Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Jukka Zitting and Chris Mattmann’s Tika in Action is now available.  I’ve added a link on the right in addition to the one here.  Looks to be a good book for those who need an open source tool to process things like MS Word, Adobe PDF, etc.

Join the Lucene Revolution in Boston October 2010 | www.lucenerevolution.org. Hope to see you in Boston!

Really enjoyed my conversation with Michael Coté earlier in the week on NoSQL, Lucene/Solr as a persistence engine and a variety of other topics.  You can hear the conversation at: RedMonk Podcasts.

Just announced: Apache Lucene EuroCon – May 18-21 2010. CFP is now live for talks in Prague this May. I’m looking forward to my first visit to Prague and also looking forward to talking with all the great Lucene users over in Europe. Hope to see you there, Grant

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

Just wanted to follow up on last night’s Lucene/Solr Meetup in San Francisco. First off, special thanks to all the speakers (Jason Rutherglen, Michael Busch, Erik Hatcher and all the lightning talks.)  We had a lot of excellent talks ranging from low level Lucene details on payloads and real time search to high level discussions [...]

LuceneMeetupMarch2009 – Lucene-java Wiki Looks like an interesting crowd is forming for the Lucene meetup at ApacheCon EU this year.  Even if you aren’t attending the conference, you can still go to the Meetup.  We’ve got a lot of the Lucene ecosystem projects covered by the looks of it: Lucene, Solr, Mahout, Tika, Droids.  Hope [...]

Lucid Imagination » Add our Lucene Ecosystem Search Engine to Firefox Mark Miller shows how to add Lucid’s Lucene ecosystem search as a Firefox plugin.  Now you can search all the Lucene project (and subproject) archives, website, wiki from the comfort of your browser plugin.

SummerOfCode2009 – General Wiki It’s that time of year again.  Time for students to sign up for Google Summer of Code.  Gist of it:  Get paid to work in Open Source for the summer. I’ve signed up to mentor for Apache Mahout.  We are looking for students interested in implementing cutting-edge machine learning algorithms, optionally [...]

Some of you may have noted that I’ve been quieter than usual lately.  Well, the reason is I was preparing for the launch of the new company I helped found: Lucid Imagination.   Now, I don’t blog too often about what I do for work on this site, other than it is Lucene, Solr and [...]