Hi everyone, You may have already seen this post on the Developer Community website blog (here: http://developer.marklogic.com/blog/community-bloggers/2011-11), but I'm posting it again here in case you missed it. These links are worth checking out!
A bunch of interesting technically-oriented, XQuery- and MarkLogic-related stuff has appeared from our community of developers lately. Below is a summary of what I found. Excitement around and commentary on the MarkLogic 5 release: * Micah Dubinko, 5 things to know about MarkLogic 5<http://dubinko.info/blog/2011/11/01/5-things-to-know-about-marklogic-5/> * Ryan Semerau, My Three Favorite New Features of MarkLogic 5<http://xquerywebappdev.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/my-three-favorite-new-features-of-marklogic-5/> * Michael Blakeley, MarkLogic 5.0 — First Look<http://blakeley.com/blogofile/archives/577/> * Cody Nolden, How to Install MarkLogic 5.0 on Mac OSX<http://marklogicstartup.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/how-to-install-marklogic-5-0-on-mac-osx/> (think of this as an "unboxing"; shows just how easy and unscary it is to get started, for any platform really) * Cody Nolden, MarkLogic Announces a New License: MarkLogic Express<http://marklogicstartup.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/marklogic-express/> (how Cody was re-inspired to pursue his startup idea) Hadoop-related posts: * Alex Bleasdale, First steps with the MarkLogic Hadoop Connector<http://blog.msbbc.co.uk/2011/11/marklogic-first-steps-with-marklogic.html> * Alex Bleasdale, Next steps with the MarkLogic Hadoop Connector<http://blog.msbbc.co.uk/2011/11/marklogic-next-steps-with-marklogic.html> * Edd Patterson, MarkLogic 5.0 and Hadoop<http://blogs.marklogic.com/2011/11/01/marklogic-5-0-and-hadoop/> A couple posts on the burgeoning topic of test-driven development in MarkLogic: * Jake Trent, Test-driven Development on MarkLogic<http://rockycode.com/blog/test-driven-development-marklogic/> * David Cassel, TDD with XQuery<http://blog.davidcassel.net/2011/10/tdd-with-xquery/> Dave Cassel has been prolific lately, so he gets his own list: * MarkLogic on $40 per month<http://blog.davidcassel.net/2011/11/marklogic-on-40-per-month/> (using Amazon EC2, etc.) * Modules databases versus the file system<http://blog.davidcassel.net/2011/11/modules-databases-versus-the-file-system/> (when to use one or the other) * Element constructors: computed and direct<http://blog.davidcassel.net/2011/10/element-constructors-computed-and-direct/> (when to use one or the other) * Exceptional code<http://blog.davidcassel.net/2011/10/exceptional-code/> (on the appropriate and inappropriate uses of try/catch) * Meaningful XML<http://blog.davidcassel.net/2011/10/meaningful-xml/> (on designing XML that works well with MarkLogic's indexes) * An XQuery sequence question<http://blog.davidcassel.net/2011/10/an-xquery-sequence-question> (how positional predicates work) * Word query specification<http://blog.davidcassel.net/2011/10/word-query-specification/> (how to configure word query index settings) * Queries and Updates<http://blog.davidcassel.net/2011/10/queries-and-updates/> (how MarkLogic distinguishes between the two) Also, Michael Blakeley has been busy writing code: * XQUT - Unit Testing in Pure XQuery<http://blakeley.com/blogofile/archives/590/> * Rebalancing for CoRB<http://blakeley.com/blogofile/archives/597/> * Yet another search parser - XQYSP<http://blakeley.com/blogofile/archives/588/> * Group By in XQuery 1.0 for MarkLogic Server<http://blakeley.com/blogofile/archives/560/> If you blog about MarkLogic (or are planning to), let me know<http://twitter.com/evanlenz> and I'll keep an eye out for interesting posts that would be helpful to the Community. Evan Lenz Software Developer, Community MarkLogic Corporation developer.marklogic.com<http://developer.marklogic.com>
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