When I started with my Android application, I had the idea to create a home screen and an action bar just like one of the Android developers described in a blog item. I was really helped by the source code of the Google I/O Schedule app. In this post I will explain how I used […]
Lucene indexing gains concurrency
Imagine you are a Kindergarten teacher and a whole bunch of kids are playing with lego. Suddenly it’s almost 4pm and the big mess needs to be cleaned up, so you ask each kid to pick up one lego brick and put it in your hands. They all run around, bringing bricks to you one […]
Axon Framework 1.0 released!
It has been an exciting year. Little over a year ago, I started developing a framework to make it easier for developers to implement a highly scalable en extensible architecture. The first public Axon release (0.3) came out in April 2010, and was far from feature complete. Now, almost a year later, Axon has proven […]
Using Google Geocoding API with Geocoder
I was looking for a way to retrieve latitude and longitude for a given address. I thought that Google could provide me with a solution and eventually it did. First I was looking at the Google Data API, but found that some parts were deprecated and not supported anymore. The Google Geocoding API, that is […]
How to cluster Seinfeld episodes with Mahout
This february I gave a talk on Mahout clustering at FOSDEM 2011 where I demonstrated how to cluster Seinfeld episodes. A few people wanted to know how to run this example so I write up a short blog about it. In just a few minutes you can run the Seinfeld demo on your own machine.
Gimme all resources you have – I can use them!
Exploiting full IO and CPU concurrency when indexing with Apache Lucene During the last year Apache Lucene has been improved an extreme amount with outstanding improvements such as 100 times faster FuzzyQueries, new Term-Dictionary implementation, enhanced Segment-Merging and the famous Flexible-Indexing API. Recently I started working on another fundamental change referred to as DocumentsWriterPerThread, an […]
Debugging the dreaded “SEVERE: Error listenerStart” and “SEVERE: Error filterStart” tomcat error messages
Just a quick post that I hope might benefit others. If you have been developing web applications on tomcat for a while you have likely come the two error messages mentioned in the title. SEVERE: Error listenerStart Occurs when an exception is thrown in the contextInitialized method of a ServletContextListener SEVERE: Error filterStart Occurs when an […]
Getting GWT to work with Servlet 3 Async Requests
For one of our projects, we use a GWT client that needs to be updated in near-real time (< 1 second delay) when something relevant happens on the server. There are multiple ways of doing it, but I tried to get it working with the new Servlet 3 feature: Asynchronous Http Request handling. Read on […]
Using Hamcrest Matchers.everyItem
For my Junit test I wanted to make use of Matchers.everyItem so I could easily check if every item of a list machtes a certain matcher. Resulting in a small line of code which is nice to read.
Mahout at FOSDEM 2011 DataDevRoom
Last saturday, february 5th, FOSDEM 2011 hosted the DataDevRoom where talks were given on topics surrounding data analysis with free and open source software. I was there and gave an introductory talk on clustering with Apache Mahout. In case you missed the conference, read on to learn about some of the talks or checkout the […]