The Annual Search Shootout – Search strategy for TREC News
This is the second post in my blog series about participating in TREC 2020. If you want some background about what exactly is TREC, check out my first post….
Stop chasing the Search Unicorn when building a search team!
I’ve had several conversations with clients recently who are perfectly aware that to make a step change in their ability to deliver great search, they’re going to need some…
Haystack 2020 retrospective – going virtual
Two weeks ago we ran our first ever virtual relevance conference – Haystack 2020, as part of a combined week of events including Berlin Buzzwords and MICES, the e-commerce…
Why Haystack? Democratizing Search Relevance!
We’re proud to be putting on another Haystack in late April. But why? A few people have asked me why we need another search conference? What’s the purpose behind…
OSC welcomes you to the Friday after 12 Hack-and-Tell
For the past several months OpenSource Connections headquarters has served as an underground, no-cost coworking hot spot, and weve had such a good time with it that weve decided…
Conference Recap: Defcon
Last week I went to Defcon, the premiere security conference that attracted 15,000 security experts and Will Smith to Las Vegas. Here are a few lessons I learned hanging…
Tomorrow is Semantic Day at OpenSource Connections
Tim Berners-Lee original vision was for the web is what we today call the Semantic Web: I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable ofanalyzing…
Forget Search, Lets Talk Discovery – A Recap of Enterprise Search Summit
The middle of May saw me road tripping to not just one, but two Enterprise Search Summits to tell some war stories in doing search at scale. I attended…
OpenSource Connections is proud to host beSwarm 4
Opensource Connections is proud to host beSwarm What beSwarm is a gathering of tech enthusiasts from all over central Virginia to discuss, share, and learn about anything that interests…
Thinking about Solr 4 Book Update
Im just starting to think about updating the book Solr Enterprise Search Server that David Smiley and I co-authored for Solr 4 now that it is very close to…
CodeFloat 2012 “by the numbers”
For the past year Ive been talking with Christopher Ball and Erik Hatcher about how frustrating it is to have to carve time out of our regular day jobs…
Talking Solr in Las Vegas, February 22, 2012 7:00 PM
Do you like Solr? Live in Las Vegas? Are you going to be in Vegas on Wednesday, February 22, 2012? Like free dinner? If this sounds like you, then…