By adminNovember 10, 2010
| Thursday, 18 November 2010 |
| 15:30 |
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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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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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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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eWeek.com recently posted a nice article by Dr. Yves Schabes, founder of Teragram, on how to make enterprise search better through some higher order processing techniques like metadata generation, applying taxonomies, etc. and doing relevance testing on a regular basis. Naturally, this got me thinking about all the different ways this relates to the Apache Lucene ecosystem (Lucene, Solr, Mahout, Tika, etc.) and Lucid Imagination.
First, by choosing an …
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Apache Nutch, a subproject of Apache Lucene, is open source web-search software. It builds on Lucene Java, adding web-specifics, such as a crawler, a link-graph database, parsers for HTML and other document formats.
Apache Nutch 1.0 contains almost 200 resolved issues and improvements such as Solr Integration, new indexing framework and new scoring framework just to mention a few.
Nutch 1.0 is available from here.…
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