Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

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 Boot [...]

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 [...]

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 faceted browsing. [...]

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. Feedback is always welcome

Michael Busch recently committed some code that enables Lucene to store payloads at the term level (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-755) and I have started working on enabling these payloads to be incorporated into search and scoring. (see http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/Payload_Planning and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-834) So, you might be asking yourself, what exactly are payloads good for?  Naturally, the answer is a [...]

As I posted earlier, I will be giving a talk and a tutorial at ApacheCon Europe this year on the Apache Lucene Java project. My talk is titled “Advance Lucene”. Here is the abstract: Lucene Java is a high performance, scalable, cross-platform search engine that contains many advanced features that often are under utilized by [...]