Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

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!

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!

Just wanted to follow up on last night’s Lucene/Solr Meetup in San Francisco.
First off, special thanks to all the speakers (Jason Rutherglen, Michael Busch, Erik Hatcher and all the lightning talks.)  We had a lot of excellent talks ranging from low level Lucene details on payloads and real time search to high level discussions on [...]

It’s been a while since I reported anything on Mahout (here’s why), but thought I would give an update.  I know it’s been promised before, but the committers have been diligently working on a 0.1 release, which should be out very soon.  I think I have all the Maven release stuff in place and am [...]

Some of you may have noted that I’ve been quieter than usual lately.  Well, the reason is I was preparing for the launch of the new company I helped found: Lucid Imagination.   Now, I don’t blog too often about what I do for work on this site, other than it is Lucene, Solr and [...]

Congratulations to Apache Tika (nevermind the incubator address, it’s still in the process of migrating) for graduating from Incubation!   And welcome to the Lucene project!  Tika is a content extraction framework that wraps many other content extraction libraries such as PDFBox, POI, and others into a single, easy to use framework that makes it easy [...]

What’s new with Apache Solr.
My latest article on Apache Solr, title “What’s New with Apache Solr” is now available over at IBM developerWorks.  It covers some of the new features like spell checking, Data Import Handler, distributed search, editorial results placement (a.k.a. “paid placement”), SolrJ and a variety of other pieces.
Hope it is helpful…  Feel [...]

Charlotte JUG » October Slides Available – Search & Analysis
Had a lot of fun at my recent talk at the Charlotte JUG.  They’ve got a good core of people and there was a lot of good discussion about the topic. Even managed to give away some free eBooks of “Taming Text“.  Wish I would have [...]

Just a quick reminder that there is just over one week left before Lucene Boot Camp at this year’s ApacheCon.
This year, it is a 2 day training, but for those who want to, they can sign up for the first day of Lucene Boot Camp, and then attend Solr Boot Camp on the second day.  [...]