Coldfusion (CFML) on Open BlueDragon v1.2 and Tomcat

Being on a open source crusade in 2010, I’d like to introduce Open BlueDragon to CFML developers. I have been programming, yes writing code, in CFML for the past 7 years. This is a bit of a rant since ColdFusion as a “programming language” was dropped from the Tiobe index more than two years ago [...]

Indexing data with Solr 1.4 from Microsoft SQL Server

With Solr you can index text documents, as well as database records, where each row is treated as a document. To connect to Microsoft SQL Server, I downloaded the Java (type 4) JDBC 3.0 driver for Microsoft SQL Server (6.5, 7, 2000, 2005 and 2008) from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jtds/files/jtds/1.2.5/jtds-1.2.5-dist.zip/download Unzip the contents of the download. Locate the [...]

Installing and Running Solr 1.4 on Windows / Tomcat

Installing and Running Solr 1.4 on your local machine for testing is as easy as pie. Here I am going cover the steps needed to get Solr running on Tomcat 6.0 on a Windows machine. In our production environment we run Solr on Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition in Tomcat as the servlet container, but that’s [...]