Daily Archives: 25 January 2008

Enterprise search with PHP and Apache Solr

Posted on 25 January 2008 by rochakchauhan

Posted by: Martin Streicher (martin.streicher@gmail.com), Editor in Chief, McClatchy Interactive Discover how to combine an enterprise-worthy search engine — Apache Software Foundation’s Solr — with your PHP application. In “Build a custom search engine with PHP,” I combined PHP and the open source Sphinx search engine to create a blazing-fast alternative to text-intensive database queries, … Continue reading »

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Facebook and the wonder of widgets

Posted on 25 January 2008 by rochakchauhan

The news that Facebook has opened its API to allow third-party widgets will have non-technical readers scratching their heads.   What is an API, you will probably wonder? What’s a third-party widget? Indeed, perhaps Facebook itself is still a mystery to you. Set up in 2004 as an online answer to the yearbooks popular in … Continue reading »

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Sun fixes all bugs in Java 6

Posted on 25 January 2008 by rochakchauhan

Sun has pushed out a major update to its Java software package that features scores of bug fixes, including a number of security updates. Java 6 Update 4 includes a hefty 370 bug fixes (as explained here). Most of these are minor tweaks to improve performance or application glitches, but some are more notable as … Continue reading »

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