I was seriously considering going to PyCon this year — i’ve got a buddy in Chicago that I’ve been meaning to catch up with — I’m really glad I decided to pass this year.
This post from Bruce Eckle is floating around: PyCon disappointment
If the following seems unnecessarily harsh, it was even more harsh [...]
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Don Brown a software engineer with atlassian the company behind Jira — has decided enough time has gone by without his complains of Maven being addressed — and has forked his own maven build.
A lot of proposed changes are around increasing the time it takes to download build dependencies, mixing the location of build requirements [...]
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All UNIX-like systems come with a ‘ps’ utility which displays the processes running — however any java application will just show up as the ‘java’ process since everything runes in the java vm.
If you are looking for insight into the processes inside a java virtual machine try: “jps” — which will print a list of [...]
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I’ve got a few Ubuntu systems lying around, and I’ve recently started playing around with Apache Hadoop.
I had several versions of the jdk installed including the one I wanted “sun-java6-jdk” however the gcj one was the default system.
There are two steps required to change the default JVM.
1) Edit /etc/jvm, and make sure the desired JVM [...]
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Quick note:
hBase is hadoop’s answer to google’s big table — it is a massively parallel, distributed database. It’s now being promoted to its own project (on the same level as hadoop).
This is totally cool, and as the tools around hdfs and hBase improve we’ll see a whole generation of new startups built around these frameworks [...]
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It has been a good holiday season for the ruby crowd. Frirst rails 2.0 was released and now ruby 1.9 which is supposed to have some impressive speed improvements.
Download links here: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/136553
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Apple has released a new developer preview for Java 1.6 on Leopard. It’s a bit late in the game to still be releasing developer previews I think. The download is available on the Apple Developer Connect (ADC) website here: http://developer.apple.com/java/
In other news TCL/Tk 8.5 has been released. Get yours fresh here: http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.5.html
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Ah! I was pleasantly surprised to stumble upon the package page for solr in the “testing” branch. Although I’m not sure how practical it will be unless the urses based installer prompts your for the docBase and web-app name you want to use to create the correct Context xml snippet and place it in Catalina/localhost [...]
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SOLR, “Searching On Lucene with Replication” which started out life at CNET, before it was released to the open source community comes with a solid example configuration using the Jetty embeded servlet container.
Getting SOLR running on Debian GNU/Linux with Tomcat in production environments can be a tad tricker. If you just unpacked the dist/solr.war into [...]
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Lucy is the “Loose C” port of the Java Lucene api, with perl and ruby bindings. It was created by Marvin Humphrey, and David Balmain.
svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/lucy/trunk/ lucy
The perl bindings are in lucy/perl — and it requires Module::Build, and the standared C/C++ development headers
I installed that with the following command on my Ubuntu [...]
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