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Mike McCandless, a search expert who does a lot of work with Lucene wrote about what he found in this mit paper about extracting side effect info from online health forums: http://…

Several manual promotions to the frontpage of HN for ReadWriteWeb this week. Did they pay HN for this kind of exposure?

Is jQuery (and all of its plugins) a comparable replacement for a component library (and component model) provided via something like JSF, Vaadin or the components available in Fle…

The Django-Users Google Group is extremely active: http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?lnk=srg Highly active mailing list.

Last week, I was ticked off by the behavior of a colleague: he complained the duplicated code panel in Sonar was not explicite enough. When I remarked he could give feedback to the…

Running a start up is about being efficient with resources. Those folks that would spend $20,000 in labor costs or opportunity costs to get out of paying $1,200 for a production li…

Bixo Labs shows how it's using Solr as a NoSQL solution for big data.

A short intro to the search utility, Apache Solr, followed by a ton of examples for how its being used. For your inspiration.

Simple freeware for generating UMLs and class diagrams spesifclly.

Another great idea inspired by DZone.com http://java.dzone.com/articles/if-you-could-only-learn-3

Looks like ReadWriteWeb is looking to DZone for inspiration. Amazing how my article about some 'old news' generated so many spinoffs. http://java.dzone.com/rust_language

In this sporcle quiz, you'll be given the name(s) of the developer(s) who initiated the creation of a programming language. Can you guess which programming language they created?

One runtime to unite them all.

A list of blogs from the leaders in the Java community about today's news about Oracle suing Google. What does it mean for Java? They'll tell you.

Obviously ajkirwin is better at deeper reading than you are because Gruber is basically saying the iPhone 4 is unassailable technically. He blames everything on a white lie that Ap…

I know. Could John Gruber suck Apple's dick any harder?