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…
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?”…
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…
Favicon and Rails? Want to use a favicon.ico but dont want to put it at the root as favicon.ico? Then add
Today, Microsoft announced that it was abandoning development of the FAST search engine for Linux and Unix. Given that Microsoft paid $1.2 billion for FAST, the move is an…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
The book Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server by David Smiley and OSCs own Eric Pugh will be published next month from Packt Publishing. You can find out more about…
