Ruby 1.9 released

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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Java on Leopard and TCL updates

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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Debian packages for Solr in testing…

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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Running Solr on Debian with Tomcat

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 the loose C port of lucene

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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