May 18, 2012
Building Dynamic BBCode Into Your XML Blogs
Category: Presenting ContentI love XML. Sometimes, however, there are times where XML can become rather cumbersome to work with – for instance, try writing a book sometimes on HTML and SVG using DocBook (something I’m currently undertaking for O’Reilly Press). The amount …
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Elegant “contentEditable” Solution for XML
Category: ECM & Portals, Generic Tags: HTML5, MarkLogic, WYSIWYG-editing, XML, XQuery, XSLTIf you’ve ever wanted to do WYSIWYG editing of XML in a browser, I think you’re going to like the elegant solution I stumbled across. The idea actually culminated from reading Kurt Cagle’s excitement around XQuery in the Browser, and …
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Hello, World
Category: Generic“Hello … Hello? Is this thing on? Testing … 1 2 3 …” Joining a company is always an interesting experience, one that I find tends to change somewhat as I get older, but that nonetheless has a very definite …
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Auto-Complete in MarkLogic Server
Category: Search Tags: autocomplete, MarkLogic, performance, search, user-experienceIt Must Be Insanely Fast and Meet the Requirements Auto-complete is hard to optimize because: we’re searching on partial-words, but search engines are not optimized for that queries happen on each keystroke, so expect five to ten times your normal …
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Realtime Push with MarkLogic and Node.js via Websockets
Category: Generic Tags: MarkLogic, websocketsMarkLogic has an awesome alerting feature that enables you to trigger an event when new or updated database content matches certain criteria. Once a rule’s criteria is met, an action is triggered that executes an arbitrary XQuery module. You can …
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Installing MarkLogic on an EC2 Micro Instance – Free for 1 year!
Category: Cloud Computing, Generic Tags: EC2, MarkLogic[HTML2] Perhaps you’ve heard about Amazon EC2′s new promotion, the AWS Free Usage Tier. New AWS customers can run a Linux Micro instance free for 1 year. Micro Instances consist of 613 MB of memory, up to 2 ECUs (for …
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My First Experience with Amazon EC2
Category: Cloud Computing Tags: cloud-computing, EC2A client needed a prototype server that was low cost, had potential to scale, and whose management could easily be transferred. We needed a single linux-based server that we could turn on and off for security and to control cost. …
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Yes, Faceted Search for Mobile is Possible
Category: Search Tags: autocomplete, facetedsearch, MarkLogic, mobile, unified_search_platform, uspFaceted Search is recognized as a powerful search experience enhancement, easy enough for even novice users to filter large result sets. As I’ve seen the increasing importance of mobile computing, I’ve struggled with how to fit facets on smaller mobile …
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Scalable Search Auto-Complete
Category: Search Tags: autocomplete, MarkLogic, scalabilityFor us search integrators, auto-complete is one of our most enjoyable challenges. But make no mistake, implementing scalable search auto-complete can be a challenge. Search Auto-Complete (aka instant search, find-as-you-type, look-ahead, predictive search, and many other names) is becoming more …
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