Since a week I have the latest Android phone of Sony Ericsson, the X10. As it is my first Android phone, the first thing I did was searching the Android Market for great apps to get the maximum out of my Android system.
In this post I will show you my selection of apps that I found useful, interesting or just fun to have.
JTeam will now offer leading on-demand APM tool to monitor, troubleshoot and optimize deployments of Solr search server
JTeam today announced that it has partnered with New Relic, Inc., to make New Relic RPM available to its clients during consulting engagements. JTeam consultants and clients can now use RPM collaboratively to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize live production web applications and Solr instances, and thus ensure successful application deployments and a superior Web user experience.
New Relic, Inc. is the leading software-as-a-service provider of application performance management (APM) solutions. Its flagship product, New Relic RPM, is an on-demand performance management solution for web applications developed in Java, Ruby, or JRuby and provides deep, 24×7 visibility and code-level diagnostics for web applications deployed on traditional, dedicated infrastructures or in the cloud. New Relic recently announced RPM’s ability to provide deep visibility into production Solr instances. To learn more about New Relic RPM and Solr monitoring go to http://www.newrelic.com/solr.html.
www.rijksoverheid.nl is live. Hoelang geleden het idee achter één rijksbrede website is ontstaan weet ik niet. Hoelang ik nu bij het project betrokken ben weet ik wel.
Het is nu ongeveer anderhalf jaar geleden dat ik ben begonnen als Software Architect bij het project Overheid Nieuws Stijl. Het is een ambitieus project om 16 websites samen te laten komen in één rijksbrede website www.rijksoverheid.nl. Met de eerste live gang zijn er 7 websites over: postbus 51, regering.nl, minaz.nl, minez.nl, minocw.nl, minvws.nl en jeugengezin.nl. Uiteraard moest de meeste content van de websites ook op de nieuwe website terug te vinden zijn.
Vanuit de overheid is er voor gekozen om zoveel mogelijk Open Source software te gaan gebruiken. Ook voor het project Overheid Nieuwe Stijl (ONS) is er gekozen voor meerdere Open Source oplossingen. Naast het gebruik van Open Source software worden zaken als Open Standaarden en ook Open Data belangrijk gevonden. Vooral Open Data wordt door iedereen als zeer positief ervaren. De licentie voor alle content is Creative Commons.
Mocht je meer informatie willen hebben over dit enorme project, dan kun je deze hier vinden.
In deze blogpost wil ik me vooral concentreren op de betrokkenheid van JTeam bij dit ambitieuze project voor de rijksoverheid.
The Enterprise Search market has long been dominated by commercial vendors and their products (e.g. Autonomy and Fast). We at JTeam feel that this era is finally over. At least for certain customers and requirements, there is finally a good Open Source alternative: Apache Solr, which is the Enterprise Search server based on Apache Lucene. In this blog post we’ll give our view on enterprise search and explain how Lucene and Solr can help you realize your projects.
Introducing the Solr Spatial Plugin
What do a directory services company, a wholesaler of bathroom fittings, a social events guide, an oceanographic data centre and the pan-European library initiative have in common? They all need to offer their clients the ability to search and filter results within a flexible geographic area, defined by the user.
With a variety of businesses needing to customize search results to the preferences of a narrowly targeted audience, there’s an increasing demand for incorporating geographical location information into standard search functionality.
In response, JTeam has recently launched the Solr Spatial Plugin (SSP): a free, standalone, enterprise-ready plugin enabling location based search, built on top of the open source project Apache Solr.
Tomorrow, JTeam is hosting the second edition of our Search Symposium. The following two session (see read more / below) will be presented and will serve as input for the discussion afterward. If you are working in the search domain and would like to join us, sign up by sending an email to: signup@jteam.nl.
Hope to see you all there!
JTeam is proud to announce the second edition of the JTeam Search Symposium. After the success of the first symposium and the conclusion that there are many different perspectives on search, we look forward to continue the discussion. This Search Symposium is planned for Nov. 12 from 14.00 to 17.00 with drinks afterwards. Based on feedback from the previous meeting, we decided to change the location to the Kloosterzaal at Hotel Arena in Amsterdam.
This blog entry is part 2 out of the series, where I discuss the process to structure support and maintenance work, at JTeam.
In the previous part (part 1) of this series, I’ve discussed our first setup for a support structure in our company. As I said, this setup is not used anymore due to several reasons. In this blog post, I’ll clarify these reasons and take you in on our second setup of the support structure.
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