Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

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!

Lucid Imagination » Free Webinar: How Cisco’s Pulse uses Lucene/Solr to put Social Networks to Work. ‘Nuff said.

ccri – Blog – Latent Semantic Analysis in Solr using Clojure.  I’ve been watching the github site for a while, nice to see some more written up on it.

Amazon has a nice Guardian Case Study: Amazon Web Services up on their website about how the Guardian is using EC2 for scaling their Open Platform API.  If you’ve been following along, the little boxes in the picture (the blue and gold ones) are actually Apache Solr.   If you want to read more about the [...]

Join the Lucene Revolution in Boston October 2010 | www.lucenerevolution.org. Hope to see you in Boston!

Yonik Seeley and Breck Baldwin will each be presenting next week in NYC on Solr and Lucene.  Details at: NYC Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup 11 May 2010 – NYC Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup New York, NY – Meetup.com.

Really enjoyed my conversation with Michael Coté earlier in the week on NoSQL, Lucene/Solr as a persistence engine and a variety of other topics.  You can hear the conversation at: RedMonk Podcasts.

Lucene Boot Camp » Lucene Boot Camp Europe: May 18-19 in Prague.

Chris Hostetter is now a part of Lucid Imagination on a full time basis.  Check out his first blog post at Lucid Imagination » Why Lucene? Why Lucid?. Welcome aboard, Hoss!