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Lucene IndexSearcher

We launched a new version of one of our websites that was rewritten in Java (formerly in Perl).
The site drains quite a lot of traffic and I had made very few benchmarks during development phase. When I finally started load testing I realized that the site was performing well in the beginning but after [...]

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The Bubble .. again ?

I really don’t get it. Everyday I read about at least one or two new web based services that get funded by venture capitalists.
Almost everytime, I check out the site and try to figure out the business model and needless to say that I rarely find out what it might be …
I really get a [...]

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StringBeans Portal

Hi all,
For one of our customers, we had to recommend and prototype a portal engine. For those of you who know me a little, I use the now famous (at telio at least) “10 minute” test. Here is how it goes :
Phase 1

Cross read the application’s, utility’s, tool’s website and get a first [...]

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Flickr

I’ve been playing with flickr the last few days .. I must say I am impressed with the amount of tools, functionalities, api available. I don’t consider myself to be a dumb user, however I had a hard time finding out how to do simple things, but after a while I found my way around, [...]

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Testing “Performancing” for Firefox

Well this plugin seems to work really well. Install, setup, blog ! You can now blog directly from Firefox ..
You can try it out at http://performancing.com/firefox/
P.

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AJAX Upload progress monitor for Commons-FileUpload Example

Don’t laugh .. I did not get any comments from my previous post (normal, nobody reads this blog except me ), so I decided to take the time to put together a little sample of a Java AJAX file upload progress bar example.
For people who never used DWR, it can also serve as a [...]

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Online again

Well, after shutting down my previous blog (a forced shutdown after a system crash), I finally decided to put a block back up again.
I must say I hesitated since I am not really a blog writing person. When I analyzed all my posts on my previous blog, there were really just bookmarks and never had [...]

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