November 23, 2009
Thank you to all who for visited us at the Enterprise Search Summit in San Jose last week.
We are excited to announce that the winner of the Kindle give-a-way is Luc Dodinval of Allstate Insurance Co.
Contrats, Luc, and enjoy your Kindle reader!
November 22, 2009
The Apache Tika team just announced Tika 0.5 is released (c&p of announcement below). I upgraded Apache Solr’s Tika integration (aka Solr Cell) to use the new libraries this morning. To use, check out SVN trunk from Apache Solr.
The Apache Lucene project is pleased to announce the release of Apache Tika
0.5. The release contents have been pushed out to the main Apache release
site and the m2 ibiblio sync, so the releases should be available as…
November 20, 2009
For a long time now, Solr has had a good chunk of functions available for use to boost relevance based on the content of a field, but I’ve always been on the user side of them and never on the writing side. At least, that is, until recently. This week I have been putting the finishing touches on an article on using Lucene and Solr for spatial search. As part of the article, I had a…
November 18, 2009
I just sent out the Apache Mahout 0.2 release announcement. Here’s a copy:
Apache Mahout 0.2 has been released and is now available for public
download at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/mahoutApache Mahout is a subproject of Apache Lucene with the goal
of delivering scalable machine learning algorithm implementations
under the Apache license. http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Scale in terms of computation to the
size of data you manage today. Scale in terms of community to support anyone
interested in using machine learning. Scale
in terms of business by providing…
November 17, 2009
We’re happy to announce the availability of the latest release of LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Lucene.
LucidWorks for Lucene v2.9.1 is a major update for the LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Lucene, incorporating Apache Lucene release 2.9.1, an upgrade to all of the accompanying utilities, extensive testing performed by Lucid Imagination and the feedback from many of our users who have downloaded and using it to power their search applications.
Change log for LucidWorks for Lucene v2.9.1 includes:
November 16, 2009
| Wednesday, 18 November 2009 | ||
| 10:00 | to | 11:00 |
Free Webinar hosted by TheServerSide.com
Wed, 18 November, 10:00AM PT / 1:00PM ET / 18:00 GMT
Register for this Webinar today!
With new advances in the flexibility and customizability of Apache Lucene/Solr open source search, the ubiquity of location-aware devices and vast amounts of spatial data, tremendous opportunities open up to deliver more powerful and effective search results based on geographical awareness. We’ll hear from Grant Ingersoll, co-founder of Lucid Imagination and chairman of the…
November 13, 2009
| Tuesday, 17 November 2009 | ||
| 09:30 | to | 12:30 |
| Wednesday, 18 November 2009 | ||
| 16:40 | to | 17:40 |
I will be presenting two sessions at the devoxx conference next week in Antwerp, Belgium. Both sessions share the same title “Solr Power with Lucene” and abstract. The first session is a 3 hour “University” course, the second talk is a 1 hour succinct version.
Solr powers the search of many enterprise applications, and long before Solr shone on enterprise search, Lucene – Solr’s core library, was and still is used to…
November 10, 2009
After many months of hard work, Solr 1.4 is completed and released. To learn more about the 1.4 release, check out:
The Certified Distribution of Solr 1.4, the fully tested version with lots of useful tools and 30 days free getting started assistance, will follow shortly. Click here to be informed when…
November 9, 2009
We were all so caught up in the fun at ApacheCon that no one announced the Lucene 2.9.1 release. Its out, and its highly recommended if you are currently on 2.9.0. Check it out: http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/#6+November+2009+-+Lucene+Java+2.9.1+available
To learn more about what’s new in the Lucene 2.9.1 release, check out these resources:
November 9, 2009
Solr 1.4 won’t officially be released until tomorrow when the announcement goes out, but the official dist has already found its way onto some of the mirrors. Try your luck if your antsy 