Apache Lucene Blog

The first of my two part series on Solr appeared yesterday on IBM’s developerWorks, titled “Search Smarter with Apache Solr, Part 1: Essential Features and the Solr Schema“. The first article covers getting started with Solr and contains a simple application demonstrating some of the features of Solr, like XML based indexing and [...]

The latest version of my slides for “Advanced Lucene” are located at http://www.cnlp.org/presentations/present.asp?show=conference
Talk covered term vectors, using various query types and Lucene performance tips and tricks.

Nice presentation on Atlassian’s use of Lucene at http://blogs.atlassian.com/rebelutionary/archives/2007/04/my_serverside_java_symposium_2007_presen.html

My (slightly old) slides for ApacheCon Europe are now available in the conference proceedings available at http://eu.apachecon.com/downloads/materials.zip
I will post the latest version soon, but there is very little difference between this version and the latest.
Topics covered include Lucene performance, term vectors and query tips and tricks.
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