Jon Baer

Bug squash: Introducing SolrNet

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:47:53 -0500

Last month I’ve been working my a** off integrating Solr to our main site. The first step was to find out how to communicate with the Solr server. Naturally, I came to SolrSharp. But I found it to be really IoC-unfriendly: lots of inheritance, no interfaces, no unit-tests, so it would have been a real PITA to integrate it to Castle. So, instead of wrapping it, I built SolrNet.

43 Essential Controls for Web Applications | UX Booth

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:18:05 -0500

43 Essential Controls for Web Applications | UX Booth:

Many products are siloed by the RIA framework they are using, and designers create novel controls when the framework doesn’t have what they need. This can decrease the usability of the product, and increase the amount of design effort, usability testing, technical specifications and development time.

Web’s Buildout Boosting Server Chip Demand – GigaOM

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:40:33 -0500

Web’s Buildout Boosting Server Chip Demand – GigaOM:

A few days ago, Jay Adelson, chief executive officer of San Francisco-based social media company, Digg, told me that his company now has hundreds of servers. And the size of its infrastructure was continuing to grow with its usage. And that is after the company has started to maximize its CPU usage after tapping the power of open source software such as Cassandra and Hadoop for data analytics and data mining.

25 Fantastic Indie Gems Made for Less Than $1 Million | AlwaysWatching.net

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:31:17 -0500

25 Fantastic Indie Gems Made for Less Than $1 Million | AlwaysWatching.net:

The following movies all had budgets under $1 million, some of them reaching as low as $7,000. Let this act as a reminder: you don’t need to be backed by studio financing to make a great film

Arrivals | Development Status | Cultured Code

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:28:48 -0500

Arrivals | Development Status | Cultured Code:

Last updated on March 1, 2010

Panic Blog » The Panic Status Board

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:28:14 -0500

Panic Blog » The Panic Status Board:

This is good. But a lot of things happening mean a high chance that I, the man who lives and breathes Panic and has a giant status board in my head, might not properly explain everything to everyone. Steve and I realized it was high time we made this Cabel Status Board public… using technology!

Pentagon-Backed Venture Aims for ‘Google Underground’ | Danger Room | Wired.com

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:26:33 -0500

Pentagon-Backed Venture Aims for ‘Google Underground’ | Danger Room | Wired.com:

The Department of Defense already has omnipresent eyes in the sky, underwater and, of course, on the ground. It’s only when you start going underground that the surveillance powers of the Pentagon begin to wane — at least until now.

Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Theoretical Breakthrough for Quantum Cryptography

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:25:18 -0500

Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Theoretical Breakthrough for Quantum Cryptography:

The world of cryptography is currently undergoing a quantum revolution. The weird laws of quantum mechanics allow cryptographers to create codes that guarantee perfect secrecy. Until recently, the best cryptographers could aim for was just pretty good secrecy with codes that were always compromised in some way or another. Quantum cryptography, on the other hand, is perfect: theoretically and practically secure.

Fiverr – The place for people to share things they’re willing to do for $5

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:24:07 -0500

Fiverr – The place for people to share things they’re willing to do for $5:

The place for people to share things they’re willing to do for $5

remail-iphone - Project Hosting on Google Code

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:22:29 -0500

remail-iphone - Project Hosting on Google Code:

reMail downloads all your email to your iPhone and searches it instantly. reMail was recently acquired by Google, and we’ve decided open source the product: Read the reMail open source announcement for details

Think like a statistician – without the math | FlowingData

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:21:37 -0500

Think like a statistician – without the math | FlowingData:

The other day I was trying to think of the last time I did an actual hypothesis test or formal analysis. I couldn’t remember. I actually had to dig up old course listings to figure out when it was. It was four years ago during my first year of graduate school. I did well in those courses, and I’m confident I could do that stuff with a quick refresher, but it’s a no go off the cuff. It’s just not something I do regularly.

zoie - Project Hosting on Google Code

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:53:58 -0500

zoie - Project Hosting on Google Code:

Zoie is a mature open source project and has been deployed in a real-time large-scale consumer website: LinkedIn.com handling millions of searches as well as hundreds of thousands of updates daily.

Zoie Solr Plugin - Zoie - Confluence

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:52:52 -0500

Zoie Solr Plugin - Zoie - Confluence:

Zoie Solr Plugin enables real-time update functionality for Apache Solr 1.4+. (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/)

Install Search Server 2008 or Search Server 2008 Express

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:07:52 -0500

Install Search Server 2008 or Search Server 2008 Express:

This article explains how to install Microsoft Search Server 2008 or Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express on the first computer in a Search Server deployment. This installation produces a fully functional Search Server configuration.

Forge.mil

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:26:04 -0500

Forge.mil:

Forge.mil is a family of services provided to support the DoD’s technology development community. The system currently enables the collaborative development and use of open source and DoD community source software. These initial software development capabilities are growing to support the full system life-cycle and enable continuous collaboration among all stakeholders including developers, testers, certifiers, operators, and users.

Delta3D - Open source gaming & simulation engine

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:23:10 -0500

Delta3D - Open source gaming & simulation engine:

A well-supported and fully-funded open source project, Delta3D is a full-function game engine appropriate for a wide variety of modeling & simulation applications.

DoD Open Source Software (OSS) FAQ

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:20:28 -0500

DoD Open Source Software (OSS) FAQ:

This page is an educational resource for government employees and government contractors to understand the policies and legal issues relating to the use of open source software (OSS) in the Department of Defense (DoD). The information on this page does not constitute legal advice and any legal questions relating to specific situations should be referred to legal counsel. References to specific products or organizations are for information only, and do not constitute an endorsement of the product/company.

Download details: Search Server 2010 Express Beta

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:08:54 -0500

Download details: Search Server 2010 Express Beta:

This is a Beta version of Search Server 2010 Express.

Solr ‘n Stuff

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:48:47 -0500

Solr ‘n Stuff:

For example, here is a filter that only allows authors between martin and rowling, specified using a standard range query: fq=author_last_name:[martin TO rowling] And the same filter using a function range query (frange): fq={!frange l=martin u=rowling}author_last_name

As We May Think - Magazine - The Atlantic

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:26:49 -0500

As We May Think - Magazine - The Atlantic:

As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge. For years inventions have extended man’s physical powers rather than the powers of his mind.