Interesting article @ Infoq and at Adobe and here @ hstack . This looks like a nice capability. I can personally speak to the amount of pain involved with setting up a Hadoop cluster.... node aliases, configuring ssh, keys, logins, environment settings, software install, zookeeper etc etc. Its a lot of tedium so anything that … Continue reading Automating hadoop deployments @ Adobe puppet recipes
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Review: Oracle Essentials
Recently I wanted to get a higher level overview of Oracle and some details about it, given most of my experience has been with DB2.. I'm not in the DBA role, I'm just using SQL Developer for basic work and Oracle Express (their free single instance, like the free DB2 edition) but its always good … Continue reading Review: Oracle Essentials
Review: LDAP System Administration
So after many years of not having a chance to really touch LDAP, I finally ended up getting this old O'reilly classic on LDAP. Overall the book is a short read at ~250 pages or so, but it covers about everything you will need to know about it. I was particularly interested in the types … Continue reading Review: LDAP System Administration
Thoughts on Endeca
I attended the Endeca Application Developer training course last month and walked away with a ton of information on this product. Frankly, its quite a bit to absorb in one week. I've done a fair amount of work with Lucene in the past and frankly you really cannot compare these two technologies directly. In the … Continue reading Thoughts on Endeca
Scrollbar not appearing in IE7 when CSS overflow auto is set
Recently when working on a JQuery based UI, I encountered an annoying IE 7 problem. I had a scrollable DIV setup with overflow:auto; configured in CSS. The scrollable DIV had a one child div which contained text. As the text grows in length the parent scrollable div should trigger a vertical scrollbar. This worked fine … Continue reading Scrollbar not appearing in IE7 when CSS overflow auto is set
My first brush with Cairngorm
So after reading "Professional Cairngorm" I decided that I would try using Cairngorm on my next project. Well that project is is the final stages of completion and I'd like to share my thoughts. The project was a dynamically driven Flex app embedded in a web-browser that could also run on AIR. The application was … Continue reading My first brush with Cairngorm
Security Sandbox Violation during run and debug after moving or copying a Flex project in Flex Builder
Ugh, this is one of those classic examples of getting sidetracked in your daily work because of some annoyances with Flex Builder. Today I copied an existing Flex Builder project in Eclipse to another directory (new renamed project). I then edited the project settings (renamed the project) before importing the new copied project into Eclipse. … Continue reading Security Sandbox Violation during run and debug after moving or copying a Flex project in Flex Builder
Book Review: Professional Cairngorm
This is a review of the book Professional Cairngorm by Jeremy Wischusen. When describing his motivations for writing this book the author tells a story about experience with Flex/AS3 development, but none of it using Cairngorm, then he had a job interview.... And in typical fashion, when he answered no to the "cairngorm experience" question, … Continue reading Book Review: Professional Cairngorm
Book Review: Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server
This is a book review of Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server, by David Smiley and Eric Pugh I picked up this book after hearing about Solr. I was looking into Drupal and trying to see what indexing engines were available for it and the only option that seemed to fit the bill was Solr. It … Continue reading Book Review: Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server
Gotcha! Tomcat strict quote escaping
So I was recently upgrading an older application from Tomcat 6.0.16 to 6.0.20 and started to see a JasperException appear on several JSP pages I was testing. The exception stated something similar to the following: [insert your var here] is quoted with " which must be escaped when used within the value.. So I looked … Continue reading Gotcha! Tomcat strict quote escaping
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