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Get up and running in no time with enterprise-grade search powered by Solr. Nick Zadrozny shows you what Solr can do, how it works, and how you can make the most of it in production. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Dan Simpson and Nick Zadrozny give an overview of cutting-edge, real-time programming for the web; and demonstrate an interactive, web-based sequencer.

Rob Kaufman talks about his new Ruby 1.9 or Bust project. The project is dedicated to updating popular Ruby gems to be Ruby 1.9 compatible, and is seeking donations to hire a full-time developer to work on porting gems. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Matt Aimonetti shows how to quickly get your database queries to run faster when you are not a DBA and are running out of time. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Tom Werner has released the ruby gem Chronic, a natural language date and time parser. In this episode he gives us a quick run through of some of the cool points.