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Tonight I headed down to the Springs for the first meeting of the Colorado Springs Open Source Software Meetup Group. I learned about the group from this post on the Atlassian developer blog. Though it was a bit slow tonight, overall it was a good event and I think it will develop into […]

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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 on a quest to figure out how to cluster the Grails Searchable plugin that’s based on Lucene/Compass across multiple nodes with as little intrusion and in a way that’s as turnkey as possible. I’m in immediate need of a solution, and I think it would be a good contribution to the Searchable plugin.
To […]

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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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