This past weekend I presented yet another “Rapid Prototyping with Solr” presentation, this time back in the saddle with the No Fluff, Just Stuff symposium in Raleigh, NC. I intentionally waited until the last minute to hack together a quick script to index some data I haven’t indexed before to demonstrate the ease at which one can grab Solr and immediately make some use out of it. This time around I cobbled together a …
| 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 …
| Tuesday, 12 July 2011 | to | Friday, 15 July 2011 |
I had the honor and pleasure of being invited to speak at Überconf last week in the Denver, CO area. 
The annual conference is organized by Jay Zimmerman of No Fluff, Just Stuff fame. Überconf has the same top-notch quality, at a grander scale – 10 concurrent tracks (woah!), full day pre-conference trainings (mobile, anyone?), food (full breakfast! that’s a REAL hearty bonus!), and …
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 …
| 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 …
| 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”.…
| 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 and …