February 26, 2010
Here’s the announcement:
Hello Lucene users,
On behalf of the Lucene development community I would like to announce the release of Lucene Java versions 3.0.1 and 2.9.2:
Both releases fix bugs in the previous versions:
- 2.9.2 is a bugfix release for the Lucene Java 2.x series, based on Java 1.4
- 3.0.1 has the same bug fix level but is for the Lucene Java 3.x series, based on Java 5.New users of
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February 25, 2010
Get in-depth with Solr 1.4 – faceting, sharding, range queries and more.
February 25, 2010
Some years ago, when open source was the fairly-long-haired hairshirt scruffy shorts-wearing barbarian at the gate, there was real sturm-und-drang around droll, berkeley-esque phrases like “copy-left” and “viral licensing”, enough to make some people wonder if these open source types used deodorant. And the RIAA, god bless ‘em, was running around suing high school students and other customers who had the temerity to take a different view of the traditional marriage of digital…
February 17, 2010
I’ve gotten quite a few inquiries during the last month from people interested in the sources of LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Solr. I’m happy to see our Certified Distribution generating so much interest in the community; more than a few large companies are developing with it and using the certified distribution in order as the foundation of their search applications. I’d love to see even more companies adopting the certified distribution for their needs.
The…
February 17, 2010
The vote is on for what I think is a Lucene first – two simultaneous bug fix releases. Because the Lucene 2 series is the last to support Java 1.4, we are doing a bug fix release for for 2.9 as well as the recently released Java 1.5 required 3.0 release.
A little preview from the proposed release announce:
Important improvements in these releases are a increased maximum number of unique terms in each index
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February 16, 2010
A couple more notes on this subject since the Webinar from a couple of weeks ago:
Steve Arnold of Beyond Search asks in a blog post:
…the notion of integrating log files is a good one but I wondered how long it takes to suck big log files, determine deltas, and then update the indexes.
We’ve offered some of the information from the Webinar in a case study we’ve posted about our…
February 11, 2010
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…
February 11, 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…
February 11, 2010
| Monday, 15 February 2010 | ||
| 18:00 | to | 21:00 |
I will be giving an introduction to Apache Mahout at the Triangle Java User Group on Feb. 15. See http://trijug.org/ for more details. Hope to see you there!
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…