Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

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

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.

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

Details and RSVP at: SFBay Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup San Mateo, CA – Meetup.com.

SFBay Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup San Mateo, CA – Meetup.com. Lucene/Solr Meetup, June 3 http://www.meetup.com/SFBay-Lucene-Solr-Meetup/ Join us for an evening of presentations and discussion on Lucene/Solr/Nutch/Mahout (and the rest of the Lucene ecosystem), the Apache Open Source Search Engine/Platform, featuring: -Erik Hatcher, Apache Lucene/Solr PMC: Solr power your data: How to get up an running in [...]

BarCamp wiki / BarCampRDU I’ll be at BarCampRDU tomorrow.  I proposed two sessions, one on Hadoop and Mahout and one on Lucene and Solr.  I don’t think I really want to do both, but I would like to do at least one, so we’ll see what other people are interested in. If you’re around and [...]

For a while now, I have been trying to get my hands on TREC data for the Lucene project.  For those who aren’t familiar, TREC is an annual competition for search engines that provides a common set of documents to index, queries to execute and judgments to check your answers to see how good an [...]

FeatherCast » Blog Archive » Episode 43: Lucene I did a FeatherCast today with Rich Bowen.  Dang, he is quick at editing…

Coderspiel / The right tool for the slob This guy’s comment system wasn’t working at the moment, so I will leave my comment here. This won’t make much sense without reading the post first: It’s funny you mention Wikipedia as an example, since they are running Lucene. As is Technorati and the Internet Archive. As [...]