Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Readers might find my first post on integrating Lucene/Solr and Mahout interesting:
Lucid Imagination » Integrating Apache Mahout with Apache Lucene and Solr – Part I (of 3).

Lucid Imagination » Free Webinar: Mastering Solr 1.4 with Yonik Seeley.
The title says it all.

Hardly news anymore about MS dropping support for *NIX platforms, but I especially like J Lawson’s nice little quote about their switch from FAST to Apache Solr/Lucene:
We very quickly switched to Apache Lucene, Solr and are very happy with the result. Performance is good, and we have cut hosting costs by a staggering 400%.
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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.

I just put up some initial info on the new Apache Lucene Connector Framework project that is now in ASF Incubation.  See Lucid Imagination » Apache Lucene Connector Framework now in Incubation at the ASF.

My latest article is up at IBM’s developerWorks on spatial search with Lucene and Solr.  Have a look at: Location-aware search with Apache Lucene and Solr.

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

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 just committed SOLR-1131 which adds a new concept to the Solr FieldType called poly fields.  Previously in Solr, there was pretty much a one to one relationship between a Field and a FieldType.  With PolyFields, it is now possible to model more complex structures that require more than one field to properly represent the [...]

I’m liking the looks of Apache Solr committer Shalin’s new website (right down to the cool domain name that lines up w/ his name!): check out Shalin Says….
Lot’s of good stuff on the Lucene ecosystem on his page.  I especially like his post on Why You Should Contribute to Open Source.