Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

What’s new with Apache Solr.
My latest article on Apache Solr, title “What’s New with Apache Solr” is now available over at IBM developerWorks.  It covers some of the new features like spell checking, Data Import Handler, distributed search, editorial results placement (a.k.a. “paid placement”), SolrJ and a variety of other pieces.
Hope it is helpful…  Feel [...]

I’ve had a chance recently to work on some things in Solr that I think that can, in the right circumstances, really enhance Solr.
First off, is SOLR-651, which implements what I am calling a Term Vector Component. The basic gist of it is that Solr can now serve up term vectors from Lucene.  For those [...]

Code Fury
The author of this nice plugin for WordPress contacted me today about his Lucene based WordPress plugin, so I thought I would give it a try, as I’m obviously a big fan of Lucene and also never much cared for MySql’s search (in)capabilities.
The plugin is easy enough to install, only thing that struck me [...]

Just committed SOLR-572 yesterday, which adds a spell checking component to Solr.  Now, Solr had a spell checking request handler before, but a component is slightly different.  Request Handlers require separate calls, whereas a component can be inlined in a request.  Essentially, a Request Handler can be made up of one or more SearchComponents.
What this [...]