Simon Willison’s Weblog

Indexing JSON in Solr 3.1. The next release of Solr will support indexing documents provided as JSON—Solr currently requires incoming documents to be formatted as XML.

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Tracking Every Release. How Etsy use Graphite to monitor their continuous deployment releases.

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Spacelog: space exploration stories from the original transcripts. The product of the most recent /dev/fort outing—a beautiful, web-native interface for browsing the NASA transcripts from the Apollo 13 and Mercury 6 missions (more to come). Every key moment has a URL.

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24 ways: Extreme Design. Hannah Donovan on the design process that has evolved from multiple /dev/fort expeditions.

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