A couple weeks ago I went to the Agile2010 conference in Orlando, and it was a really great experience. I really enjoyed giving my talk on range estimation in…
Recently I wrote a blog post on why software developers are typically so bad at estimation. I also gave a preview of the presentation that I am giving today…
I know its a bit harsh to insult you in the title of this post, but the odds are, you really stink at estimation. Even if you know youre…
Favicon and Rails? Want to use a favicon.ico but dont want to put it at the root as favicon.ico? Then add
On December 8, 2009, the Executive Office of the President of the United States issued a memorandum providing guidance and directives for implementing the Open Government policy. While the…
I recently needed to index from a local filesystem several thousand static webpages into Solr. I was already using Ruby on Rails for the admin interface, so I quickly…
So, is James Bach (@jamesmarcusbach) the bad boy of testing? I flew up to Boston on Monday to lead some workshops on Continuous Integration. I checked into my room…
Today, OpenSource Connections received notification that they had been chosen as a University of Virginia preferred vendor for Web Design, Development, and Programming Services. The new contract should appear…
The University of Virginia sought a solution to make all text documents in their Digital Collection Library text-searchable. Containing thousands of documents, the search engine needed to be capable…
Yesterday Yonik committed my first contribution to Solr. It was a simple simplification of the test code infrastruture. Some of the tests depend on Java System properties, however if…
Here’s an old blog about Tomcat security. We specialise in helping teams building powerful and relevant search engines with Solr and Elasticsearch – get in touch if you need…