We've seen some good blogging activity once again over the last couple of months. These posts are all worth checking out. I've categorized them below to help you decide where you want to look first.

Sample apps & tutorials:

• Tutorial: XQuery 3D KML Histograms (Dave Erickson)
• Where in the world: a year in travel (Norm Walsh)
• Tutorial: Mobile Shakespeare (Part 1) (Dave Erickson)
• Tutorial: Mobile Shakespeare (Part 2 – The Reskin)
• Tutorial: Mobile Shakespeare (Part 3 – Adding Search)
• Database Indexes for The Inquisitive Mind (Nuno Job)

Pro tips:

• Turn OFF Automatic Directory Creation (Dave Erickson)
• MarkLogic XQuery performance tuning – computing facets concurrently (Rob Whitby)
• Geo Reverse Query Performance (Dave Erickson)
• XQuery and HTML5 (Dave Erickson)
• XQuery Injection Mea Culpa (Dave Erickson)

Maps in MarkLogic:

• Map Maker, Map Maker, Make Me a Map! (Kurt Cagle)
• Maps and Profiling Performance (Dave Erickson)

Modeling/MVC:

• Models in XQuery (Dave Cassel)
• Resurgence of MVC in XQuery (Micah Dubinko)

Tools:

• xray – an XQuery test framework (Rob Whitby)
• Conditional Profiling for MarkLogic (Michael Blakeley)
• XMLSH v 1.1.8 (David Lee)
• Sneak Peak: ImageMagick in MarkLogic (Dave Cassel)

Recipes:

• Code for translating content using Google Translate (Ryan Semerau)
• MarkLogic: Using XCC/J to pass content to an installed Module (Alex Bleasdale)
• Hosting multiple MarkLogic app servers on port 80 (Dave Erickson)

As always, let me know if you're a technical blogger interested in MarkLogic, so we can include your latest & greatest in these community updates.