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I recently had the opportunity to do a fresh installation of Atlassian Jira and was faced again with how to integrate Jira with LDAP (in this case Active Directory). Jira does support simple authentication integration with LDAP via OSUser but requires that each LDAP user exist in Jira first. So if an LDAP […]

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Round Two of my quest to cluster the Grails Searchable Plugin index with Terracotta! In my first post I outlined my intent to use Terracotta to cluster the Grails Searchable Plugin (Lucene + Compass) using the Lucene RAMDirectory approach. Incidentally, my first attempt failed miserably.
As a quick confidence booster before setting out again, […]

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In my last post I mentioned that one of the options I was considering for clustering the Grails Searchable plugin, though not the preferred option, was to use the JDBCDirectory implementation of Lucene. I had this working in just 15 minutes and though it’s probably not the optimal approach, it is by far the […]

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I’m never surprised by the shear magnitude of stuff I don’t know about. Last week I stumbled upon Hudson as I was searching for help to configure Cruise Control to build and execute tests for my a Grails application. I found this post that introduced me to Hudson and got me started.
Let […]

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One of the main reasons I started this blog was so that I would have a place to “give back” to the software development community. For those that read my blog for more personal updates, you’ll want to stop here. My daily work life depends heavily on open source projects, discussion forums and […]

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