- Security Fix: Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension. This is why nobody trusts Microsoft. Pulling this sort of stunt as an OS vendor is really irresponsible.
- Scott Rosenberg: Rosen and Sotomayor: Blame it on the blog. After writing a really irresponsible hit piece, Jeffrey Rosen tries to blame his own crappy reporting on the fact that he was writing a blog post. Even though he wasn’t.
- drupal.org: Apache Solr Search Integration. How to use Solr for site search with Drupal.
- drupal.org: Zappos.com and Drupal. A case study.
- Ajaxian: GWT team Wave’s goodbye to annoying question; It’s the API stupid. How Google Wave makes use of Google Web Toolkit.
The design of the index for Facebook’s Graph Search
Under the Hood: Building out the infrastructure for Graph Search
Really interesting post on the design of the search index used by Facebook’s Graph Search feature. How challenging was it to build? Facebook started the project in 2009 and migrated all their other search systems to it before building Graph Search. All three of the engineers listed as working on the project were at Google prior to working at Facebook.