Multi-select faceting in Solr with Solarium

Solarium is a library I often use at Enrise for querying Solr. For one of the projects I work on, AutoTrack.nl a second hand car site, I was having issues on advanced faceting with Solr which I could easily solve using Solarium. Before diving into the problem let’s explain something about faceting in general. Faceting [...]

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Zend Server Web API maturity

In January 2012  Zend released it’s Zend Server 5.6 release. Since then their have been some hotfixes, but there were no documented changes to the Web API. In Zend Server 5.6 version 1.2 of the Zend Server Web API became available. This release marks a more mature API, which can be a valuable asset when [...]

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Solr 3.x DataImportHandler and symlinking config files

Ever since I’ve started using Solr, I think it was Solr 1.3, there has been to possibility to create indexes using the DataImportHandler. In my case I often connect Solr to MySQL to fetch the data that needs to be indexed. Since the 3.x release I’ve seen the amount of questions asked about this feature [...]

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Zend Server – Oracle Instant Client

On the Enrise site I’ve published an article about modifying your Zend Server instance to support the full Oracle Instant Client instead of the light version. Have a read there about how you can update your Zend Server. http://www.enrise.com/2011/08/zend-server-oracle-instant-client/

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SSH access management via LDAP & PHP

On the Enrise site I’ve published an article about SSH access management via LDAP & PHP.. Have a read there about how you could authorize people to access specific servers via the SSH protocol. http://www.enrise.com/2011/03/ssh-access-management-via-ldap-php/

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Mobile device detection with WURFL and Varnish

On the Enrise site I’ve published an article about mobile device detection in Varnish. Have a read there about how you could identify your mobile devices. http://www.enrise.com/2011/02/mobile-device-detection-with-wurfl-and-varnish/

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Varnish Edge Site Includes – Zend Framework plugin controller

Development on websites when the product will run on a Varnish’ed’ production environment can be a pain in the ass. The xml tag that can be used to define Edge Side Includes can’t be parsed by a standard browser. While developing you often look at a half rendered website implementation. Testing the site will be [...]

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