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Apache Mahout user meeting – session slides and videos are now available!

By AmeenaDecember 13, 2011

The first San Francisco Apache Mahout user meeting was held on November 29th 2011 at Lucid Imagination head quarters in Redwood City.  The 3-hour session hosted 2 talks followed by networking, food and drinks.

Session topics -

  • “Using Mahout to cluster, classify and recommend, plus a demonstration of using scripts packaged with Mahout” by Grant Ingersoll from Lucid Imagination.
  • “How using random projection in Machine learning can benefit performance with out sacrificing quality”
  • …

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The Rich Web Experience

By Erik HatcherNovember 15, 2011

Tuesday, 29 November 2011 to Friday, 2 December 2011

I’ll be speaking at the upcoming Rich Web Experience conference in Ft. Lauderdale, presenting an “Introduction to Solr”, “Solr Recipes”, and “Lucene for Solr Developers”.  I’ll be tying all of these presentations together into a cohesive search/Solr track going from the introduction, to recipes for common tasks, through advanced customization of Solr.…

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Stump The Chump? Win A Prize!

By hossmanSeptember 17, 2011

One month from today we’ll be kicking off Apache Lucene Eurocon in Barcelona, and I will once again be in the hot seat for a session of Stump The Chump.

During the session, moderator and former “Chump” Grant Ingersoll will present me with tough Lucene/Solr questions submitted by users, to see what kind of solutions I can come up with on the spot. A panel of judges will award prizes for questions that “stump” …

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Learn Lucene… deeper

By Erik HatcherSeptember 12, 2011

You’re using Solr, or some other Lucene-based search solutions, … or you should and will be!  You are (or will be) building your solutions on top of a top-notch search library, Apache Lucene.

Solr makes using Lucene easier – you can index a variety of data sources easily, pretty much out of the box, and you can easily integrate features such as faceting, highlighting, and spellchecking – all without writing Java code. And if that’s …

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Charlottesville, VA meetup

By Erik HatcherAugust 9, 2011

Monday, 15 August 2011
18:00 to 21:00

If you’re in the central VA, or even in the northern VA / DC area, come join us for the inaugural “Charlottesville Solr and Lucene Meetup”. Charlottesville is home to the co-authors of Manning’s “Lucene in Action” and Packt’s Solr “Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server” books. This area is a hotbed of search activity thanks to NGIC and DIA calling Charlottesville home, and the many gov’t subcontractors …

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Data.gov on Solr

By Erik HatcherNovember 5, 2010

At ApacheCon this week I presented “Rapid Prototyping with Solr”.  This is the third time I’ve given a presentation with the same title.  In the spirit of the rapid prototyping theme, each time I’ve created a new prototype just a day or so prior to presenting it.  At Lucene EuroCon the prototype used attendee data, a treemap visualization, and a cute little Solr-powered “app” for picking attendees at random for the conference giveaways.  For …

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Summary of first ever RTP (Raleigh/Chapel Hill/Durham) Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup

By Grant IngersollSeptember 29, 2010

A week and a day later, I’ve finally got a chance to put up my thoughts/notes on the first ever RTP Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup hosted by Lulu Press and co-sponsored by Lucid Imagination.

First off, hats off to Lulu for the excellent hosting, coordination and marketing of the event.  You could definitely see the evidence of Lulu’s “Be Remarkable” philosophy in the event. I’d say we had roughly 30-40 people for the first time event, …

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Stump The Chump? Win A Prize!

By hossmanSeptember 27, 2010

I’ve got good news and bad news regarding my upcoming “Stump The Chump” Session at Lucene Revolution.

The Bad News is that in spite of my best efforts, I won’t be sitting in a Dunk Tank during the session. Evidently, the hotel isn’t keen on the idea of having a giant sloshing water tank in one of their conference rooms.

The Good News is that there will be some great prizes for …

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Lucene Revolution: Learn, Network, Have Fun

By Lucid ImaginationSeptember 14, 2010

Lucene Revolution may very well be the birthplace of the next generation of open source enterprise search. Don’t get left out of this historic gathering! Early bird pricing has been extended to September 17, so register today to join the Lucene Revolution, and meet attendees and speakers from all walks of life – developer and strategist, visionary and pragmatist, grizzled Apache Lucene/Solr veteran and newcomer alike.

 More than just theory and academic hypothesis, Lucene Revolution will leave …

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Open Source Escrow to the Rescue

By adminAugust 19, 2010

Do you remember this scenario from days of yore?

  • Company A buys a software license from Company B, a startup.
  • Company A crosses its fingers that Company B doesn’t go bankrupt and disappear, along with the source code for Company A’s mission-critical software.
  • Company B goes kaput.
  • Company A is left with some machine-readable binary code that it is powerless to develop or use.

Source code escrow has changed the outcome of this sticky situation …

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