By Grant IngersollDecember 27, 2010
After a week off to enjoy time with my family, I thought I would kick off the last week of 2010 with a look back at the year as it relates to the Apache Lucene ecosystem. For anyone who follows the amalgamation of projects that I like to call the Lucene Ecosystem (the Apache projects: Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Mahout, Tika, PyLucene, Lucy, Lucene.NET, Droids, ManifoldCF — Lucene Connector Framework, OpenNLP and UIMA) you know it …
By Grant IngersollDecember 24, 2009
It’s that time of year, so I thought I would take a look back at the year that was for the Lucene Ecosystem and maybe look ahead just a little bit too.
First and foremost, it should be obvious to even the most casual observer that the Apache Lucene communities are thriving. Not only is it a great time to be involved in open source, it’s a great time to be involved in Lucene. Both …
By Grant IngersollJune 5, 2009
By Grant IngersollApril 1, 2009
Another year, another successful ApacheCon Europe, at least as far as Lucene, Solr and I are concerned. This year, like last, Erik Hatcher and I had trainings on Lucene and Solr. Both were well attended, despite the economy, showing once again the power of open source and the fact that people are still invested in search. (If you missed the training, see here for alternatives.)
During the conference, there were several talks on Lucene, …