Matt Overstreet was the Master of Ceremonies for the Richmond Startup Weekend earlier this month. And the guest speaker was Aneesh Chopra, first CTO of the United States. Matt…
My colleague Scott Stults talks about our experiences in using Amazon EC2 to perform distributed indexing into Solr as well as reprocessing a million TIFF images. At one point…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Im very excited to be returning to another edition of STPCon, this year in Nashville! This year I will be unveiling a new talk: Better Search Engine Testing, as…
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…
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…
\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…
