My name is Austin Kowitz and I’m a graphic designer at DZone. And you can mostly blame (praise?) me and DZone developer, Ross Jernigan, for what you see currently at DZone. We still have tons of ideas we haven't implemented yet -- but we're doing the agile thing, releasing early, releasing often. So we'd love hear your feedback, whatever it may be. I’m bracing myself for the...

MoreSQL (formerly NewSQL): A Serious Competitor for NoSQL

egenesky — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:58:36 +0000

Back in November, Alex Tatiyants made some waves with his article, "NoSQL No More: Let's double down with MoreSQL," when he made the the following tongue-in-cheek call to arms . . .Today, I am calling on developers everywhere to join a new movement dedicated to bringing back the golden era of relational databases: MoreSQL --Alex Tatiyant He even made the sweet MoreSQL logo to the...

Solr and Lucene Reference Guide updated for v3.5

mitchp — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:04:57 +0000

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 major, but here are the key changes:References Reference: Our Solr Reference Guide updated for v3.5 Mitchell Pronsc... ...

Amazon's DynamoDB Returns as a Managed, Hosted NoSQL Service

mitchp — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:14:40 +0000

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 consequences in for NoSQL consumers and businesses that sell NoSQL products. Price and convenience are going to be the most lucrative aspects of...

How Twitter Paired Devs and Designers to Build Bootstrap

egenesky — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:35:49 +0000

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 collaborative development in his blog post on 'A List Apart'. Otto, along with Jacob Thornton, were working with a group of Twitter employees . . . Eric Genesky

OrientDB Community Still Showing Signs of Life

egenesky — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

OrientDB, a NoSQL database management system written entirely in Java, is finally gaining some much deserved traction. A recent OrientDB Google groups post welcomed Luca Molino and Andrey Lomakin as the first two commeitters to the open source project. The Orient team recognizes that . . . Eric Genesky

PyPy Team Trying to Go Multicore

egenesky — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:29:33 +0000

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 attempting to approach the problem using Software Transactional Memory, a relatively recent development in computer science. So far, the lock has been removed in Jython, but this is more of a problem in CPython. According to the PyPy...

DZone's Bringing You More Python Awesomeness

mitchp — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:57:05 +0000

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?

6th Annual IndicThreads Conference on Java

j2eecop — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:21:40 +0000

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 picked up from the same thread -- same tone and similar spirit -- from March 2011. IndicThreads held the Q11 conference then, which I had a chance to attend and then write a short report on for DZone. If you attended IndicThreads...

New Resources for Running Solr on an Azure Cloud

mitchp — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:45:46 +0000

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 how to configure and host Solr and Lucene on Windows Azure:References Reference: Solr/Lucene on Azure Mitchell Pronsc... ...

Silverlight 5 has been released plus other info!

mbcrump — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:05:48 +0000

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 including: P/Invoke, XAML Binding Debugging and Implicit Data Templates. with this release came the Go-Live license. This meant that you can now publish Silverlight 5 application to production servers and get support! I am proud to see this...

Solr 4.0: DocTransformers first look

gr0 — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:52:40 +0000

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 the fields in Solr result lists. References Reference: Solr 4.0: DocTransformers first look Mitchell Pronsc...

DevOps Tweets of the Week - 12/12

mitchp — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:31:56 +0000

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

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

mitchp — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:57:09 +0000

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, Salvatore Sanfilippo heard about the news and shared his own opinion about the patch:

Recent Community Conversation on Scala

java_dm — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:40:38 +0000

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 that I run across that moves ahead in the queue of things I want to examine more closely. With this in mind, the recent postings on general usefulness of Scala have been particularly interesting.References Reference: ...