An interesting find by Matt and some coaxing lead me to implementing the MIT Simile Timeline project found at http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/, the website also provides an API for the few functions Timeline has. I use timeline in my actitime-rc project to track when emails are being sent.  This is nice for people...

The folks at Spring have made it extremely easy to allow your application authenticate and authorize users with Spring LDAP. This blog entry explains how to check your directory structure and use some sparsely documented Spring LDAP parameters ({0} and {1}) to get everything working. In your Spring Security configuration,...

I recently sat through several vendor demos for a partner who is in the market for a health care claims administration platform. These systems are large ticket items and the vendors ranged from large and well entrenched vendors with years of experience in the market to small and relatively new...

Overview Red Hat Cluster Suite provides high availability and clustered storage for RHEL platforms. Unfortunately the configuration management for each node can be tedious as the /etc/cluster/cluster.conf file must be copied to each as changes are made.  Conga makes life a little simpler. http://sourceware.org/cluster/conga/ Conga provides a client/server architecture for cluster...

I just started here at Source Allies (loving it here so far, btw!) and inherited an aging code base to resurrect. It was originally deployed on Tomcat 5 and one of the issues I encountered upgrading to Tomcat 6 was strict quote escaping. The code base has lots of JSPs with...

Keeping with SAI’s proclivity toward open source software, I present to you Vyatta. Vyatta is a small company with the goal of taking down Cisco by offering an open source router that can run on standard x86 hardware. With the prevalence of virtualization, one could realistically open a branch office using just...

Every individual has experienced the kind of day in which they struggle to be motivated. Think back to when you last experienced a day like this. Did you have a hard time getting up out of bed? Take a little longer to get to work? Go out of your normal...

This is a follow-up blog to Matt’s earlier post on Open Source Enterprise Search We all love Google don’t we? Right from searching the web or the company intranet to searching internal source code, we just “google” everything. Now, won’t it be more fun to do by yourself what Google...

Solr is a standalone enterprise search server with a web-services like API. You put documents in it (called “indexing”) via XML over HTTP. You query it via HTTP GET and receive XML results. Some of the main features of Solr are: Advanced Full-Text Search Capabilities Facilitates Faceted browsing: Narrowing down...

Nutch is a framework for building web-scale crawlers and search applications. It is free and Open Source and uses Lucene for the search and index component. Nutch is built on top of Lucene adding functionality to efficiently crawl the web or intranet. Now the most obvious question is “Why Nutch...