Community blogging activity: MarkLogic 5, Hadoop, TDD, and more
A bunch of interesting technically-oriented, XQuery- and MarkLogic-related stuff has appeared from our community of developers lately. Below is a summary of what I found.
Excitement around and commentary on the MarkLogic 5 release:
- Micah Dubinko, 5 things to know about MarkLogic 5
- Ryan Semerau, My Three Favorite New Features of MarkLogic 5
- Michael Blakeley, MarkLogic 5.0 — First Look
- Cody Nolden, How to Install MarkLogic 5.0 on Mac OSX (think of this as an "unboxing"; shows just how easy and unscary it is to get started, for any platform really)
- Cody Nolden, MarkLogic Announces a New License: MarkLogic Express (how Cody was re-inspired to pursue his startup idea)
Hadoop-related posts:
- Alex Bleasdale, First steps with the MarkLogic Hadoop Connector
- Alex Bleasdale, Next steps with the MarkLogic Hadoop Connector
- Edd Patterson, MarkLogic 5.0 and Hadoop
A couple posts on the burgeoning topic of test-driven development in MarkLogic:
- Jake Trent, Test-driven Development on MarkLogic
- David Cassel, TDD with XQuery
Dave Cassel has been prolific lately, so he gets his own list:
- MarkLogic on $40 per month (using Amazon EC2, etc.)
- Modules databases versus the file system (when to use one or the other)
- Element constructors: computed and direct (when to use one or the other)
- Exceptional code (on the appropriate and inappropriate uses of try/catch)
- Meaningful XML (on designing XML that works well with MarkLogic's indexes)
- An XQuery sequence question (how positional predicates work)
- Word query specification (how to configure word query index settings)
- Queries and Updates (how MarkLogic distinguishes between the two)
Also, Michael Blakeley has been busy writing code:
- XQUT - Unit Testing in Pure XQuery
- Rebalancing for CoRB
- Yet another search parser - XQYSP
- Group By in XQuery 1.0 for MarkLogic Server
If you blog about MarkLogic (or are planning to), let me know and I'll keep an eye out for interesting posts that would be helpful to the Community.
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