Archive for the 'Lucene' Category
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.
February 24th, 2010 | Posted in Lucene | No Comments
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 [...]
February 16th, 2010 | Posted in Lucene, Mahout | 6 Comments
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%.
via J [...]
February 8th, 2010 | Posted in Apache, Lucene, Solr | 4 Comments
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.
January 20th, 2010 | Posted in Apache, Lucene, Lucene Connector Framework, Solr | No Comments
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.
January 12th, 2010 | Posted in Apache, Lucene, Solr | 2 Comments
Details and RSVP at: SFBay Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup San Mateo, CA – Meetup.com.
January 12th, 2010 | Posted in Apache, Lucene, Mahout, Nutch, Open Relevance, Solr, Tika | No Comments
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.
January 8th, 2010 | Posted in Apache, Lucene, Lucid Imagination, Solr | No Comments
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 [...]
December 24th, 2009 | Posted in Apache, Lucene, Solr | 9 Comments
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.
December 17th, 2009 | Posted in Apache, Lucene, Solr | No Comments
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.
December 9th, 2009 | Posted in Lucene | No Comments