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…
How cloud computing is revolutionizing pharma and genomics
Yesterday I attended an event hosted by Booz Allen/Amazon around Big Data and Cloud Computing for life sciences. It was a fascinating event that brought together folks from data…
LuceneRevolution 2012 Recap
I went to LuceneRevolution to test out my assertion that Search is the dominant metaphor for working with Big Data and based on the conversations that I had, that…
HIMSS HealthIT Wrapup
After a couple of exhausting days at HIMSS last week, where I was overwhelmed both by being a first time visitor to the glitz of Las Vegas and the…
Search Engine Testing and Apache Lucene Eurocon Oh My!
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…
Scott Stults to Speak on Solr Security at the Solr and Text Analytics Conference
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…
Search Is Not Just an IT Problem
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…
Agile2010: From Change to Planning to just being truly Present
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…
Software Estimation: Using Range Estimates in Scrum
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…
Software Estimation: You are not as good as you think
I know its a bit harsh to insult you in the title of this post, but the odds are, you really stink at estimation. Even if you know youre…
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…
12 Strategies for Selling a Traditional Client on an Agile Project Plan
Why do we need to sell Agile? For those of us who know and love Agile, the benefits of Agile seem obvious. It can be frustrating when someone doesnt…