Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

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 [...]

I just posted this to java-user@lucene.a.o and thought I would share here as well:
Calling all Lucene Users!
You know you love Lucene for a whole variety of reasons (fast, friendly, fun, did I say fast?) so how about showing a little love back? 
We (as in the committers and contributors) are trying out a new [...]

The first of my two part series on Solr appeared yesterday on IBM’s developerWorks, titled “Search Smarter with Apache Solr, Part 1: Essential Features and the Solr Schema“. The first article covers getting started with Solr and contains a simple application demonstrating some of the features of Solr, like XML based indexing and [...]

The latest version of my slides for “Advanced Lucene” are located at http://www.cnlp.org/presentations/present.asp?show=conference
Talk covered term vectors, using various query types and Lucene performance tips and tricks.

Nice presentation on Atlassian’s use of Lucene at http://blogs.atlassian.com/rebelutionary/archives/2007/04/my_serverside_java_symposium_2007_presen.html

My (slightly old) slides for ApacheCon Europe are now available in the conference proceedings available at http://eu.apachecon.com/downloads/materials.zip
I will post the latest version soon, but there is very little difference between this version and the latest.
Topics covered include Lucene performance, term vectors and query tips and tricks.
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