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Andres Jaimes

Installing Lucene/Solr on CentOS 6

This time we are going to install Solr, the super text search platform on CentOS. The installation process requires a couple extra libraries in order to work: Apache Commons Logging and SLF4J.  

Installing Java

yum install java
java -version

You …

iptables snippets

iptables is the default firewall you see on any linux computer. It works by allowing (ACCEPTing) or denying (DROPing) connections to the local computer. There are basically three scenarios you can deal with:

  1. INPUT: Connections generated from a …

How many bytes does an "int" have in c++?

Well, that depends on several things, like your current processor and compiler. The best way to know it, is by using the sizeof operator. Copy the following code, compile it and run it:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main() { …

A simple Makefile

Learning how to create a Makefile is one of those tasks every C/C++ programmer has to do. Since there are many good make tutorials on the web, I’m only going to share a simplistic makefile that you can use for your projects.

CFLAGS=-c -Wall -Iinclude …