Cleaning up your maven repository
A few days a go I was looking at a warning that my disk was getting to full. I just upgraded to apple osx lion. There were a few things that were related to the upgrade, but another large directory was...
View ArticleGather content for Lucene from WordPress using Groovy
I am learning about the capabilities of Lucene. Here at JTeam we have a few people that are specialized in Search using technology like Lucene and Solr. Therefore I want to have a higher level of...
View ArticleEmbedding RSS in Hippo using the pipelines feature
For one of the biggest Hippo projects I have been working on, we have created a custom rss solution. When we started the project, Hippo did not have an rss solution and we had some requirements for...
View ArticleRunning Hippo CMS from Intellij
For a number of years we are doing hippo development using our beloved tool "Intellij". We can import the project using the pom. Deploying from within Intellij was done using the maven provided jetty...
View ArticleUsing the spring-data project and the mongodb adapter specifically
In this blog post I want to share some of my experiences with the spring-data project. At Orange11 we have been working on a sample for the Axon Framework. We have created the Axon Trader. For the...
View ArticleBasic Health check library for your application
For a few years now I have been running multiple Hippo projects. All the projects use multiple servers and services. The biggest one has over 15 servers in production. A standard hippo solution...
View ArticleGetting inspired by GOTO Amsterdam
Last Thursday and Friday I went to GOTO Amsterdam. This event was co-organized by Orange11 just like last year. One of the best parts about going to conferences is that they are not only interesting...
View ArticleAuthenticate against a hippo repository using spring security
Within a number of my projects we use Hippo to create a website. Hippo contains a JackRabbit repository that has capabilities for authenticating and authorizing users. Hippo builds on this...
View ArticleAnd that was Devoxx 2012, partnering with 10gen and a lot of knowledge gaining
Last week a couple of my colleagues and I were in Antwerp visiting the Devoxx conference. In this blog post we try to give you an idea about what we did & learned: The sessions I attended a lot of...
View ArticleBasic Axon Framework sample using vert.x and angular.js
Some people on the Axon Framework mailing list were asking for more basic samples, preferably using something like vert.x. Since I am familiar with Axon as well as vert.x I thought I could help out....
View ArticleIntroducing a Query tool as an Elasticsearch plugin (part 1)
In the past few weeks I have been working with Elasticsearch. I was missing a plugin to look at the data, create queries and evaluate different facets. That was when I decided to start working on a...
View ArticleAngularJS: Lessons learned
At Devoxx 2012 I attended the AngularJS presentation by Igor Minar and Misko Hevery. I was very enthusiastic about the capabilities of this front-end framework. Therefore I started experimenting with...
View ArticleIntroducing a Query tool as an Elasticsearch plugin (part 2)
In the first part of this series of blogs on Introducing a Query as an Elasticsearch plugin, I described the functionality of a query tool I also discussed the functionality of the tool as the...
View ArticleMy impressions at GOTO Amsterdam 2013
A few weeks a go I attended the GOTO conference in Amsterdam. One of the reasons I like to go to conferences is to meet people I haven't seen for a while, talk about technology and other stuff. The...
View ArticleImproved search for Hippo CMS websites using ElasticSearch
We have done multiple big Hippo projects. A regular Hippo project consists of multiple components like the website, the content management system and a repository for the documents. In most of the...
View ArticleUse Kibana to analyze your images
If you are reading some technical blogs, maybe about search or data analysis, chances are big you have read about Kibana. You have seen stories about how easy it is to use. Most of the blogging...
View ArticleEvaluating elasticsearch and marvel on the raspberry pi
The past years I have been working with search solutions, mostly elasticsearch. During this time a bought myself a raspberry pi and installed java and elasticsearch on it. Then I put it in the closet...
View ArticleCreating an advanced Kibana dashboard using a script
Some time ago, Kibana joined the elasticsearch family. A lot of good things have come out of it. These days Kibana is becoming more advanced. But with more users also come more demands. One of those...
View ArticleBerlin buzzwords 2014
Last week was the week of the Berlin Buzzwords conference. For those of you that do not know it, Buzzwords is one of the best conferences about search, scale and store (read: big data). Next to having...
View ArticleAngularJS directives for C3.js chart library
For one of our projects we wanted to create some nice charts. Feels like something you often want but do not do because it takes to much time. This time we really needed it. I had prior experience...
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