Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

I just sent out to the mailing lists the official release announcements for Lucene and Solr 3.1.0 as well as posted over on the Lucid Imagination site the release announcement, etc. Lucid Imagination » Apache Lucene 3.1.0 and Apache Solr 3.1.0. Thanks to everyone for all their hard work in making these releases happen.

Building a recommendation engine, foursquare style | Foursquare Engineering Blog. Nice write up on how Foursquare built a recommendation engine and a little bit on how they are using Mahout!

Finally back in the saddle from SXSW, where a good time was had by all, AFAICT.  It was my first time, so it was a bit overwhelming.  So many people, so much hype, so much to do and see.  Suffice it to say, most of the hype was about social media.  Can you say Bubble?  [...]