Yesterday, Netflix announced the separation of its DVD-by-mail division into a new entity called Qwikster. The new company will have a separate website and focus entirely on mail delivery…
Eric Pugh got notified today that hes been accepted to speak on “Better Search Engine Testing” at the 2011 Apache Lucene Eurocon. So, what, you may ask, does search…
On August 15, OpenSource Connections, along with Lucid Imagination and SAIC, are hosting the inaugural Charlottesville Solr/Lucene Meetup at SAICs office in the UVa Research Park. It will be…
Oftentimes, we see e-commerce marketers who spend a lot of time on the design of their website, make it look pretty, have rounded corners, and follow all of the…
I just came back from the 2011 DI2E conference in Dallas, Texas and certainly left with a lot of impressions. I want to state up front that my impressions…
OSCs Scott Stults and Michael Herndon are currently at Lucene Revolution and Scott was interviewed by CMSWire about the value of getting a Solr certification. You can watch his…
Jason Hull discusses OpenSource Connections participation in the National Veteran Small Business Conference and how their move to focus primarily on Solr affects the business on the latest VAntage…
OpenSource Connections own Michael Herndon has been added to the Lucene.NET committer list. The project website can be found here. Lucene.Net targets the C# and .NET platform for an…
Were thrilled to announce that Scott Stults was presented to speak on the topic of Multi-Level Security (MLS) with Solr at the Open Source Search Conference: Lucene and Solr…
Editors Note: This post was originally published November 24th, 2011. I recently attended the Fall 2010 Enterprise Search Summit anticipating that it would be a battle of the search…
A couple weeks ago I went to the Agile2010 conference in Orlando, and it was a really great experience. I really enjoyed giving my talk on range estimation in…
Recently I wrote a blog post on why software developers are typically so bad at estimation. I also gave a preview of the presentation that I am giving today…
