Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

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

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-843 This patch, by Michael McCandless pretty much sums up what I love about Lucene and what makes Lucene an extraordinary open source project. Take Lucene, which already has a pretty strong reputation as being fast, and add in a motivated committer (which Lucene has a high number of, IMO) and out comes a patch [...]

Version 2.1.0 of Apache Lucene is now available.  It includes many new performance enhancements and features.  Users should note that it changes the Lucene index file format, so previous versions of Lucene will not be able to read a 2.1.0 version of Lucene.  Lucene 2.1.0 will be able to read older versions, however. Lucene, new [...]

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 [...]

I have received official word from ApacheCon that 2 of my proposals have been accepted. I will be giving the “Advanced Lucene” talk on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007. This talk will focus on advanced querying capabilities, term vectors and Lucene performance. I will also be giving a full day tutorial on Lucene Java on May [...]

[#LUCENE-753] Use NIO positional read to avoid synchronization in FSIndexInput – ASF JIRA Want a crash course in NIO and fast IO in Java?  Then take a look at this issue for Lucene and then go do your homework.  The transferTo() trick is something I haven’t seen before and was a bit blown away by.  [...]