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New iPad Features in iOS 6

by Renee J. Valdez | February 2013 | Open Source

This article created by Renee J. Valdez, author of Instant New iPad Features in iOS 6 How-to offers a break down of the apps that come natively installed on the new iPad.

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Getting started with Bacula

by Eugene Pankov | February 2013 | Open Source

The author of the book Network Backup with Bacula How-To, Eugene Pankov, explains how to set up the simplest Bacula Director and Bacula Storage installations and how the bconsole utility can be used to monitor and interact with daemons through this article.

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So, what is Spring for Android?

by Anthony Dahanne | February 2013 | Open Source

This article, by Anthony Dahanne author of Instant Spring for Android Starter provides a brief overview of how Spring for Android has an extension of the Spring Framework that helps to simplify the development of native Android applications.

Its current Version 1.0.0.RELEASE features a REST client, RestTemplate and OAuth, an authorization protocol (Spring Social) to help you build your apps.

In this article, we will go through the main aspects of Spring for Android: RestTemplate, Auth, and what Spring for Android is not.

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Types of services in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012

by Kenny Saelen Klaas Deforche | February 2013 | Enterprise Articles Microsoft

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 already provides a number of services out-of-the-box. These services together with additional services that can be developed can be divided into three types. Each of the service types has its own characteristics and a different approach to create them.

This article by Klaas Deforche and Kenny Saelen authors of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Services discusses about these services in detail.

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Apache Solr Configuration

by Rafał Kuć | February 2013 | Cookbooks

Setting up an example Solr instance is not a hard task, at least when setting up the simplest configuration. The simplest way is to run the example provided with the Solr distribution, that shows how to use the embedded Jetty servlet container.

In this article by Rafal Kuc, author of Apache Solr 4 Cookbook , we will cover the following topics:

  • Running Solr on Jetty

  • Running Solr on Apache Tomcat

  • Installing a standalone ZooKeeper

  • Clustering your data

  • Choosing the right directory implementation

  • Configuring spellchecker to not use its own index

  • Solr cache configuration

  • How to fetch and index web pages

We have a simple configuration, simple index structure described by the schema.xml file, and we can run indexing.

In this article you'll see how to configure and use the more advanced Solr modules; you'll see how to run Solr in different containers and how to prepare your configuration to different requirements. You will also learn how to set up a new SolrCloud cluster and migrate your current configuration to the one supporting all the features of SolrCloud. Finally, you will learn how to configure Solr cache to meet your needs and how to pre-sort your Solr indexes to be able to use early query termination techniques efficiently.

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