Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Apache Lucene 2.9.0 is now available for public consumption.  See Apache Lucene – Overview and the slides from my webinar for more information on the new features, optimizations and bug fixes.
Congrats, as always to the Lucene team.  It is a pleasure to be associated with so many talented people.

Having been on a few trips requiring air travel lately, I finally got a chance to dig into my copy of Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server (Publisher Page)
by David Smiley and Eric Pugh and published by Packt Publishing.  So far, I’ve made it through chapter 4 and skimmed the rest of the book.
First off, kudos [...]

I had a Football (American Football, that is, not soccer) coach who always used to drill into our heads what happens when one assumes something about our opponent for that week; he’d get all worked up, hoist up his coaching shorts (you know the ones, they should be banned…), puff out his chest, give you [...]

Lucid Imagination » Webinar: “Apache Lucene 2.9: Discover the Powerful New Features” presented by Grant Ingersoll.
It’s not too late to sign up!

I spoke with Charles Humble from InfoQ yesterday about LucidGaze for Lucene.  You can read the details at InfoQ: Lucid Imagination Releases Performance Monitoring Utility for Apache Lucene.

My first article on Apache Mahout was just published on IBM devWorks.  It’s targeted at people just getting started with machine learning and Mahout.   You can read the article at Introducing Apache Mahout.  Feedback welcome.

Sean Owen, Apache Mahout committer has put up a brief post stating that Mippin is using Apache Mahout for it’s recommendation system.
Read it: Mippin Blog: May We Recommend….

I will once again be offering my Lucene Boot Camp training session at ApacheCon US this year.  ApacheCon is in Oakland this year and is celebrating 10 years of the ASF.  In addition to my training, there are a number of Lucene/Solr/Mahout/Tika/etc. talks scheduled during the conference as well as a Lucene meetup (free).  For [...]

11 Apache Technologies that Have Changed Computing in the Last 10 Years.
Number 3 (not that it implies ordering) on the list:  Apache Lucene.  Couldn’t agree more!

In addition to Lucid’s online Solr training, we now offer public classroom training: Classroom Training Schedule | Enterprise Search support for Apache Lucene and Solr by Lucid Imagination.