Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Just announced: Apache Lucene EuroCon – May 18-21 2010. CFP is now live for talks in Prague this May. I’m looking forward to my first visit to Prague and also looking forward to talking with all the great Lucene users over in Europe. Hope to see you there, Grant

ApacheCon EU 2008 Schedule is out for ApacheCon Europe.  I will be doing my Lucene Boot Camp training and a Lucene Performance talk.  Erik Hatcher will also be doing a Solr Boot Camp and a Lucene/Solr talk.  There will also be some Hadoop talks.

The latest version of my slides for “Advanced Lucene” are located at http://www.cnlp.org/presentations/present.asp?show=conference Talk covered term vectors, using various query types and Lucene performance tips and tricks.

My (slightly old) slides for ApacheCon Europe are now available in the conference proceedings available at http://eu.apachecon.com/downloads/materials.zip I will post the latest version soon, but there is very little difference between this version and the latest. Topics covered include Lucene performance, term vectors and query tips and tricks. Feedback is always welcome

As I posted earlier, I will be giving a talk and a tutorial at ApacheCon Europe this year on the Apache Lucene Java project. My talk is titled “Advance Lucene”. Here is the abstract: Lucene Java is a high performance, scalable, cross-platform search engine that contains many advanced features that often are under utilized by [...]