Jeff's Search Engine Caffè:
The annual TREC meeting is this week in Maryland. The proceedings won't be available until February, but you can get hints about what is happened (but no eval results) by following on Twitter, #trec09. Some highlights:The ClueWeb09 Wiki has been updated with the webgraph, redirects, and language identification information (Read More)
Grant's Grunts: Lucene Edition:
Webcast: From Here to There, You Can Find it Anywhere: Building Local/Geo-Search with Apache Lucene and Solr sponsored by Lucid Imagination.I’ll be doing a webinar on spatial search with Sameer Maggon of ATT Interactive and Ryan McKinley of Voyager GIS this coming Wednesday. We’ll talk about how Lucene and Solr can help so (Read More)
Grant's Grunts: Lucene Edition:
I just sent out the following announcement to the mailing lists:Apache Solr 1.4 has been released and is now available for public download!http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise searchplatform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features includepowerf (Read More)
Grant's Grunts: Lucene Edition:
For those interested in how Monster uses Lucene to help you find a job, check out my podcast with Peter Keegan of Monster.com:Grant Ingersoll Talks with Peter Keegan | Enterprise Search support for Apache Lucene and Solr by Lucid Imagination.Peter has been a long time contributor to Lucene and is doing some cool things with (Read More)
Grant's Grunts: Lucene Edition:
I did a short interview with Rich Bowen on Lucene and Lucene training at ApacheCon. You can hear it here:
FeatherCast » Blog Archive » Episode 66: Grant Ingersoll and Lucene at Apachecon. (Read More)
Grant's Grunts: Lucene Edition:
Just two weeks to ApacheCon at this point. I still have space in Lucene Boot Camp, but it is filling up. Class will be covering Lucene 2.9. See Lucene Boot Camp Training Session for more info and to register. (Read More)
Grant's Grunts: Lucene Edition:
Apache Lucene 2.9.0 is now available for public consumption. See Apache Lucene – Overview and the slides from my webinar for more information on the new features, optimizations and bug fixes.
Congrats, as always to the Lucene team. It is a pleasure to be associated with so many talented people. (Read More)
Grant's Grunts: Lucene Edition:
Having been on a few trips requiring air travel lately, I finally got a chance to dig into my copy of Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Serverby David Smiley and Eric Pugh and published by Packt Publishing. So far, I’ve made it through chapter 4 and skimmed the rest of the book.Solr 1.4 Book CoverFirst off, kudos to David and Eri (Read More)
Grant's Grunts: Lucene Edition:
I had a Football (American Football, that is, not soccer) coach who always used to drill into our heads what happens when one assumes something about our opponent for that week; he’d get all worked up, hoist up his coaching shorts (you know the ones, they should be banned…), puff out his chest, give you a look that was part (Read More)
Grant's Grunts: Lucene Edition:
Lucid Imagination » Webinar: “Apache Lucene 2.9: Discover the Powerful New Features” presented by Grant Ingersoll.
It’s not too late to sign up!. (Read More)
Grant's Grunts: Lucene Edition:
I spoke with Charles Humble from InfoQ yesterday about LucidGaze for Lucene. You can read the details at InfoQ: Lucid Imagination Releases Performance Monitoring Utility for Apache Lucene. (Read More)
Grant's Grunts: Lucene Edition:
I will once again be offering my Lucene Boot Camp training session at ApacheCon US this year. ApacheCon is in Oakland this year and is celebrating 10 years of the ASF. In addition to my training, there are a number of Lucene/Solr/Mahout/Tika/etc. talks scheduled during the conference as well as a Lucene meetup (free). Fo (Read More)
Grant's Grunts: Lucene Edition:
In addition to Lucid’s online Solr training, we now offer public classroom training: Classroom Training Schedule | Enterprise Search support for Apache Lucene and Solr by Lucid Imagination. (Read More)
eWeek - RSS Feeds:
The Apache RevolutionThe Apache Software Foundation turns 10 this year and will be celebrating this landmark milestone with the largest ApacheCon event in November. Although a completely volunteer organization, the ASF has helped create some of the most important technologies underpinning the modern Internet. Here, we look (Read More)
Grant's Grunts: Lucene Edition:
Andrezej Bialecki is giving a webinar for Lucid on Apache Lucene performance on Thursday. More info is available at:
Lucid Imagination » Understanding Lucene Performance – Free online workshop. (Read More)