Git is the most popular SCM, initially developed to manage source of Linux kernel. Later many clients and tools are developed for Git. In this article we going to see various tools to use with Git.

Various tools to work with Git version control

Solr and Elastic Search are built on top of Lucene. Both are open source and both have extra features which makes programmer life easy. This article explains the difference and the best situation to choose between them.

Solr vs Elastic Search

Traditionally Programmers used ODBC, JDBC, ADO etc to access database. Developers need to write SQL queries, process the result set and convert the data in the form of objects (Data model). I think most programmers would typically write a function to convert the object to query and result set to object. To overcome these difficulties, ORM provides a mechanism to directly use objects and interact with the database.

Advantages and Disadvantages of using Hibernate like ORM libraries

I have a open source project but where should i host? This is the frequently asked question among developers. Below details will certainly help to choose the best code hosting site.

Where should i host my open source code?

Enterprise search software should be capable to search the data available in the entire organization or personnel desktop. The data could be in File system, Web or in Database. It should search contents of Emails, file formats like doc, xls, ppt, pdf and lot more. There are many commercial products available but LucidWorks and SearchBlox are best and free.

LucidWorks Vs SearchBlox - Enterprise Search Solution

Lucidworks Enterprise search solution is built on top of Apache Solr. It scales seamlessly w/sub-second response times under extreme query loads for multi-billion document collections. It has user friendly UI, which does all the job of configuration and search.

An introduction to LucidWorks Enterprise Search

SEO friendly URL is recommended for any website which wants to be indexed and wants its presence in search results. Searchengine mostly index the static URL. It will avoid the URL which has lot of query strings. Almost all websites generate content dynamically then how could the URL be static. That is the job of the programmer.

How to create SEO friendly url

Students ask this question frequently steps or methodology to learn from open source projects. There is no single answer or steps available. I listed the steps which i follow and i hope this will help for few.

How to learn from open source projects

Web developers most frequent question, Should user images be stored in database or file system? Which is the best way. Both has some pros and cons.

Should web application store images in Database or File system?

What if you could reliably run PHP without Nginx or Apache, but also without relying on its internal server? What if you could do async operations in PHP with true multi threading, fully taking advantage of multi core processors without hacks or a jungle of callbacks? What if you had drag and drop installation support for your PHAR packaged web apps in an environment identical to its production counterpart? Welcome to appserver.io – the worlds first open source application server for PHP.

Appserver.io – The First Multithreaded Application Server for PHP written in PHP

Bitcoin is an open source digital currency which could be transferred in a P2P payment network. It is decentralized and it is not controlled by any central authority or banks. It is transferred from person to person and no authority will be aware of your transaction. Its quite different from PayPal or Banks.

How Bitcoin works? A simple introduction.

Recently you might have seen many news that big organization like Redhat, Fedora, Wikipedia switched their database from MySQL. Now Google also going to join them. Why everyone want to move out of MySQL? It is once a popular and stable software. What is the reason behind and what are the possible alternatives.

Is it good time to switch from MySQL and choose some other database?

People who have taken programming as their career has to do coding for almost 30 years. Will they always get an opportunity to do complex tasks or to write project from scratch? The answer is NO. Sometimes they may get but not always. What should they do?

Why Experienced Programmers Should Contribute to Open Source

I could see many many students posting this question in many forums, I want to contribute to open source but How to contribute? There are many ways to do that. I have listed a few and I hope it might be useful.

How to contribute to open source

PrestaShop is an Open Source eCommerce Solution. It comes complete with over 310 features that have been carefully developed to assist business owners in increasing sales with virtually little effort. It is being used in more than 150,000 online stores.

PrestaShop - A feature rich Open Source eCommerce solution

What the benefit will i get, if i contribute to Open Source? This is the frequently asked question by many people. I just want to pen down the benefits which i know and i hope you will agree with it.

Benefits in contributing to Open Source

Open Source projects requires sponsors to fund their project. Few got good funding but few others are struggling to continue their project. A contributor, who does full time work in open source project requires funding to take care his needs. He has to be paid and he cannot do it for free. For those who don't get fund, check out this crowdfunding sites, these are exclusively for open source projects. Join these, get some fund and continue your dream.

Crowdfunding for Open Source Projects

You may require GBs of data to do performance or load testing. How your app behaves when there is loads of data.  You need to know the capacity of your application. This is the frequently asked question from the sales team "The customer is having 100GB of data and he wants to know whether our product will handle this? If so how much RAM / Disk storage required?". This article has pointers to the large data corpus.

10 sites to get the large data set or data corpus for free

Advanced Data Analysis using Pandas, Explore Aggregation, Merge Columns, Date Filters

Data Analysis using NumPy

Getting Started with pandas, Data Analysis And Manipulation Tool

Getting Started with pandas, Data Analysis and Manipulation Tool for Python

Build Blazingly Fast Typo Detection using Trieve

In this article we will see how to work with Apache Lucene for text search in Java.

Introduction to Apache Lucene

Arguflow - Build Semantic Search and Retrieval Augmented LLM Solutions fast

Build Semantic Search and Retrieval Augmented LLM Solutions fast using Arguflow

Exploring the Depths of the Ethereum Ecosystem

Navigating the Ethereum Ecosystem: A Beginner's Guide to Blockchain

Blockchain is buzzing across the world with its endless potential for disrupting a broad spectrum of the industries beyond the storage and transferring the values. Cryptocurrencies are revolutionizing variant industries and plenty of people talk about it with and their potential. Blockchain technology may have been made for bitcoins but it has immense potential for making the transactions secure and exciting. The technology is not ubiquitous but it already seems to be disrupting a huge number of the highly centralized industries that demonstrate practical use cases for changing the way businesses are done.

Blockchain Technology Will Revolutionize These Five Industries

In this article, we will learn about how to create Bar Chart, Area Chart, Bubble Chart, Doughnut and Pie Charts, Line Chart, Mixed Chart Types, Polar Area Chart, Radar Chart, Scatter Chart, Cartesian Axes, Category Axis, Logarithmic Axis, Radial Axes, Labeling Axes, Styling using ChartJS.

ChartJs Visualization Library - A Detailed Walkthrough

Data Visualization Using Tremor React Library

In the world of data visualization, charts play a pivotal role in conveying information in a visually appealing and easily understandable manner. Charting libraries simplify the process of creating various types of charts, enabling developers to showcase data trends, comparisons, and distributions effectively. 

Create Basic Charts with ChartJS

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