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A closer look at some of the basic Lucene indexing structures, based on Lucene 9.7.0.

A quick look at different ways you can arrange your configuration and endpoint code in Javalin (a Java web framework). This is based on Javalin’s use of functional interfaces - specifically the Java Consumer interface and Javalin’s own Handler interface.

Flatten arbitrary JSON into a Python dictionary.

Obscure Java language tags!

A walkthrough of a Lucene span-based search, using a combination of SpanNot, SpanOr and SpanNear queries. We also take a quick look at an alternative approach using Lucene’s Standard Query Parser with interval functions.

How can we see the IANA Time Zone Database (TZDB) zone change rules in Java?

What localization rules does Java use (via the CLDR) for formatting decimal numbers - specifically the separator character and the decimal character?

Modifying the behavior of the DataTables global search - in this case, to make the search insensitive to diacritics (accented characters).

HTML’s boolean attributes can get a bit confusing - especially when combined with Thymeleaf expressions.

A subtle change has happened in how currency strings need to be parsed.