Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Finally back in the saddle from SXSW, where a good time was had by all, AFAICT.  It was my first time, so it was a bit overwhelming.  So many people, so much hype, so much to do and see.  Suffice it to say, most of the hype was about social media.  Can you say Bubble?  [...]

I’m pretty excited about my upcoming speaking schedule, so I thought I would share it here.  If you’re around, drop by and I’d be happy to talk Lucene, Solr, Mahout, etc. Feb. 11, 2011, 12 PM: Univ. of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS); Manning Hall 208, Chapel Hill, NC.  [...]

I posted my thoughts on the year 2010 as they relate to Lucene over at Lucid Imagination » The Apache Lucene Ecosystem: My View of 2010.

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My slides from last week’s Bay Area Meetup are at http://www.meetup.com/SFBay-Lucene-Solr-Meetup/files/

My podcast with Michael Coté over at Redmonk is now posted: Coté’s People Over Process » Apache Mahout & the commoditization of machine learning with Grant Ingersoll at ApacheCon 2010 – make all #013.

If you missed the Lucene Revolution conference, especially the training on Apache Solr and Lucene, don’t worry.  You won’t have to wait long for the next round, both Erik Hatcher (co-author of Lucene In Action) and I will be giving trainings at ApacheCon in Atlanta in November. To learn more and sign up, see: Lucene [...]

Erik Hatcher and I are once again offering our Lucene and Solr training classes, but this time there are two opportunities to participate.  The first will be at Lucene Revolution on October 5 and 6.  The second is on Nov. 1st and 2nd at ApacheCon NA 2010.  Both classes are designed to get people up [...]

The next TriHUG meeting has been announced:  Sept. 14.  There will be two speakers: Wei Wei on Practical Hadoop Security and Me on Hadoop and Lucene and Solr. For more info and to RSVP, see Triangle Hadoop Users Group.

My podcast with Lucene In Action 2 (http://lucene.li/e) co-authors Erik Hatcher, Michael McCandless and Otis Gospodnetic is now live: Authors’ Podcast: Lucene in Action, Second Edition | Lucid Imagination. Hope you enjoy!