Should I Deploy Solr 4.0?
I recently had an IRC conversation about Solr 4.0. The main question that the person who was chatting with me had was “How far out is the 4.0 release?”…
Top Three Drivers of Solr Adoption
Weve been talking to our customers to understand why they are adopting Solr. Is it because its a great product from the Apache Software Foundation? Is it because Lucene…
Be Effective When Working In a Really Cool/Fun/Distracting Place
Where are Eric and Youssef? This year two OSC folks are working remotely for extended periods of time. Youssef spent 6 weeks in Lebanon earlier this year, and I…
When talking time zones: Bogota != Eastern Time (US & Canada)!
Ive been using the timezone localization technique of asking the browser when the page loads what the browsers timezone offset from UTC is, and posting that back to the…
beCamp 2010 is April 30 & May 1st
\n beCamp 2010 is almost here! April 30th and May 1st are just four weeks away!\n \n\n \n If youre a geek in or around the Charlottesville metroplex or…
Things I Learned About Last Week
Last week was the crucial week on my current Lucene -> Solr conversion project for making our goals. A lot of work the previous couple of weeks came together. I…
Notes from using LucidWorks for Solr Distro
Ive been playing with the LucidWorks for Solr distribution of Solr 1.4, and wanted to share some of things I had noticed about it. The LucidWorks distro is Solr…
Erik Hatcher, Solr Committer, reviews Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server
When I first got involved in writing Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server I knew that one of the folks I wanted to have review the book was Erik Hatcher,…
Streaming Index Progress Results to Browser
I recently needed to index from a local filesystem several thousand static webpages into Solr. I was already using Ruby on Rails for the admin interface, so I quickly…
James Bach, the bad boy of Testing?
So, is James Bach (@jamesmarcusbach) the bad boy of testing? I flew up to Boston on Monday to lead some workshops on Continuous Integration. I checked into my room…
Eric Pugh to speak on Solr at Shenandoah Ruby Users Group October 27th
From the Meetup site: Well look at the thriving Ruby ecosystem that has grown up around integrating with Solr. From Ruby gems that integrate with Solr like solrb and…
Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server Book is Released!
I am very proud to announce the first book on Solr has been published by Packt. This has been a labor of love for myself and my co-author David…