New Open Source Web Browser Engine from Google and Mozilla

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New Open Source Web Browser Engine from Google and Mozilla

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Web Browser engine used to render the page from HTML, CSS and Javascript. The browsers are one of the most important tool to view the web and it is must have software in Desktop and Mobile. These new browsers will take advantage of tomorrow’s faster, multi-core, heterogeneous computing desktop and mobile architectures.

Servo is a web browser engine jointly developed by Mozilla and Samsung. Samsung has contributed an ARM backend to Rust and the build infrastructure necessary to cross-compile to Android, along with many other improvements. Servo is targeted for Android and ARM. It is written in the Rust language. Rust is a safe, concurrent programming language. It supports a mixture of imperative procedural, concurrent actor, object-oriented and pure functional styles. Rust also supports generic programming and meta programming, in both static and dynamic styles.

Google was using WebKit as its rendering engine in Chrome browser. It mentioned in its blog that it is adding complexity to enhance WebKit. It decided to fork WebKit and created new rendering engine called Blink. Blink will have improvement in internal architecture and other innovations.

Browsers are most widely used tool for common user and improving its useability is most important. Lot of applications, games run inside browser, let see who wins the race.

LogicalDOC - Open Source DMS

LogicalDOC is both a document management and a collaboration system. The software is loaded with many functions and allows organizing, indexing, retrieving, controlling and distributing important business documents securely and safely for any organization and individual.

Free Open Source Code Search Engines

There are couple of sites which indexes the open source code and provides support to search code. Recently Google announced that they removed code search support from Google code. This article provides pointer for code search engine sites.

8 Best Open Source Searchengines built on top of Lucene

Lucene is most powerful and widely used Search engine. Here is the list of 7 search engines which is built on top of Lucene. You could imagine how powerful they are.

How to increase Alexa rank for the website

Alexa is a web information company promoted by Amazon. It provides traffic, page views, reach, etc for the web sites.Alexa ranking is widely used to rate the web site. Ranking is in increasing order. High traffic sites has lesser the rank value and poor traffic web sites will have higher the rank value. Google is ranked 1. Follow our steps, how we increased the rank from 3 million to 300,000.

Top 15 Open source alternative to Microsoft products

Microsoft is monopoly in the commercial software. Here are 15 best alternatives to most popular and widely used Microsoft products.

How to make money from Open Source

As open source getting popular day by day, many have questions like How to make money from Open Source? Lot more products are getting introduced and don't know who is making money. Certainly open source means, give the product and source for free then how to make money? Yes sell the product for free but get paid for its services.

SeoToaster: easy, fast and efficient open source CMS for top SEO performance

SeoToaster is a free Open Source CMS & Ecommerce solution to build, manage and market websites optimized for for top search engine performance. As the name implies, Seo Toaster is to date the only content management system (CMS) to truly integrate SEO execution and web marketing automation technology in full compliance with the search engines industry’s best practices.

Lucene / Solr as NoSQL database

Lucene and Solr are most popular and widely used search engine. It indexes the content and delivers the search result faster. It has all capabilities of NoSQL database. This article describes about its pros and cons.

Restrict Solr Admin Access

Solr is a search engine built on top of Lucene. It supports REST interface and has lot of built-in capabilities. Solr package has Admin UI interface which has support to perform query and even delete the contents of the index. If you are using Solr in production then you may need to restrict access. I saw couple of questions in the group related to this topic. Thought to write an article explaining few tips to restrict the user access to Solr admin UI.

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

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.

Solr vs Elastic Search

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.

An introduction to LucidWorks Enterprise Search

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.

Why require Searchengine? Why not use database for full text search in Enterprise application.

Most of the database has support of full text search, basically indexing and saarching. MySQL, Oracle and many more databases has in-built full text search. Then what is the need to go for external search engine like Lucene, Sphinx, Solr etc. Check out the advantage of using Searchengine.

Lucene Vs Solr

Lucene is a search library built in Java. Solr is a web application built on top of Lucene. Certainly Solr = Lucene + Added features. Often there would a question, when to choose Solr and when to choose Lucene.

Why Elastic Search is gaining more popularity than Solr?

Solr and Elastic Search both are built on top of Lucene library. Both are compratively equal. Any new feature / enhancement which get introduced in Lucene, will also get added to Solr. But still Elastic Search which uses Lucene as it core gained more popularity than Solr in recent years.

Google Open Source Pledge

Open Source is the way to innovate and users using it should have complete freedom. Google has came forward to declare couple of its patents on Map Reduce under Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge (OPN Pledge). There are multiple variants of open source license and using that means the product is completely free. Why OPN Pledge is required?

10 Free services for your Website / Blog. Just plug it.

Each website / blog delivers useful content or service to its users. But website themselves requires some service to monitor and increase its presence. Here are few free services which could be used by Website / Blog. This will be very much helpful for small business owners.

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

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.

Where should i host my open source code?

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.

PrestaShop - A feature rich Open Source eCommerce solution

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.