14 Aug 2013
In their influential book "The Pragmatic Programmer" Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas describe a technique for finding solutions to hard problems you are struggling with. They recommend to just tell the problem to somebody, not for getting an answer, but because while explaining the problem you are thinking differently about it. And, if there is nobody around you, get yourself a rubber duck you can talk to, hence the name of the tip.
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11 Aug 2013
Last week I attended SoCraTes, an international Open Space conference on Software Craftmanship and Testing. As a few days have passed now I'd like to recap what sessions I attended and what was discussed. Though this is only a minor part of the sessions that have been discussed you should get a good grasp on what kind of topics are shared during the two days.
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31 Jul 2013
ElasticSearch exposes most of its functionality via a RESTful API. When it comes to querying the data, you can either pass request parameters, e.g. the query string, or use the query DSL which structures the queries as JSON objects. For a talk I gave I used this example which executes a GET request with curl and passes the JSON query structure in the request body.
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05 Jun 2013
PacktPub kindly offered me a free review edition of Hibernate Search by Example. Though I've used Lucene and Hibernate independently on a lot of projects I've never used Hibernate Search which builds on both technologies. That makes me a good candidate for reviewing an introductory book on it.
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28 May 2013
ElasticSearch is gaining a huge momentum with large installations like Github and Stackoverflow switching to it for its search capabilities. Its distributed nature makes it an excellent choice for large datasets with high availability requirements. In this 2 part article I'd like to share what I learned building a small Java application just for search.
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