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…
Come Learn about Test Driven Search Relevancy at DC Solr Users Group!
Is your search testing done in a spreadsheet? You need Quepid Do you struggle with troublesome search queries? Do you find it hard to balance the many conflicting requirements…
Build your own Custom Lucene query and scorer
Every now and then we’ll come across a search problem that can’t simply be solved with plain Solr relevancy. This usually means a customer knows exactly how documents should…
Subredis – Keyspaces in Redis
We’ve been using Redis extensively for Quepid, our search relevancy collaboration canvas. Redis is a convenient and efficient way to interact with in-memory data structures. In fact, we’ve been…
Codd’s Relational Vision – Has NoSQL come full circle?
Recently, I spoke at NoSQL Matters in Barcelona about database history. As somebody with a history background, I was pretty excited to dig into the past, beyond the hype…
Async Solr Queries in Python
I frequently hit the wall of needing to work asynchronously with Solr requests in Python. Ill have some code that blocks on a Solr HTTP request, waits for it…
Adventures in Cross-Site Scripting
Dont cross the streams! One big component of making our search relevancy tool Quepid simple to use is the ability to just paste in a Solr search URL and…
Search Quality is about effective Collaboration*
*and Effective Collaboration is about Testing Sales expert not happy about the quality of her search. Shed like a better way to collaborate than yelling at the search devs….
What is Test Driven Search Relevancy?
During a challenging search project, we realized that we were simply trying to accomplish too much. The demands to create relevant search results were intense. The deadline looming. Presented…
OSC To Have Three speakers at Lucene Revolution!
If youd like to catch up with us and youre in Europe, theres few better places to hear what were all about than at one of our talks at…