Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

In case you haven’t heard, and are in Europe this June (or want to be), you should check out the Berlin Buzzwords conference.  It’s a great conference for all things related to Lucene, Solr, Hadoop, Mahout, NoSQL and generally scaling.  The CFP is open now through March 11.

Drew, Tom and I are feverishly working away on finishing up Taming Text.  We are currently in the process of addressing the feedback we got from our final review and should have updates up soon.  I have also posted all of the book’s source code up on Github under the Taming Text user.  The source includes, [...]

After some time away, I’m happy to have had some time recently to work on Mahout again.  Lots of goodness all over the place happening there that I’ll leave to others to explain while I focus in on a few recent things I’ve been doing. First off, I was doing a fair amount of work [...]

I’m on the hot seat for “Stump the Chump” this year at Lucene Revolution, so if you have questions you want me to tackle, please either show up at my talk or email them to info@lucenerevolution.org.  See Session Abstracts | Day 1 | www.lucenerevolution.org for more information.

I just sent out to the mailing lists the official release announcements for Lucene and Solr 3.1.0 as well as posted over on the Lucid Imagination site the release announcement, etc. Lucid Imagination » Apache Lucene 3.1.0 and Apache Solr 3.1.0. Thanks to everyone for all their hard work in making these releases happen.

Finally back in the saddle from SXSW, where a good time was had by all, AFAICT.  It was my first time, so it was a bit overwhelming.  So many people, so much hype, so much to do and see.  Suffice it to say, most of the hype was about social media.  Can you say Bubble?  [...]

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If you missed the Lucene Revolution conference, especially the training on Apache Solr and Lucene, don’t worry.  You won’t have to wait long for the next round, both Erik Hatcher (co-author of Lucene In Action) and I will be giving trainings at ApacheCon in Atlanta in November. To learn more and sign up, see: Lucene [...]

Erik Hatcher and I are once again offering our Lucene and Solr training classes, but this time there are two opportunities to participate.  The first will be at Lucene Revolution on October 5 and 6.  The second is on Nov. 1st and 2nd at ApacheCon NA 2010.  Both classes are designed to get people up [...]

Lucid Imagination » Free Webinar: How Cisco’s Pulse uses Lucene/Solr to put Social Networks to Work. ‘Nuff said.