February 7, 2010
“I am shocked, SHOCKED, to find out that gambling is going on here,” says Claude Raines as Captain Louis Renault, as he feigns disbelief in busting up Rick’s Cafe in the classic film Casablanca — right before the croupier hands him a wad of bills.
I think we were all equally “shocked” to learn that Microsoft would drop support for FAST ESP (Enterprise Search Platform) on anything but Windows, as they announced this past week. But for…
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February 4, 2010
| Wednesday, 3 February 2010 |
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Click here to view the on-demand webinar
As cloud computing takes business processes and their data beyond the limits of specific local systems and storage, search technology plays a vital role. It retrieves and organizes data from multiple disparate sources and can translate cloud data into a unified, user-centric view – one that fits the specific needs of your business in a very specific time and place.
Boomi is an integration cloud provider that enables…
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February 2, 2010
You are invited to visit the new LucidImagination.com, now up for public beta.
What’s new? We have improved the navigation with a simplified, streamlined hierarchy; provided more relevant links and content across the site; and added new content to help those interested in using Lucene/Solr open source search to drive business growth.
Search Application Developers:
We have developed a focused resource area which will be at developer.lucidimagination.com. Here you will find loads of technical information, resources and downloads for Lucene and…
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February 1, 2010
Overview
Lucid Imagination has now packaged the latest version of our LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Solr 1.4 as an Amazon Machine Instance (AMI). It’s available for free to anyone with an Amazon Web Services account and Amazon EC2 access. In this post, I’ll outline what this is about, what it can do for you and instructions on how to get it started.
Our free AMI running LucidWorks for Solr offers the following benefits:
- A very straightforward way to get a Solr…
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January 28, 2010
| Thursday, 28 January 2010 |
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CLICK HERE
to view the recorded webinar or download the slides
It’s a safe bet your end users can read and write, but can they search? How can you be sure your search application will know that when users type in “Serious Black of Askaban” it should return Sirius Black of Azkaban from Harry Potter in your online bookstore? Or that “Inglorious Bastards” should find reviews of the latest Quentin Tarantino movie?
Join Lucid Imagination…
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January 27, 2010
By now, many of you have had the opportunity to use the online, searchable version of the LucidWorks Certified Distribution Reference Guide for Solr 1.4. In this post, I’ll describe how we took the original document version of the Reference Guide (LWCDRG), and transformed it into an online resource searched by Solr.
I hope that you might find this useful if you are faced with creating a similar, online searchable service from existing documents.
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January 21, 2010
Working at Lucid Imagination gives me the opportunity to analyze and evaluate a great many instances of Solr implementations, running in some of the largest Fortune 500 companies as well as some of the smallest start-ups. This experience has enabled me to identify many common mistakes and pitfalls that occur, either when starting out with a new Solr implementation, or by not keeping up with the latest improvements and changes.
Thanks to my colleague Simon Rosenthal…
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January 21, 2010
| Monday, 15 February 2010 |
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Introduction to Search Development with Solr
Search Development with Solr by Lucid Imagination is a 3 day instructor-led hands-on in-classroom training course, written and led by the engineers who helped write the Lucene/Solr code. The objective of this course is to provide you with real use cases and teach you how to apply Solr search engine technologies to business requirements. During the course you will learn to apply best practices…
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January 21, 2010
| Thursday, 4 March 2010 |
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Virtual Class: Solr Essentials
Course Overview:
Targeted to application developers unfamiliar with the basic constructs and functions of Solr and the underlying Lucene libraries, focuses on the basics of getting Solr up and running, importing the data you wish to index, and understanding how the search process works, from end to end. The virtual class expands on key features that Solr uses to make searches more relevant and effective. Students are introduced to operating…
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January 20, 2010
Short Version
The Apache Lucene Connector Framework project has officially entered incubation. LCF, for short, is going to be a framework for connecting to content repositories like Sharepoint, Documentum, etc. and will make it easy to hook into Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Mahout, Tika, while, of course, remaining agnostic of the final destination of the data. See the Connectors website and the original proposal for more info. Help wanted!
Long Version
Background
A while back, MetaCarta, a spatial search company, approached us…
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