Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

My Podcast with Digg.com Sr. Software Engineer Sammy Yu was just posted on Lucid’s website: Grant Ingersoll Talks with Sammy Yu | Enterprise Search support for Apache Lucene and Solr by Lucid Imagination

Lucid Imagination » Webinar: Get Started Faster, Get Better Results Still not too late to sign up.  Got a good crowd already, but the more the merrier.

In case you missed the announcement, Lucid Imagination has joined a new open source advocacy group called OSA – Open Source for America. While it is obvious that having the government use more open source would benefit me from a company standpoint, I think there are many other reasons to support such an effort.  First [...]

My company, Lucid Imagination, is now offering online classes for Solr.  Read Online Training Schedule | Enterprise Search support for Apache Lucene and Solr by Lucid Imagination for more details.

Trends: Interest in Lucene continues to accelerate Interesting take on Lucene adoption: job ads for Lucene (and Solr) are on the rise.  I can personally attest to this as well, as the the volume from recruiters hitting me up has definitely picked up in recent months. Although it really isn’t a surprise to those of [...]

A short high level piece that I did with CIOZone.com on Lucene/Solr and Lucid is available at CIOZone.com – Professional Network for CIOs and IT Professionals.

Just wanted to follow up on last night’s Lucene/Solr Meetup in San Francisco. First off, special thanks to all the speakers (Jason Rutherglen, Michael Busch, Erik Hatcher and all the lightning talks.)  We had a lot of excellent talks ranging from low level Lucene details on payloads and real time search to high level discussions [...]

I’ve done two new podcasts, one with independent Lucene/Solr/Mahout consultant Karl Wettin and Netflix’s search guru Walter Underwood.  As always, transcripts are provided (how else do you make it searchable?)

Lucid Imagination Enterprise Search using Apache Lucene and Solr. Lucid (my employer) is holding it’s first webinar on using Lucene and Solr to index and search your data.  You can sign up at the link above.  Erik Hatcher, co-author of “Lucene In Action” will be leading it.

Search Wizards Speak: Marc Krellenstein of Lucid Imagination :: ArnoldIT. Steve Arnold has a nice interview with the CTO of Lucid, Marc Krellenstein up on his website.