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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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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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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