If you've read my post about the latest rewrite of this site, you know that the search engine working in the background here is Solr, an opensource search server originally developed by CNet. During that migration I kind of learnt the basics of working with it on its own (without some of the fancy wrappers that do the whole configuration for you by looking at your model layer) but the schema.xml still was kind of scary to me. So when Packt gave me with "Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server" by David Smiley and Eric Pugh - once again - the chance to review a book about something that I wanted to learn, I couldn't resist :-)
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Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server
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Eine Python-Usergroup für Graz
Irgendwie ist es seltsam. Graz ist eine Studentenstadt und auch in technischer Hinsicht mit Einrichtungen wie Joanneum Research und der TU-Graz nicht von schlechten Eltern. Aber so richtig viele Entwickler-Usergroups habe ich noch nicht gesehen. Soweit ich gehört habe, gabs zwar einmal Bestrebungen, da auch eine Usergroup für Python ins Leben zu rufen, aber das ist scheinbar im Sand verlaufen. Zumindest konnte ich bis jetzt nur eine Gruppe in Wien finden.
Auf der DjangoCon.eu traf ich Dorian Santner und gemeinsam mit Armin Ronacher meinten wir dann auch, wir könnten es zumindest einmal versuchen, eine Python-Usergroup in der steirischen Landeshauptstadt aufzubauen. Eine Mailinglist gibt es schon einmal und wir suchen noch nach Vorschlägen für einen Stammtisch (so als ersten Schritt).
Eine Usergroup macht natürlich nur dann Sinn, wenn es auch User gibt. Falls du also Interesse hast, bitte melde dich bei der Mailinglist an und mach mit!
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EuroPython 2010 Schedule announced
Primary link: www.europython.eu
And finally there is a timetable available for this year's EuroPython conference in Birmingham this July. And it will be quite packed: Four days full of talks about tools like eventlet and twisted and literally a whole day for testing techniques alone :D But not only are the topics great, the list of speakers is highly impressive as well with Guido van Rossum, Mark Ramm, Raymond Hettinger and Andrew Godwin, just to name a few. Combined with an awesome venue and two sprint days this is going to be a truly great week :-)
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Book review: Hacking Vim 7.2
First a short disclaimer : I received a review copy of this book by Packt, which is really nice of them.
For the last couple of years I've been using Vim more or less constantly without actually getting all that deep into it. My whole configuration is a collection of (a) stuff I found on the web and (b) what I could hack together myself after looking at some examples and the documentation for less than an hour. For some reason I simply never could find the time to actually read the documentation.
So when Swati Viswanathan of Packt Publishing asked if I'd like to review a book about hacking up Vim, at first I was pretty undecided. I have virtually no knowledge about the extensibility of that awesome piece of software except for what is in my configuration. But then I read the description of Hacking Vim 7.2 by Kim Schulz and thought this might be finally the right time for getting into it for real ;-)
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