Reading Apache Maven 2 Effective Implementation

Reading Apache Maven 2 Effective Implementation

Thanks to Amit Sharma (of Packt Publishing), I recently got a copy of Apache Maven 2 Effective Implementation authored by Brett Porter and Maria Odea Ching.

The book has proven to be an interesting read so far (even for an advanced maven user), covering a lot of important (and sometimes little known) plugins. Its best practices chapter along with the real-life advices/tips that are found throughout the book are a must read. On the other hand, I would really have liked to see a chapter or appendix covering maven support in IDEs + I must admit don’t have much of respect for Archiva (that’s based on a few weeks interaction i had with it 3 years ago – perhaps things have improved?) which is covered in detail in the book, along with Continuum.

Anyway, expect a complete review soon.

Streaming Schedule of ApacheCon Hadoop, HTTP Server, and Lucene Track

Streaming Schedule of ApacheCon Hadoop, HTTP Server, and Lucene Track
Starting in less than 24 hours and for the next 4 days there’s ApacheCon. Don’t miss the live streaming from http://streaming.linux-magazin.de/en/program-apachecon-us-2009.htm . Here’s the schedule (times in UTC):

Wednesday, 04 November 2009: Hadoop Track
  17:00 Opening Plenary & State of the Feather
       William A. Rowe, Jr. & Jim Jagielski
 
  17:30 Apache Pioneer's Panel
       Moderated by Brian Behlendorf
 
  19:00 Introduction to Apache Hadoop
       Owen O'Malley
 
  19:30 2009 State of the Elephant
       Christophe Bisciglia
 
  21:30 Becoming a Pig Developer
       Alan Gates
 
  22:30 Apache Hadoop in the Cloud
       Tom White
 
  00:00 Practical HBase
       Michael Stack
 
  01:00 Apache Hive: SQL and Data warehousing on Apache Hadoop
       Ashish Thusoo
 
Thursday, 05 November 2009: HTTP Track

  17:00 Munging URLs with mod_rewrite
       Rich Bowen
 
  18:00 Hardening Enterprise Apache Installations Against Attacks
       Sander Temme
 
  19:30 Keynote: Standing Out in the Crowd
       Kirrily Robert
 
  22:00 Scalable Internet Architectures
       Theo Schlossnagle
 
  00:30 Recent Developments in SSL and Browsers
       Rick Andrews
 
  01:30 Lightning Talks!
 
Friday, 06 November 2009: Lucene Track

  17:00 Implementing an Information Retrieval Framework for an
       Organizational Repository, Sithu D Sudarsan
 
  18:00 Apache Mahout - Going from raw data to information
       Isabel Drost
 
  19:15 MIME Magic with Apache Tika
       Jukka Zitting
 
  20:15 Keynote: How Open Source Developers Can (Still!) Save The World
       Brian Behlendorf
 
  22:00 Building Intelligent Search Applications with the Lucene
       Ecosystem, Ted Dunning
 
  23:00 Realtime Search
       Jason Rutherglen
 

So, Apache friends, enjoy!