By Mark MillerFebruary 28, 2009
It looks like the next release of Lucene is going to be 2.4.1, a bug fix release. The Lucene release ‘animal’ has raised its head over the previous months on two occasions, once eyeing a 2.4.1 release, then refocusing on a 2.9 release. Time has seen 2.4.1 land a few more bugs than we had though, so it looks like 2.4.1 is in the final wrapup stages and 2.9 will come next.
2.9 will likely …
By Grant IngersollFebruary 27, 2009
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LuceneMeetupMarch2009 – Lucene-java Wiki.
Lucene users (Solr, Nutch, Mahout, Tika, etc.) are all invited to attend a Lucene Meetup on March 24th in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Looks like Lucene creator Doug Cutting will be there, as well as some of the other Lucene committers. I always like these informal gatherings, as they are a great way to share ideas and meet fellow coders.…
By Mark MillerFebruary 25, 2009
Is it just me, or does a different Government body around the world push towards open source like every other week these days? Crescendo coming? Already well under way?
+1.…
By Mark MillerFebruary 22, 2009
There are a surprising number of query parser options in the Lucene/Solr world – not something I realized very quickly in my early Lucene days. I thought I might highlight a few of the options out there. …
By Mark MillerFebruary 19, 2009
The Drupal.org website was just updated to Drupal 6 and as part of the migration, they are now using the very cool Drupal/Solr integration module and running their site search on Solr with faceting.
I used Drupal quite a bit a few years back, and it was part of a very positive few years of heavy PHP work. I’m happy to hear it has gotten so easy to use my favorite search engine with it.…
By Erik HatcherFebruary 17, 2009
A hearty thanks to the Central Virginia Ruby Enthusiasts’ Group, who invited me to speak on Solr+Ruby giving me a good reason to delve deeply back into solr-ruby and acts_as_solr.
Let’s start a Rails project from scratch to illustrate how simple it is to get up and running with acts_as_solr. The example is, indeed, a fairly real-world’ish type of need. We’re going to index resumes, which could be in standard rich document formats …
By Mark MillerFebruary 17, 2009
I have some Highlighter work that I keep meaning to finish up (basic support for highlighting ConstantScoreQuerys), and so I have the Highlighter on my mind……
By adminFebruary 13, 2009
A number of my peers in the open source community have put together an interesting letter to President Obama on how vital a role open source can play in tackling some of the big challenges we face in this economic climate. In addition to a good set of observations about how the virtues of open source can help the new administration achieve its goals in domains such as health care, they recommend the president make …
By Grant IngersollFebruary 9, 2009
I was recently with a client doing a Best Practices assesment when I came across a common source of confusion related to sorting, faceting and schema design.
As background, Solr provides a schema that describes the Fields and Field Types (FT) that are used by an application. Field Types describe how Solr should handle the information contained in a Field. For instance, the integer FT tells Solr to treat the contents of any Field of …
By Grant IngersollFebruary 9, 2009
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Lucene and me at ApacheCon EU in Amsterdam March 23-27.
I’ve posted a Lucene related event schedule on my blog for people who are interested. Of particular note are the two days of pre-conference training on both Lucene and Solr. These are shorter ApacheCon versions of our 3 day training classes. Obviously, we can’t cover all the material that we do in our full …