Lucene, Solr, Mahout and Droids ApacheCon EU in Amsterdam March 23-27

Monday, 23 March 2009 to Friday, 27 March 2009

Lucene and me at ApacheCon EU in Amsterdam March 23-27.

I’ve posted a Lucene related event schedule on my blog for people who are interested.  Of particular note are the two days of pre-conference training on both Lucene and Solr.  These are shorter ApacheCon versions of our 3 day training classes.  Obviously, we can’t cover all the material that we do in our full courses, but they…

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The Rising Sun: Erik Hatcher presents at code4lib conference

Monday, 23 February 2009 to Thursday, 26 February 2009

Erik presents “The Rising Sun: Making the most of Solr power” at 2009 code{4}lib conference in Providence, RI. “Rapid fire, Erik will go through a number of ways to improve existing Solr usage in performance, relevancy, and user interface”.

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Solr with Ruby: Erik Hatcher speaks at CVREG, 10 Feb 09, Richmond, Virginia

Tuesday, 10 February 2009
18:00 to 20:00

If you’re considering adding search capabilities to your Rails app, and you’re going to be in Richmond VA this Tuesday, do yourself a favor: come out and learn what Solr can do for your application from 6 to 8 pm. Lucid Imagination’s own Erik Hatcher will present on Solr fundamentals to the Central Virginia Ruby Enthusiast Group. Erik will demonstrate its features live through the command-line…

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