Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

In case you missed it, MindTouch has put up their list of Most Influential People In Open Source | MindTouch, Inc Blog.  While the people listed are all deserving, I can’t help but notice that there is only one developer  in the top 5 (Drupal’s Buytaert) while all the rest are execs.
The other thing that [...]

For those interested in how Monster uses Lucene to help you find a job, check out my podcast with Peter Keegan of Monster.com:
Grant Ingersoll Talks with Peter Keegan | Enterprise Search support for Apache Lucene and Solr by Lucid Imagination.
Peter has been a long time contributor to Lucene and is doing some cool things with [...]

I did a short interview with Rich Bowen on Lucene and Lucene training at ApacheCon.  You can hear it here:
FeatherCast » Blog Archive » Episode 66: Grant Ingersoll and Lucene at Apachecon.

Just two weeks to ApacheCon at this point.  I still have space in Lucene Boot Camp, but it is filling up.  Class will be covering Lucene 2.9.  See Lucene Boot Camp Training Session for more info and to register.

I can’t read it, but my IBM devWorks article on Apache Mahout has been translated to Japanese.  Check it out: Apache Mahout の紹介.

After Losing Users in Catalogs, Libraries Find Better Search Software – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Nice article on University libraries using Apache Solr (via Blacklight and VuFind)