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Using Solr / Lucene for full text search with MySQL DB

Posted on 05/14/09 19 Comments

Solr is a standalone webservice application that can be installed on any servlet container like tomcat, jetty etc.  It uses the popular Lucene java library to provide enterprise level search results from databases, filesystem, web services etc.    Solr runs as a web service, so in effect it provides a cross platform search engine.  The results [...]

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’Cabot Trail’ in Munnar!

Posted on 05/11/09 No Comments

I am not sure if the road to Munnar can be compared to the famous North American Shore drive, Cabot Trail, but this past weekend, there was surely some Cabot in the air at Munnar where our team headed out for a fun team building trip. The trip has been long in the planning and [...]

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Follow us on Twitter..

Posted on 05/01/09 No Comments

Yes, we are on twitter now as cabotsolutions. Out twitter url is http://www.twitter.com/cabotsolutions/

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PHP development with SVN using Eclipse PDT and Subclipse in Ubuntu 8.10

Posted on 05/01/09 No Comments

Eclipse’s PDT project provides an excellent development tool for LAMP developers.  It provides  great features like code completion, zend debugger,  error checking and all the goodness that comes with default eclipse package.   One of the nice things that PDT lacks out of the box is SVN support.  This can be easily achieved using subclipse plugin [...]

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Getting Openfire Groups to work with Zimbra OpenLDAP Authentication

Posted on 04/10/09 2 Comments

Its quite easy to get openfire and spark messenger to authenticate with Zimbra’s OpenLDAP by selecting OpenLDAP directory server during initial openfire setup.  One of the biggest drawbacks is that the groups feature will not be available.  Group feature is important for enterprises with large number of users and wnat to provide preset groups in [...]

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5 best practices we use in our Joomla builds.

Posted on 03/08/09 No Comments

We have started to standardise certain practices on all our Joomla builds.  These are aimed to increase security, usability and seo of the site. 1. Enable SEF. This is to provide search engine friendly URLS that is human readable and also better for Search engine optimisation rather than Joomla’s default cryptic URLs.    Joomla 1.5 provides [...]

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25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors.

Posted on 01/13/09 No Comments

The US National Security Agency (SANS – www.sans.org) had recently put out a list of top 25 most dangerous programming errors that could expose your applications to cyber criminals. Most of them can be prevented by following best practices in coding and design.    Every development team should cross check their coding practices to ensure most [...]

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We are Hiring!

Posted on 12/14/08 No Comments

Cabot is in a growth phase and we are looking for some good talented individuals with a can-do attitude to join our team.  We have openings for Senior LAMP Developers, Flex and ActionScript Developers and Project Managers.    Take a look at our careers page for more details. If you are a Java Developer with strong [...]

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