Java: An Improved try-catch-finally Idiom
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In Java, exceptional problems not normally part of program logic are handled by using Exceptions....
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Distributed Lock using Zookeeper
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On my project we have a number of software components that run concurrently, some on...
Activities vs. Fragments in Android
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Android API version 3.0, known as Honeycomb, introduced a new concept called "fragments". What are...
ZooKeeper and HBase presentation slides
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Last Friday (April 27, 2012) I gave a presentation on Apache ZooKeeper and a lightning...
Integral Image for Faster Image Processing
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Recently, I was looking into computer vision related technologies. One of the interesting techniques is...
An Introduction to Blur
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Blur is a new Apache 2.0 licensed software project that provides a search capability built...
Gradle Class July 18-20 by Tim Berglund
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Near Infinity is proud to host a new Gradle Expert Training class, taught by Tim...
Lucene Thrift and Ruby
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This post is going to demonstrate thrift usage by searching a Lucene index from Ruby....
Monitoring JMS Resources Using WebLogic MBeans
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Recently, I needed to enhance some existing code to apply optional filters when retrieving the...
Hadoop Presentation at NOVA/DC Java Users Group
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Last Thursday (on Cinco de Mayo) I gave a presentation on Hadoop and Hive at...
Lucene Compression
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For a number of years I have used Lucene for both search and data storage....
Seam, Resteasy, and Capturing Incoming REST Requests
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So...I embarked upon a task the other day to ensure that all REST traffic coming...
What's in JDK 7 Lightning Talk Slides
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Yesterday at the Near Infinity 2011 Spring Conference I gave a talk on CoffeeScript (see...
Inheriting Annotations on Java Methods
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As is clearly stated in the @Inherited meta annotation docs here, you can't inherit annotations...
Introducing RJava
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You've no doubt heard about JRuby, which lets you run Ruby code on the JVM....