How to set up and exploit an Apache Solr environment on Amazon EC2
What’s Solr? Solr is an open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic...
View ArticleGetting started with Amazon DynamoDB
What’s Amazon DynamoDB? DynamoDB is one of the most recent services offered by Amazon.com. Announced on January 18, 2012, it is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and...
View ArticleHow to deploy your web app to Amazon EC2 using Capistrano
What is Capistrano? Capistrano is an open source tool mainly used to deploy web applications from source code management (SCM) to one or more servers. The aim of this guide is showing how to easily...
View ArticleA Lightweight jQuery Notification Bar
Notifying users with quick messages and alerts in a website is one of the most recurring needs of a web developer. Every time I need to implement something like that, I start looking around the web...
View ArticleServer-side pagination with AngularJS
AngularJS is one of the most used Javascript frameworks nowadays. A characteristic of this framework is the possibility of binding input or output parts of an HTML page to a model represented by...
View ArticleHow to create a rake cron job in Heroku
A few weeks ago I had to deal with setting up a cron job that periodically updated some db tables of a Ruby on Rails application running on Heroku. Here’s a brief step-by-step tutorial to make your...
View ArticleSome Hints on Unity Facebook Integration
Social media has nowadays become a key aspect of every application, especially when it comes to games. Below you can find an easy tutorial on how to speed up development when integrating Facebook into...
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