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Comparing the Apache Solr and Sphinx search platforms

One of my clients was mentioning to me a huge newspaper archive that he was getting ready to put online. What he was doing with the search — trying to provide access to a huge amount of data with very good throughput speeds, all available on the web — sounded like something that the Apache [...]

JSON: Ajax without the cross-domain issues

I’ve just posted an introductory discusion on JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). What’s itneresting about it is it provides away to get around the cross-domain issues you get when you try to access web services using Ajax. Yahoo’s now outputting JSON in a ridiculously easy way, so this is worth checking out.

Yahoo releases web services API

Check it out over on the InformIT blog…

What I want in an aggregator

Almost a year ago, I wrote about what I want in an RSS aggregator, and now, as I actually write one in C++ (see, I told you I was doing it) I’ve gone back and found that all of those requests are still valid. And I still don’t see anybody doing all of it.

Thanks, Adam!

Adam Kinney liked the XAML article. Thanks, Adam! Must have gotten it right, because Adam works at Xamlon.

Using the Generic Log Adapter with the Log and Trace Analyzer

Now featured on developerWorks: Using the Generic Log Adapter with the Log and Trace Analyzer The GLA and LTA are Eclipse-based tools that enable logs to be parsed for occurrences of pre-defined events, relate those events to situations, and recommend actions based on information in a knowledge base. This tutorial is of particular interest to [...]

Understand the Autonomic Management Engine

Now on developerWorks: Understand the Autonomic Management Engine “The idea of an autonomic computing system is attractive — who wouldn’t want a system that knows what to look for, and what to do if it finds it? But, building one from scratch is too much of an undertaking for most shops. Fortunately, the Autonomic Management [...]

Mozilla and the potential for interaction

Ever heard of XUL? It’s a new way of building web applications in Mozilla (and the newer versions of Netscape). Kind of like a “super” form, with all kinds of interactivity available. I still haven’t had time to fool around with it, despite a brief interlude when it looked like I might have to write [...]

Why I like XInclude

XInclude, designed to make it easier to include part of one XMl document into another, has been a neglected specification for a long time. Now Bob DuCharme gives a good example of how it can be useful with Transclude with XInclude (and XPointer!). It still doesn’t address the security issues, but OK, there you are.

DOM and PHP

Now in the XML Reference Guide over at : DOM and PHP PHP has support for XML built in, but as far as production code, it’s limited to SAX. You can install the DomDocument module, but you do, of course, have to have access to the actual server in order to use it. Fortunately, for [...]