Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

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Just in case you were wondering, solar does not equal solr.  :-)  My wife and I are building a solar home and I emailed the contractor the other day with a subject of: “Solr contractor” and the content said:
Just a reminder that I would appreciate it if I could talk w/ the Solr  person just [...]

Lucene Boot Camp (ApacheCon site)

Lucene Boot Camp (http://www.lucenebootcamp.com) is scheduled this year for ApacheCon US on November 3 and 4th in New Orleans.  This year, I am doing a two day event, as I felt the one day event was just not enough time to get in all the goodness that is Lucene (not that [...]

Code Fury
The author of this nice plugin for WordPress contacted me today about his Lucene based WordPress plugin, so I thought I would give it a try, as I’m obviously a big fan of Lucene and also never much cared for MySql’s search (in)capabilities.
The plugin is easy enough to install, only thing that struck me [...]

BarCamp wiki / BarCampRDU
I’ll be at BarCampRDU tomorrow.  I proposed two sessions, one on Hadoop and Mahout and one on Lucene and Solr.  I don’t think I really want to do both, but I would like to do at least one, so we’ll see what other people are interested in.
If you’re around and you want [...]