Mark Miller shows how to add Lucid’s Lucene ecosystem search as a Firefox plugin.  Now you can search all the Lucene project (and subproject) archives, website, wiki from the comfort of your browser plugin.

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.  I am going to structure the class such that the first day is more high-level stuff (but still with some coding) while the second day will be much more hands-on.  Thus, for managers, CTOs, non-programmers, who just want to understand Lucene and Solr, they can easily plan on attending 1 day of each.

Lucene Boot Camp (http://www.lucenebootcamp.com) is scheduled this year for ApacheCon US on November 3 and 4th in New Orleans.  This year, I am doing a two day event, as I felt the one day event was just not enough time to get in all the goodness that is Lucene (not that two days is either, but…)  Additionally, by having two days, the class will have more time to explore and develop the examples with the class and more one on one time.  There is also a fair amount of new material in Lucene these days, so I am going to be updating the examples, etc. on the website and changing things up a bit.

This class has traditionally filled up pretty fast.  In Amsterdam this past April, there was even a waiting list, so I recommend signing up early.

Also, for those coming from the US, note that the class is scheduled over on Tuesday, Nov. 4, which is election day.  Not sure who decided that one, but, if you’re planning on voting and attending my class, make sure you get an absentee ballot.  Which reminds me…