Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

For those interested in how Monster uses Lucene to help you find a job, check out my podcast with Peter Keegan of Monster.com:
Grant Ingersoll Talks with Peter Keegan | Enterprise Search support for Apache Lucene and Solr by Lucid Imagination.
Peter has been a long time contributor to Lucene and is doing some cool things with [...]

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.

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.

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 lot!  [...]