Dive into the archives.
- Using Solr’s AbstractSolrTestCase
This past week I worked on utilizing Solr’s AbstractSolrTestCase which extends JUnit’s TestCase. In theory, this makes it easier to create tests that hit an index and run thru the entire search pipeline if necessary.
Unfortunately, there isn’t a ton of docs to help out but there are plenty of examples within Solr’s source to [...]
- Testing with Redis
Long time, no blog… But enough about that.
On the side, I’ve been working on a new aggregator, Aggir, which allows me to test various things. I started off using SQLite and Sequel for storage, put Solr behind the scenes for search and added a very simple Web UI using Sinatra and HAML. [...]
- Bridges to the Future
Kevin Matheny has written a really excellent piece at BusinessWeek, extolling the virtues of agile software development. I think it can be one of the toughest battles within a large organization but if you win and are allowed to be flexible, the benefits are easily more than any struggles you’ll have.
What this means for managing [...]
- Don’t forget kids…
Languages Don’t Scale
- Campaign Finance API from the NY Times
The New York Times opened up an API to get data about campaign financing. Yes, I’m jealous that they did this before we did.
- The Importance of being Developer-Friendly
I’ve been working with a legacy framework the last couple of weeks. It’s something that’s been in production for over 6 years and you can definitely tell. There are files checked in with dates as extensions, always a sure sign of legacy. It’s obvious that there hasn’t been any new developers coming [...]
- iPhone Freedom == iPhone Knowledge
With the lifting of the NDA on iPhone developers, I expect to see lots of posts and articles showing how to do a great many things.
A few I’ve seen so far:
iPhone Application Example
Inside the iPhone SDK
Using URL schemes in AppsI’m sure there will be more but this is a great start… Now if I [...]
- Some things I’ve liked recently
Here’s a few things I’ve come across the last few days which are pretty nifty…
The Las Vegas Sun’s weather page. Extremely clean design with lots of data but easy to read and understand unlike ours.
EveryBlock is now in LA… Watch out.
Simple Update Protocol looks like a mix between a cache and sending out [...]
- Trying to run CouchDB
Update: I’m happy to say I got CouchDB working with all the dependencies. In order for things to link correctly, I used the patch that DarwinPorts uses for compilation. The main change seems to be adding -install_name to the linker call. Once that was done, everything fell into place.
I’m trying to [...]
- Mobile NetNewsWire
Ars Technica has a preview of a mobile version of NetNewsWire which looks pretty awesome from the screenshots.
What you won’t see here are sites or feeds that do not have any unread items. In fact, Brent has taken measures to ensure that on the mobile version of NetNewsWire, the user will only see what’s important [...]
