Archive for February, 2010

Lucid Imagination » Free Webinar: Mastering Solr 1.4 with Yonik Seeley

Lucid Imagination » Free Webinar: Mastering Solr 1.4 with Yonik Seeley.
The title says it all.

February 24th, 2010 | Posted in Solr | No Comments

When using open source makes you an enemy of the state | Technology | guardian.co.uk

When using open source makes you an enemy of the state | Technology | guardian.co.uk.
Scary to think that me choosing to give my work away could be considered against the law in some places.

February 24th, 2010 | Posted in Lucene | No Comments

TriJUG: Intro to Mahout Slides and Demo examples

First off, big thank you to TriJUG and all the attendees for allowing me to present Apache Mahout last night.  Also a big thank you to Red Hat for providing a most excellent meeting space.  Finally, to Manning Publications for providing vouchers for Taming Text and Mahout In Action for the end of the night [...]

February 16th, 2010 | Posted in Lucene, Mahout | 7 Comments

Apache Mahout talk at Triangle Java User’s Group

For those who live in the Triangle, I’ll be giving an intro talk on Mahout next Monday.  See Welcome to the Triangle Java Users Group for more details.  Due note the location is no longer in RTP, but at the Red Hat campus at NCSU.
Hope to see you there!

February 9th, 2010 | Posted in Apache, Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Hadoop, Java, Mahout, North Carolina, Raleigh, Triangle | No Comments

FAST to Solr for *NIX

Hardly news anymore about MS dropping support for *NIX platforms, but I especially like J Lawson’s nice little quote about their switch from FAST to Apache Solr/Lucene:
We very quickly switched to Apache Lucene, Solr and are very happy with the result. Performance is good, and we have cut hosting costs by a staggering 400%.
via J [...]

February 8th, 2010 | Posted in Apache, Lucene, Solr | 4 Comments