Splunk is a great tool for searching logs, but its high cost makes it prohibitive for many teams. In this article, we present a free and open source alternative to Splunk by combining three open source projects: Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Fluentd.
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OpenAM | ForgeRock
The only “all-in-one” open source access management solution provides the most comprehensive consumer-facing identity relationship management (IRM) services, as well as traditional access management capabilities.
via OpenAM | ForgeRock.
Billion-Dollar Startup Club – WSJ.com
The Journal and Dow Jones VentureSource are tracking companies that are valued at $1 billion or more by venture-capital firms. The club is becoming less exclusive as venture capitalists funnel large sums of capital in the best startups. Today there are more than 30 such companies in the U.S., Europe and China. Click on the …
Groovy Goodness: Implicit Closure Coercion | Javalobby
Groovy is awesome and closures are cool. In Java 8 we will see lambdas which are similar like closures. A Java lambda will be automatically converted to an interface type if the interface contains only one single abstract method (SAM). In Groovy we can convert a closure into an interface type by using the as keyword. But since …
Overview | Elasticsearch
what is elasticsearch? distributed restful search and analytics via Overview | Elasticsearch.
Google Aardvark
Aardvark was a quirky little social answering service that Google purchased in 2010 for $50 million. The company was a small start-up founded in 2007 and launched to the public in 2009. Users registered for an account and indicated areas of expertise, with the intent of mainly answering quick questions off the top of their …
Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript – JavaScript | MDN
JavaScript has strong object-oriented programming capabilities, even though some debates have taken place due to the differences in object-oriented JavaScript compared to other languages. This article starts with an Introduction to object-oriented programming, then reviews the JavaScript object model, and finally demonstrates concepts of object-oriented programming in JavaScript. via Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript – JavaScript …
Home | ProjectLibre
Welcome to the ProjectLibre community. We are the open source replacement of Microsoft Project! InfoWorld just awarded ProjectLibre “Best of Open Source Software” and Opensource.com named ProjectLibre to the list of “Top 10 open source projects for 2013” via Home | ProjectLibre.
Starbucks iOS App Stores Passwords Unencrypted
The Starbucks mobile app is reportedly the most used mobile payment app in the United States, but now there’s talk that the iOS version stores usernames, email addresses and passwords in clear text. This could be serious bad news for those who lose their phones and typically use the same password across all apps and …
Petition | Justice for Noleen Murphy born and murdered 4th April 1973 | Change.org
Justice for Noleen Murphy born and murdered 4th April 1973 via Petition | Justice for Noleen Murphy born and murdered 4th April 1973 | Change.org.

