http://www.solutionhacker.com This blog provides solutions for enterpreneurs! Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:54:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Memory Management One strength of the Java™ 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE™) is that it performs automatic memory management, thereby shielding the developer from the complexity of explicit memory management. However, it doesn't mean that there will not be any memory leak. So, I decide to give a summary on some key ... http://www.solutionhacker.com/2008/09/22/java-system-architecture-resources-links/ When we talk about SOA, I would think of Amazon. It is the company that takes SOA to the next level, proving to the world that it is a viable solution for us. Great! I decide to put sometime to learn from Amazon via reviewing the web services it ... http://www.solutionhacker.com/2008/09/07/amazon-web-service-solutions/ There are 2 main focuses I will take to analyze a database. First, I will find out how it manages the data. Second, I will look at how it scales in term of data volume and traffics. Today, I will talk about the most common indexing scheme that most of ... http://www.solutionhacker.com/2008/08/24/database-performance-indexing/ Recently I have come across a great book named "Even Buffett Isn't Perfect" that talks about Warren Buffett. What makes this book differentiates from the others is that it is not simply a love letter of Warren but an objective analysis of what contributes to Warren's success. Below are the ... http://www.solutionhacker.com/2008/08/09/secret-of-warren-buffett/ Introduction There were 2 main XML parsing technologies few years ago. They were SAX and DOM. SAX is event-driven and the events are fired and forget along the xml parsing. Advantages: It doesn't need to cache the whole xml document in memory and you don't need to wait ... http://www.solutionhacker.com/2008/07/16/evolution-of-xml-parsing-technologies/ Salesforce + Google It is good news to hear that Salesforce.com has made Google Data API available on its platform. To further understand the full potential of the new platform, I have googled around to see whether anyone has talked about it, here is the first article I found that covers ... http://www.solutionhacker.com/2008/07/11/salesforcecom-opens-up-google-data-api/ Introduction of Solr Solr is a standalone enterprise search server with a web-services like API. You put documents in it (called "indexing") via XML over HTTP (RESTful). You query it via HTTP GET and receive XML results. Advanced Full-Text Search Capabilities Optimized for High ... http://www.solutionhacker.com/2008/07/06/powerful-full-text-search-part-3-solr/ Introduction of Nutch & Hadoop After Lucene, the author created another powerful tool. Its name is Nutch. Nutch is a powerful crawler built on top of the Lucene. With Nutch, you can launch a multi-threaded crawler to obtain information from the Net. At this point of writing, Nutch is in its ... http://www.solutionhacker.com/2008/07/06/powerful-full-text-search-part-2-nutch/ Introduction of Lucene I have heard of Lucene and its powerful full text search capability many times. Today, I decide to take a look at it. Before I dive into the user guide, I went to Google Tech Talk to find a video related to Lucene first. Here is what I ... http://www.solutionhacker.com/2008/07/04/powerful-full-text-search-engine-lucene-part-1/ Introduction from Cameron Purdy   ShareThis http://www.solutionhacker.com/2008/07/03/grid-computing-part-1-introduction/