Just a few days a go elasticsearch released version 1.3.0 of their flagship product. The first one is the most waited for feature called the Top hits aggregation. Basically this is what is called grouping. You want to group certain
Review The Twitter Story by Nick Bilton
A lot of people dream of creating the new Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Nobody knows when they will create it, most of the ideas just came to be big. Personally I do not believe I will ever create such a
Better than something or someone or just good
Recently I saw some tweets about the possibility to finally have a website to express your hate for Eclipse. Since I am a strong believer in another tool than eclipse and I really don’t want to work with eclipse, at
Keeping a journal
Today I was reading the first part of a book I got as a gift from one of my customers. The book is called Show your work by Austin Kleon(Show Your Work! @ Amazon). The whole idea around this book
Using Dropwizard in combination with Elasticsearch
How often do you start creating a new application? How often have you thought about configuring an application. Where to locate a config file, how to load the file, what format to use? Another thing you regularly do is adding
Oh no, more logs, start with logstash
How many posts have you seen about logging? And how many have your read about logging? Recently logging became cool again. Nowadays everybody talks about logstash, elasticsearch and kibana. It feels like everybody is playing with these tools. If you
Setting up keys to sign emails in Samsung’s Android email app
Introduction For almost half a year now, I’ve been the proud owner of a Samsung Galaxy SIII Mini (bought it just before the release of the S4, because my phone died and I couldn’t wait for the S4). Since then
Cloning an OpenSuSE 12.3 virtual machine using GRUB2, VirtualBox and cryptfs
Introduction So I just bought myself a new laptop (an Asus N76VB-T4038H) which I love so far. It’s a great machine and real value for money. Of course it comes preloaded with Windows 8 — which I hate so far,