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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