Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

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.

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 [...]

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%.
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I just put up some initial info on the new Apache Lucene Connector Framework project that is now in ASF Incubation.  See Lucid Imagination » Apache Lucene Connector Framework now in Incubation at the ASF.

My latest article is up at IBM’s developerWorks on spatial search with Lucene and Solr.  Have a look at: Location-aware search with Apache Lucene and Solr.

Details and RSVP at: SFBay Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup San Mateo, CA – Meetup.com.

Lucid Imagination » Announcement: New LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Solr.
Our new Solr distro is out, along w/ the reference guide.  Ref. guide can also be searched online via http://search.lucidimagination.com.

I just committed SOLR-1131 which adds a new concept to the Solr FieldType called poly fields.  Previously in Solr, there was pretty much a one to one relationship between a Field and a FieldType.  With PolyFields, it is now possible to model more complex structures that require more than one field to properly represent the [...]

I’m liking the looks of Apache Solr committer Shalin’s new website (right down to the cool domain name that lines up w/ his name!): check out Shalin Says….
Lot’s of good stuff on the Lucene ecosystem on his page.  I especially like his post on Why You Should Contribute to Open Source.

Mahout – Taste :: Part 1 – Introduction « JTeam Blog / JTeam: Enterprise Java, Open Source, software solutions, Amsterdam.
JTeam has a nice intro to using Mahout’s collaborative filtering capabilities up on their website.