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Web Cache - created

David George — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:32:08 +0100

Caching is one of the most important means of improving apparent speed of access where retrieving an object is slow. The idea for caching seems to have originated sometime in 1948/49 where the Manchester Mark 1 computer used a cathode ray tube (CRT) to store 2048 bits of information as a first level cache for drum storage. The cathode ray tube worked in a similar way to modern Dynamic RAM memory.

Apache Configuration - created

David George — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:22:21 +0100

For simple configurations where Magneato is run under Jetty there is no need for a frontal web server such as Apache or nginx. However if you are running multiple applications on your server, or for corporate security reasons, you may have to run Magneato behind an Apache web server.

Magneato Security Configuration

David George — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:33:01 +0100

Magneato Security is based on Spring Security version 3.0. It is configured in the WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml file. What and how your Magneato installion is secured is entirely up to you. This can range from an entirely open “wiki” like website to securing read access to certain pages or groups of pages or even the entire CMS.

Developer's Guide - updated

David George — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:14:10 +0100

The developers guide will tell you how to access the Magneato CMS source, set up Maven to build the application and start coding using Eclipse. We develop on both Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows XP environments. Dependencies In order to develop Magneato CMS you will need the following third party software components

Magneato CMS

David George — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:53:01 +0100

Magneato is an open source content management system (CMS) oriented towards structured, user defined, data. It is a powerful synthesis of XForms, XPath and the Java Content Repository (Apache Jackrabbit). It enables powerful web applications to be developed rapidly and at low cost.

Eclipse Helios - created

David George — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:07:48 +0100

I've just downloaded Eclipse Helios. I can't tell the difference with Galileo for the moment, I will have to check out the release notice. However when updating GWT I got the following exception. Very interesting. As I was upgrading it seems my eclipse.ini, which I'd copied from elsewhere, had picked up my Socks proxy browser settings.

Java

David George — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:00:56 +0100

I have been working using Java since 1995 when I downloaded release 0.89a. I've used all Java versions to Java 5.0 and have worked on a number of new technology projects using the language. In 1998 I worked on an 18 month project developing a configuration management tool for a major telecommunications company. For this project I developed an Object Relational Mapper called Cobra. This tool enabled developers to access Java objects over local or an RMI interface and could automatically generate…

Google Search Appliance Keyword Cloud

David George — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:47:25 +0100

You can get a list of keywords and their popularity by asking for a report from the Google Search Appliance Administrative API. The report is in xml format. The results have to be parsed and turned into a cloud. Authenticating with the Google Search Appliance The following code demonstrates how to authenticate with the Google Search Appliance using the cURL utility. We grep for a line called “Auth=” and store this in a variable for later use.

Deleting Whole Index - created

David George — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:36:06 +0100

This page documents some experiences we have had implementing Solr search for clients such as Somfy and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Deleting Whole Index This will delete the whole index curl http://172.16.32.190:8080/solr/somfy/update?commit=true -H "Content-Type: text/xml" --data-binary 'uid:[* TO *]'

Solr Cores and Multiple Indexes - created

David George — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:27:01 +0100

If you are dealing with multiple sources with different data models you may need to consider if you want a single or multiple indexes for you search application. It is a similar problem to denormalizing data in a traditional database. Using a single index may result in name-space collisions and lower the quality of document scoring algorithms. The main benefit of separating indexes is scalability in terms of update and query performance. Multiple indexes will make the schema easier to read and t…

Search

David George — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:24:43 +0100

* Google Search Appliance * Feeding your Google Search Appliance * Google Search Appliance Keyword Cloud * Formatting the output of the Google Search Appliance * Google Search Appliance Tips and Tricks * gsa-search-suggest * Deleting Whole Index * Using Tika and Solr to index Office Documents * Solr 1.4+ and Liferay 6.0+ Integration * Solr Hit Highlighting * TikaEntityProcessor dissected * Solr Cores and Multiple Indexes