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The call for participation for this year''s O''Reilly Open Source Convention has been posted. It''s included below, and you can find it online here: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2006/ The conference is July 24-28, and the deadline for submissions is February 13. Early submissions help! In 2005, Ruby built huge momentum at OSCON; all of the Ruby tutorials

Hello Rubyists! We on the OSCON presentation committee wanted to remind you all that the deadline for proposals for this year''s O''Reilly Open Source Convention is Midnight (PST) Feb 13. So you have the rest of this week and the weekend to get those talk proposals in! The talk proposal form is here: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2006/create/e_sess/ You can read more

Hi all, Sorry if I should be posting this elsewhere--I couldn''t find an Instiki specific mailing list, but the Instiki site is down. I wanted to mention that my friend Tim Lauer and I are going to be doing a short "high order bit" talk at the O''Reilly Emerging Technologies conference, describing a particular use of Instiki which we came up with:

There (yet) another discussion going on on the O''Reilly web logs about J E5, complexity and the competitors (i.e. Rails et al). See http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/07/the_beginning_of_the_end_for_j.html. Seems this was spawned by my own article available at: http://www.soaranch.com/articles/2006/7/11/soa-and-rails-part-1.html. My response to this discussion is at:

I''m happy to announce the availability of RJS Templates for Rails published by O''Reilly. The book covers all aspects and features of RJS that are included in Rails 1.1. It also walks through a few examples, debugging with FireBug, and finishes off with some reference material. The book is 56 pages and is available in PDF format. I''m really happy with how the book has

If this was already posted here, my apologies. As a long time Perl hack (cough, cough) and now RoR convert, I''m thrilled to see other groups getting involved for the exposure. Aren''t you? Let''s fill up the comments and show we''re alive! http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/ Ok, well I haven''t posted anything yet but hey my coffee cup fell dry ;o) -r

Though it''s pretty straightforward stuff, I figured maybe some Merb users would be interested in this article: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2008/01/14/shoes-meets-merb-interfacing-a-gtk2-front-end-and-a-rails-web-service.html Brad and I built a tiny merb pastebin app that serves up YAML, which is used by a little Shoes GUI. Anyway... enjoy... and please let me know if

Remember folks, we can support the Ferret project by donating warm soft electronic cash to the author, Dave Balmain, using the paypal buttons on the website: http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/wiki/DonationsFAQ We can also buy the Ferret Shortcut pdf/book from O''Reilly, also written by Dave Balmain. It''s awesome good:

although basically hopeful of the company''s ''rough cuts'' venture, i am insulted by the fact that o''reilly''s safari service offers important material to its regular subscribers only if they pay extra for it. o''reilly''s material on ajax is a good example: all of the introductory coverage is available only as pricey ''rough

Hi I've added the apostrophe character to auth_username_chars however authentication still fails. I'm using LDAP with the following details: dovecot version 1.1.7 openldap client library 2.4.11 With auth_verbose = yes and auth_debug = yes set I see the following in the logs. Note the initial escaped apostrophe and the subsequent escaped escape in the filter! ----- start log ----- Jan

An article I wrote that provides a basic introduction to R has been published on Oreillynet.com. The article is titled "Analyzing Statistics with GNU/R". Here is the link: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/11/17/r_for_statistics.html Please feel free to post comments or interesting basic R scripts at the end of the article. Kevin Farnham

Most of you have probably read the interview with Zed Shaw: http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/05/post.html I posted a companion interview with Luis Lavena this morning, you can read it in English at: http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/05/interview_with_luis_lavena_2.html It''s also available in German:

I am using ferret right now, and it works great for all my regular text documents/information. My problem arises when I want to index/search all of our assets (mostly pdf files). Currently, there is no way to READ pdfs from Ruby. Because of this I have to resort to using Java to read the PDF''s and then Lucene to index them. My problem here is a couple things. One, to index a asset I have

Hi, I followed the howto to use keys for documents: http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/wiki/HowTos#Howtousekeysfordocument If I add two documents with the same id, only one gets added to the index as expected. However, I have found the key and id do not match. So, attempting to access the index with the id does not work. For instance, when I run this search: INDEX.search_each(query) do

Recently I''ve been revisiting some of my search code. With a greater understanding of how Java Lucene implements its search methods, I realized that one level of abstraction is not present in the Ferret classes/methods. Here are the relevant method signatures: Ferret''s search methods: in Ferret::Index::Index: search(query, options = {}) -> returns a TopDocs

I''ve been running some multithreaded tests on Ferret. Using a single Ferret::Index::Index inside a DRb server, it definitely behaves for me as if all readers are locked out of the index when writing is going on in that index, not just optimization -- at least when segment merging happens, which is when the writes take the longest and you can therefore least afford to lock out all reads.

Happy New Year everyone. I have what I hope is a simple-to-answer question. In the code sample below, I'm using a tile plot to plot a continuous measure and overlaying the plot with labels. I need to print the labels in courier, but there appears to be no way to override the default font setting in geom_text. I've scoured the web for clues on how to do this, but found nothing relevant.

One is there any way to run a server side script every time a user logs in and logs out. I've tried using the pre and post execs in netlogon, but it get's run multiple times. I was wondering if anyone knew of a better way. Basically I want to log username & machine name into a database, to help take computer lab usage. Two is there any kind of flag for printing a Full Unix name,

Please excuse me if this has been answered before. Is there a "how-to" guide or a walkthrough on integrating Lucene with ROR via XMLRPC? I got Ferret to work but I am worried that it''s not going to be as scalable. I highly appreciate your assistance. Thanks Frank --------------------------------- Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus

Hello all, I'm having trouble installing the package 'gregmisc'. I've run the command: > R CMD INSTALL -l /usr/lib/R/library /tmp/gregmisc_0.9.0.tar.gz And I can see it shows up on the list of available packeage when I issue > library() But when I do >library(gregmisc) I get: Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : syntax error on line 3105 All the other packages