Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

In case you missed the announcement, Lucid Imagination has joined a new open source advocacy group called OSA – Open Source for America. While it is obvious that having the government use more open source would benefit me from a company standpoint, I think there are many other reasons to support such an effort.  First [...]

I love statements like these… Enterprise Search: Lucene/Solr Meet-Up in New York City 7/22 The catch is that the project technology is really enterprise scale; the packaging still leaves something to be desired to really succeed in the corporate environment. Apache Lucene/Solr is used in more companies than a large majority, if not all, of [...]

My company, Lucid Imagination, is now offering online classes for Solr.  Read Online Training Schedule | Enterprise Search support for Apache Lucene and Solr by Lucid Imagination for more details.

FYI:Open-source Lucene threatens Microsoft and Google enterprise search | The Open Road – CNET News

Apache and the future of open-source licensing | The Open Road – CNET News Matt Asay has some interesting thoughts on licensing and why us open source devs contribute.  Interestingly enough, for me, I started contributing because I simply needed some changes in Lucene, and not for vanity, for the code I was working on [...]

Trends: Interest in Lucene continues to accelerate Interesting take on Lucene adoption: job ads for Lucene (and Solr) are on the rise.  I can personally attest to this as well, as the the volume from recruiters hitting me up has definitely picked up in recent months. Although it really isn’t a surprise to those of [...]

Yonik’s got a nice post on some new Apache Solr functionality related to performing range calculations over arbitrary functions and the performance tradeoffs:  Lucid Imagination » Ranges over Functions in Solr 1.4

Interesting thread over on Apache Mahout mailing list about using Lucene to do collaborative filtering  See [mahout-user] Memory and Speed Questions for Item-Based-Recommender – Search by Lucid Imagination

Natural Language Processing Virtual Reading Group | Google Groups A few people in the NLP LinkedIn group have decided to start up a virtual reading group.  All are welcome.