Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Charlotte JUG » October Slides Available - Search & Analysis
Had a lot of fun at my recent talk at the Charlotte JUG.  They’ve got a good core of people and there was a lot of good discussion about the topic. Even managed to give away some free eBooks of “Taming Text“.  Wish I would have [...]

Just a quick reminder that there is just over one week left before Lucene Boot Camp at this year’s ApacheCon.
This year, it is a 2 day training, but for those who want to, they can sign up for the first day of Lucene Boot Camp, and then attend Solr Boot Camp on the second day.  [...]

I’ve had a chance recently to work on some things in Solr that I think that can, in the right circumstances, really enhance Solr.
First off, is SOLR-651, which implements what I am calling a Term Vector Component. The basic gist of it is that Solr can now serve up term vectors from Lucene.  For those [...]

Welcome to Lucene!
Boy, I must be slipping, but Lucene 2.4.0 is open.  See the link for more details.

Charlotte JUG » OCT 15TH - 6PM - Search and Text Analysis
I will be speaking at the Charlotte Java Users Group on Oct. 15th, covering things like Lucene, Solr, OpenNLP and Mahout, amongst other things.  Basically, a high level talk on my book.