September Chock Full of Talks (Dougtember?)
I somehow managed to line up a speaking gig for every week in September! I hope youll join me on this insane marathon. Ill be talking about topics key…
Introducing Splainer – The Open Source Search Sandbox That Tells You Why
One piece of feedback that has consistently come with our Quepid search testing tool is the need to understand “why” search results come back the order they do. In…
Using Quepid to Improve Relevancy of Advance Auto Parts Intranet Search
Recently, Advance Auto Parts contacted OSC to improve the search relevancy of their intranet application, Starting Line. Starting Line serves as the knowledge base for every store employee, so…
Improving The Camel Solr Component
Weve been using Apache Camel a fair amount recently as our ingestion pipeline of choice. It presents a fairly nice DSL for wiring together different data sources, performing transformations,…
Reindexing Collections with Solrs Cursor Support
When a Solr schema changes, us Solr devs know whats next – a large reindex of all of our data to capture any changes to index-time analysis. When we…
What is Search Relevance?
Have you ever tried a site’s search and been underwhelmed with the accuracy of the results? Do you find yourself feeling frustrated and leaving when the search doesn’t return…
Drupal Devs – Don’t Undervalue Relevant Site Search
Bring your search problems to our booth at DrupalCon! Drupal developers: raise your hand if you’ve ever been in this situation. You’re ready to deploy your app. You’ve developed…
Improving Angular Dirty Checking Performance
We build a lot of search applications, including our search relevancy workbench, Quepid or the US Patent and Trademarks Offices Global Patent Navigator Search. A big part of making…
Correctly Using Camels AdviceWith in Unit Tests
Ready to take your data from A to B through any terrain 🙂 We care a lot about the stuff that goes around Solr and Elasticsearch in our clients…
OSC Search Relevancy Talks coming to ApacheCon next week!
See you in Denver! Im looking forward to seeing everyone at ApacheCon in Denver next week! Ill be giving two talks this year. They both focus heavily on search…
Using CustomScoreQuery For Custom Solr/Lucene Scoring
This is a preview of a talk Ill be giving entitled Hacking Lucene for Custom Search Results at ApacheCon. Come join me April 7-9th in Denver! Lucene is the…
A Simple Promise Implementation in about 20 lines of Javascript
Promises are a rather convenient way of creating readable asynchronous code. More importantly, implementing Promises is a great way to hone your ability to grok async code. So follow…