February 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…
February 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.
February 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.
February 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.
February 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…
February 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…
February 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…
February 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…
February 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…
February 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 courses, but they…