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Lucene: A Tacit Admission of Fail? : ob.blog
If ob.blog gave this post a moment of thought before sharing it with the world, he would quickly realize that hosting a live, 24/7, high traffic site takes more than just some code that one can execute. Perhaps ob.blog is volunteering to donate computing resources, support staff, [...]

The Two Flavors of Google
Nice article on Hadoop at Business Week and some good quotes from Lucene Java creator Doug Cutting.  Hadoop holds a lot of promise for the future of large scale computing, although I don’t want to burden it with that kind of claim, either.  In the end, it makes solving a good [...]

ApacheCon EU 2008
Schedule is out for ApacheCon Europe.  I will be doing my Lucene Boot Camp training and a Lucene Performance talk.  Erik Hatcher will also be doing a Solr Boot Camp and a Lucene/Solr talk.  There will also be some Hadoop talks.

Interesting comparison of open source search engines available at http://wrg.upf.edu/WRG/dctos/Middleton-Baeza.pdf.   While it reflects OK on Lucene (hey, we can’t be perfect at everything,) I am interested in finding out more details about what settings were used for indexing.  If they just used the out of the box settings, then I would argue that they need [...]

The benefits of opening up | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs
Nice little plug of Lucene from Alfresco…

I have setup a new site to support my Lucene Boot Camp training.  Check it out at http://lucenebootcamp.com.  From there, you can download training setup information, read the class outline, etc.

Lots of good things happening in Lucene land lately, all of which should benefit users with faster indexing and searching capabilities.  Most notably, Lucene 2.3 (hopefully released this quarter) has some major changes in indexing memory management and performance.  I have personally clocked indexing using release 2.2 at about 400 rec/s (single threaded, Mac Pro [...]

Just a friendly reminder, I am giving my Lucene Boot Camp training at ApacheCon Atlanta this year (November.)  Still plenty of time to sign up.  Details on the class are here.  Also, feel free to email me with any questions or things you would like to see.  My apache.org email is gsingers.  I will be [...]

Welcome to the Triangle Java Users Group
I will be speaking November 19, 2007 at the Triangle Java Users Group on Lucene and Solr.   The talk will be an introduction to the features and capabilities of both Lucene and Solr, as well as some basic compare and contrast information.

Looks like they have put up the ApacheCon Atlanta schedule. As usual, there looks to be several very good talks covering Lucene and Solr, including talks by Chris Hostetter, Ken Krugler, Michael Busch and yours truly. My talk is at 3pm on November 16, details are here.
I will also be leading my “Lucene [...]