Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

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.

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!

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!

Just announced: Apache Lucene EuroCon – May 18-21 2010. CFP is now live for talks in Prague this May. I’m looking forward to my first visit to Prague and also looking forward to talking with all the great Lucene users over in Europe. Hope to see you there, Grant

Props to Jay Hill on an excellent article on things to watch for when setting up Solr: Lucid Imagination » The Seven Deadly Sins of Solr.

Lucid Imagination » Announcement: New LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Solr. Our new Solr distro is out, along w/ the reference guide.  Ref. guide can also be searched online via http://search.lucidimagination.com.

I spoke with Charles Humble from InfoQ yesterday about LucidGaze for Lucene.  You can read the details at InfoQ: Lucid Imagination Releases Performance Monitoring Utility for Apache Lucene.

In addition to Lucid’s online Solr training, we now offer public classroom training: Classroom Training Schedule | Enterprise Search support for Apache Lucene and Solr by Lucid Imagination.