August 28, 2009
One of the things I’ve long envied at Google is their 20% rule, by which they allow developers to carve off one day in 5 for projects of interest outside their day job. This is the origin of All for Good, a site put up by Google to help people find local volunteer opportunities (thanks to Ty Ahmad Taylor of fanfeedr.com for pointing it out to me). It’s heartening to see, in a time when people…
August 27, 2009
| Thursday, 3 September 2009 | ||
| 11:00 | to | 11:30 |
LUCENE PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP:
Understanding Lucene Performance
with Andrzej Bialecki
Join us for a free online workshop/webinar
Thursday, September 3rd 2009
In case you missed the workshop, you can download the slides:
http://forms.lucidimagination.com/go/lucidimagination/webinar_0903309
Experienced Java developers know how to use the Apache Lucene library to build powerful search applications natively in Java. Open source LucidGaze for Lucene from Lucid Imagination provides a powerful utility for making transparent the underlying search operations, and analyzing their impact on search performance
Agenda:
<> Understanding sources…
August 27, 2009
| Thursday, 3 September 2009 | ||
| 18:30 | to | 20:30 |
at the Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA 94043
Presentations and discussions on Lucene/Solr, the Apache Open Source Search Engine/Platform — featuring:
<> “Lucene Search Performance Analysis”: Andrzej Bialecki, Lucene/Solr Committer
<> ”Can you find what they found? Solr @ Digg.com”: Sammy Yu, Digg.com Search Development
<> “Looking at Solr Relevancy”: Mark Bennett, New Idea Engineering
<> “Search at Netflix and beyond”: Walter Underwood, Search Veteran–Infoseek, Verity, Netflix
<> ”Innovations in search and social…
August 25, 2009
A small bug discovered in LucidGaze for Lucene kept us on our toes tonight. A fix is already up.
All of the users who downloaded LucidGaze for Lucene in the last 24 hours are kindly requested to re-download it from our downloads page
What can the bug do?
It can impact large Lucene implementations, as it has an issue with the way the debug log is produced (may miss some stats). the fix improves the tracking of IndexReader/IndexWriter memory…
August 24, 2009
Java Developers have long been familiar with the power of the Apache Lucene open source search library, and have made it a top project both in the Java world and the apache world.
Because search applications can address an ambitious diversity of document indexes, searches, and queries, native Lucene Java application developers are often challenged to account for variations in performance of their Lucene application. It is vital to the developers to understand how quickly a…
August 20, 2009
| Monday, 21 September 2009 | to | Tuesday, 22 September 2009 |
I will be presenting “Solr Flair: Search User Interfaces Powered by Apache Solr” at the upcoming EdUI 2009 Conference. I’m honored to be finally speaking at the same conference as my great friend and UI mentor, Molly Holzschlag. I’ve got my work cut out for me to come up with a presentation worthy for a “UI” conference with folks of this caliber headlining – I’m even looking forward to the…
August 20, 2009
| Wednesday, 9 September 2009 | to | Thursday, 10 September 2009 |
I’ll be giving a talk at the upcoming JavaZone being held in Oslo, Norway September 9 and 10th. Here’s a brief abstract of the talk:
Solr is a star in the enterprise search world, powering very popular ecommerce systems, content management systems, and many other internal and externally facing search systems throughout the world. This presentation will show you the power and ease of use of Solr in a fast…
August 12, 2009
| Thursday, 13 August 2009 | ||
| 11:00 | to | 12:00 |
In case you missed the webinar on August 13, you can download the slides or view the recorded presentation! Here’s what we covered:
Find what you’re looking for? LucidWorks for Solr lets you quickly build faster, smarter open source search applications.
August 12, 2009
Weird title, I know, but they are my pet names (there probably are better terms for them in use elsewhere) for two techniques I find often help people solve search problems in the real world, but don’t necessarily seem like good things to do at first glance.
If you’ve ever attended on of my trainings, you know I’m fond of saying “Just because a user types words into a search box, doesn’t mean you have…
August 5, 2009
Mark Miller recently posted a brief intro to Span Queries, so I thought I would piggyback on top of his work and show how to get started with Payloads (see also [1]).
Like Spans, payloads involve the position of terms, but go one step further. Namely, a Payload in Apache Lucene is an arbitrary byte array stored at a specific position (i.e. a specific token/term) in the index. A payload can be used to store weights for specific…