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(August 1, 2003 6:56AM PT)

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		Lucene Intro: Lucene is a high-performance, scalable, search engine technology. The first part of this article takes you through an example of using Lucene to index all the text files in a directory and its subdirectories. The remainder provides examples of analysis and searching. » Read more (Jul 30, 2003)

		A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy: "You cannot completely separate technical and social issues." This is one of the fundamental underlying principles in Clay Shirkey's essay A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy. This essay looks understanding the balance of a group and the individuals that make it up and then outlines the requirements of producing software designed to support group interaction. » Read more (Jul 24, 2003)

Also Today

Continuous Performance: A Best Practice to Ensure Faster Code: The typical advice for addressing performance is to get it right then make it faster. Cliff Sharples recommends the opposite. He suggests that you "test performance at least nightly" in his DevX article Continuous Performance: A Best Practice to Ensure Faster Code. If performance requirements are important, they should be in the requirements definition and the progress of the project can be measured against these requirements. [DevX]
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Javapedia: DefaultVersusNoArgumentConstructor: A recent addition to the Javapedia is this entry on DefaultVersusNoArgumentConstructor. The author finds it important to make a distinction between a default constructor and a no argument constructor. Add to the discussion or create your own wiki pages on related topics.
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