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Solr Summit Series comes to Germany (update) — Munich/23-Feb + Frankfurt/24-Feb 2011

By adminFebruary 8, 2011

Wednesday, 23 February 2011
09:00 to 13:00
Thursday, 24 February 2011
13:00 to 17:00

We’re pleased to add another speaker to the Solr summit series: Olaf Zschiedrich of eBay Germany, who will present a Solr Case Study. Here’s the latest agenda:

2011 Solr Summit Series: How Open Source Search Is Changing The World

  • Munich: Wednesday, 23th February 9:00AM-13:00PM
  • Frankfurt: Thursday, 24th February 13:00PM-17:00PM

Next generation search applications have resulted in competitive advantage, more productive …

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Webcast: Solr Dashboarding with PHP and LucidWorks Enterprise — using NFL game data

By adminFebruary 4, 2011

Wednesday, 9 February 2011
11:00 to 11:30

Join us for our regularly scheduled biweekly technical webcast:
Click here to view the archived webcast

This week, we’ll demonstrate how to build a custom LucidWorks Enterprise custom search client using PHP. This client will connect to LucidWorks Enterprise, and will present facet results graphically, along with the statistics data, using charts and graphs library, allowing us to build a dashboard to present intuitive data as part of …

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Webcast: Better Search Results Faster with Apache Solr and LucidWorks Enterprise

By adminDecember 8, 2010

Thursday, 16 December 2010
11:00 to 12:00

Originally broadcast Thursday, December 16, 2010
>> Click here for a post-view the webcast and to download the slides <<

In the key dimensions of search relevancy and query-targeted results, users have become accustomed to internet-search style facilities like page-rank, user-driven feedback, auto-suggest and more. Even with the power of Apache Lucene/Solr, building such features into your own search application is easier said than done.

Now, with LucidWorks …

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December 8 – Bay Area Lucene/Solr Meetup

By adminNovember 29, 2010

Wednesday, 8 December 2010
19:00 to 21:00

Bay Area developers – come hear Grant Ingersoll speak about the top 12 underutilized features in Lucene/Solr,  and Samuel Fineberg discuss Lucene/Solr search in HP’s products at the next Bay Area Lucene/Solr Meetup. This meetup will be held at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. Doors open at 6:30PM. Presentations will be followed by Lightning Talks from community members, and then we’ll hang out and socialize. Interested …

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December 14 Boston Area Lucene/Solr Meetup

By adminNovember 29, 2010

Tuesday, 14 December 2010
18:30 to 20:30

Boston area search developers are invited to meet Tuesday, December 14, at the Lucene/Solr Meetup, co-sponsored by Lucid Imagination and Basis Technology. Speakers will include

  • Marc Krellenstein, CTO, Lucid Imagination, on relevancy ranking with Solr;
  • Mark Miller of Lucid Imagination (Lucene PMC member, Lucene & Solr committer) on deploying Solr in the cloud;
  • Steve Kearns, Rosette Product Manager at Basis Technology, on language support, linguistics, and text
  • …

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LucidWorks Enterprise Demo afterword

By adminNovember 22, 2010

I’d like to thank you again for attending the LucidWorks Enterprise demonstration last Wednesday. For those of you, who didn’t, pick up the recorded version here to catch up.

During the demo, you presented me with questions about LucidWorks Enterprise. I was able to answer some of them immediately following the demo; however, our timeslot for the demo caught up with us, so some were left unanswered. The team here at Lucid Imagination helped me capture …

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Back by popular demand: Live 30-Minute Demo of LucidWorks Enterprise

By adminNovember 10, 2010

Wednesday, 17 November 2010
11:00 to 11:30

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Introducing LucidWorks Enterprise, the new search solution development platform from the Solr/Lucene experts at Lucid Imagination. Just as Solr built upon the Lucene search libraries, LucidWorks Enterprise builds on the power of Solr/Lucene technology. LucidWorks Enterprise leverages the cost-effective architecture of open source search to let you build search applications that scale economically. You don’t need to be familiar …

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Yonik Seeley and Mark Miller to Speak at NYJavaSIG 11/18 6:30PM ET

By adminNovember 10, 2010

Thursday, 18 November 2010
15:30 to 18:00

We’re pleased to be able to speak at the NYJavaSIG monthly meeting on November 18. Yonik Seeley, the creator of Solr and co-founder of Lucid Imagination, will provide a summary of new developments in Solr, and will talk about how developers can leverage this new functionality. In addition, Lucene/Solr committer Mark Miller will talk about scaling Solr across many servers, the Solr Cloud initiative, Apache Zookeeper, and new …

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DZone sponsors Q&A webcast with Chris Hostetter, along with new Solr Refcard

By adminNovember 8, 2010

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
10:00 to 11:00

Chris HostetterDZone has now introduced a handy new tool for Solr search application developers, the DZone Refcard #120: Apache Solr: Getting Optimal Search Results.  This condensed, well-organized 6-page tool, written by Solr committer and Lucid Imagination Senior Staff Engineer (and prolific Apache solr-user correspondent) Chris “Hossman” Hostetter, is based on the popular 350 page LucidWorks for Solr Certified Distribution Reference Guide.  Click on the thumbnail below to …

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Solr To The Rescue: Successful Migration From FAST ESP to Open Source Search Based on Apache Solr

By adminNovember 5, 2010

Thursday, 18 November 2010
11:00 to 12:00

Live Webinar. Hosted by bitpipe.com.
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Users of FAST ESP have become increasingly concerned since the purchase of Fast Search and Transfer by Microsoft in 2008. The discontinuation of the Linux platform and the subordination of FAST features into Sharepoint have created a greater sense of urgency to seek out alternatives. Many FAST ESP users are considering open source enterprise search based

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