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March 5, 2014

The following is an interview of DataScouting’s General Manager, Stavros Vologiannidis (SV), by FIBEP Marketing and Communications Commission. The full interview can be found in here. MarComm: ...

PaladorScheduler

February 26, 2014

PaladorScheduler A job scheduler for large scale data processing (more info at datascouting.com).   DataScouting PaladorScheduler is a software ecosystem for scheduling, distributing, processing...

Easy server virtualization using virtualbox

February 14, 2014

There are several commercial and open source virtualization solutions ranging from small to large enterprises. In this post I will describe the process of installing a debian based headless server th...

Highlighting Annotations in SolrJ

June 10, 2013

Recently in work, we had to use the Solr Indexer when creating a RESTful API in Java using the JAX-RS specification. Solr provides wrappers around its API calls for a variety of programming languages...

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

April 14, 2008

In other words, how to rent an army of slaves on demand. Quoting from Amazon Web Services (emphasis mine): Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence. The Mecha...

Trac, SVN quick howto on a linux Debian

April 10, 2008

In the following, I will present a mini guide to setup Trac 0.10.3 and SVN services on a Linux Debian stable. I needed a per project authentication both in trac and in svn. I just finished it, seems ...

Text Analysis inside Lucene

April 1, 2008

Lucene (http://lucene.apache.org) is a well-known Informational Retrieval (IR) library, implemented in Java, which allows you to add powerful indexing and searching capabilities to your application. ...

Scientific Workplace και Ελληνικά

March 23, 2008

Το Scientific workplace είναι ένα πολύ καλό εμπορικό front-end για το Latex. Θα περιγράψουμε ένα τρόπο να γράψουμε ελληνικά με το Scientific Workplace που βασίζεται στο omega του Γιάννη Χαραλάμπους. ...

Remote Procedure Calls in GWT

March 20, 2008

From google GWT RPC makes it easy for the client and server to pass Java objects back and forth over HTTP. When used properly, RPCs give you the opportunity to move all of your UI logic to the client...

Open-source scripting environment Komodo Edit 4.3

March 17, 2008

 http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080316-hands-on-open-source-scripting-environment-komodo-edit-4-3.html http://www.activestate.com/Products/komodo_ide/komodo_edit.mhtml The free and open sourc...