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Location-aware search with Apache Lucene and Solr

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:13 +0000

Whether looking for the nearest coffee shop on a GPS-enabled smartphone, nearby friends via a social-networking site, or all trucks within the city delivering a certain product, more and more people and businesses are using location-aware search services. Creating such services has often been the domain of expensive proprietary solutions and geospatial experts. Recently, however, the popular open source search library, Apache Lucene, and the powerful Lucene-powered search server, Apache Solr, have added spatial capabilities. Lucene and Solr committer Grant Ingersoll walks you through the basics of spatial search and shows you how to leverage its capabilities to power your next location-aware application.

‘Balloon boy’ dad Richard Heene starts prison term for hoax

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:09 +0000

A father who orchestrated the ‘balloon boy’ hoax began his 90-day jail sentence yesterday.

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: Low-level Characters to be Purged in Server Merge Preparations

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:07 +0000

In preparing for the upcoming Age of Conan server merges, Funcom has made an announcement that characters below level 20 on inactive accounts (7+ months inactive) will be deleted. Former customers are being informed in advance with via e-mail, in case you want to you know, subscribe to save your poor newbie.

Are we spied upon too much?

admin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:00:08 +0000

THE NEW WEBMAIL service planned by Internet search engine Google was attacked yesterday as nothing more than online snooping.

LOVEFiLM 30 day free trial

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:08 +0000

Tickets can be used at Cineworld, Vue, Showcase, Empire and Odeon cinemas across the UK**.

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: Most Improved Game of 2009

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:07 +0000

The editorial staff here at MMORPG.com has made their decisions, and today we start to unveil the winners of the 2009 MMORPG.com awards by naming our Most Improved Game of 2009.

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: Letter from the Game Director - Dec. ‘09

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:04 +0000

Craig Morrison addresses the community in 2009 one last time with the release of December’s Letter from the Game Director. In the letter, Morrison discusses the 1.06 patch cycle, progress on the Rise of the Godslayer expansion, and takes some time to welcome the Korean players who are currently beta testing the Korean localization of the game.

Dozens injured after jet overshoots runway in torrential rain

admin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:08 +0000

An American Airlines flight from Miami with more than 150 aboard overshot a runway while landing during a heavy rainstorm in Kingston on Tuesday night, injuring more than 40 people, officials said.

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: A Look at Rise of the Godslayer, Part 2

admin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:07 +0000

MMORPG.com Age of Conan correspondent John Humphrey writes this look at Rise of the Godslayer, the upcoming expansion to Funcom’s Age of Conan.

Celebrities bid to be first on new rollercoaster

admin — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:00:08 +0000

The UK’s ultimate rollercoaster is starting a bidding frenzy between celebrities who want to be the first to be seated in the new ride.

How to customize InfoSphere Content Collector form templates

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:11 +0000

With IBM InfoSphere(TM) Content Collector, you can prompt users to add
additional archiving information to e-mail documents before the documents are archived.
The user interfaces that are used to prompt for data are Web 2.0-style Dojo
applications, called forms. This article describes how to customize
forms to integrate with Web services and how to include new user interface elements.
With this knowledge, you can build forms that model advanced use cases that are
tightly integrated with your environment.

WIN: A SONY BRAVIA Z5800 LCD TELEVISION COMPLETE WITH INTEGRATED FREESAT

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:06 +0000

Be the envy of all your friends with the latest 46-inch Sony BRAVIA Z5800, complete with built-in Freesat, this Christmas.

Java development 2.0: Gaelyk for Google App Engine

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:18 +0000

The introduction of the Google App Engine saw a wave of frameworks emerge to facilitate developing applications targeted for it. The Gaelyk framework, one such framework written in Groovy, eases development of lightweight applications that leverage a datastore. And the scalability you can achieve is impressive.

Is Russell Brand wearing Katy Perry’s socks?

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:13 +0000

Russell Brand must be taking fashion advice from his kooky girlfriend Katy Perry by the looks of this outfit.

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: Limited Time Unlimited Free Trial

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:11 +0000

Confused by the headline? Well, this could be a bit of a head scratcher! FilePlanet is offering users the ability to download an unlimited free trial of Age of Conan, but the offer is only good until December 31st, 2009.