Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

There will be several Lucene related events at ApacheCon Europe this year:

• Lucene Boot Camp – A two day training session, March 23 & 24th
• Solr Boot Camp – A one day training session, March 24th
• Introducing Apache Mahout – Grant Ingersoll. March 25th @ 10:30
• Lucene/Solr Case Studies – Erik Hatcher. March 25th @ 11:30
• Advanced Indexing Techniques with Apache Lucene – Michael Busch. March 25th @ 14:00
• Apache Solr – A Case Study – Uri Boness. March 26th @ 17:30
• Best of breed – httpd, forrest, solr and droids – Thorsten Scherler. March 27th @ 17:30
• Apache Droids – an intelligent standalone robot framework – Thorsten Scherler. March 26th @ 15:00

Also, I’m doing a non-Lucene related talk this year with my wife, Robin, (she clearly is the star of the talk) called “The Programmer’s Guide to Health, Fitness and Nutrition“.  Here’s the gist:  I’m a programmer and fitness buff, my wife’s a Nutritionist and Health Coach.  For a long time, I didn’t have a clue on how to eat or be healthy, subsisting on the typical programmer’s (and everyone elses) diet of soda, carbs (can you say Pasta leftovers?) and junk food.  Even after I met and married Robin, I still persisted in my ways, figuring I could just exercise off the weight and exercise my way to better health.  You know what?  That doesn’t really work for people who sit at a desk all day (and often late into the night), especially as we age.

Want to know what changed my ways and has helped me be healthier, happier and more productive?  Register for the conference, and attend the talk to find out.  (You didn’t think I would give it away here, did you?)  OK, I know, let’s be realistic: you should go to the conference for all the other great talks about Apache technologies at the conference, but do make some time to think about the other parts of your life beyond code, too!