A Vagrant Conversation
Vagrant is great… most of the time Vagrant is a powerful tool for setting up development environments quickly. But just like any other tool, there are use cases where…
Using SolrJ CloudSolrServer and retrieving JSON
On a project I’m working on we want to return the Solr JSON formatted results to our rich front end application based on the Spyglass framework. However, in order…
Two Search Conferences in Two Weeks Was Too Informative
This year I experienced the conference equivalent of a lunar eclipse: two search conferences in two weeks located two hours away from my home town of Charlottesville, Virginia! Enterprise…
What is Search Relevance?
Have you ever tried a site’s search and been underwhelmed with the accuracy of the results? Do you find yourself feeling frustrated and leaving when the search doesn’t return…
Links I shared at New York City Solr/Lucene Meetup
Thank you everyone who came to my war stories talk on Wednesday. Really enjoyed the conversation, thanks to everyone for asking so many questions! Here are some of the…
Drupal Devs – Don’t Undervalue Relevant Site Search
Bring your search problems to our booth at DrupalCon! Drupal developers: raise your hand if you’ve ever been in this situation. You’re ready to deploy your app. You’ve developed…
OSC Search Relevancy Talks coming to ApacheCon next week!
See you in Denver! Im looking forward to seeing everyone at ApacheCon in Denver next week! Ill be giving two talks this year. They both focus heavily on search…
OSC Improves DukeMedicine Search Relevancy using Quepid
Visit www.dukemedicine.org to check out our search improvements! Recently we were brought in as part of the search team for DukeMedicine’s new portal to resolve crucial search quality issues….
Come Learn about Test Driven Search Relevancy at DC Solr Users Group!
Is your search testing done in a spreadsheet? You need Quepid Do you struggle with troublesome search queries? Do you find it hard to balance the many conflicting requirements…
Cut Through the Clutter: Use Clustering to Suggest Facets
I have a concrete counter top in our kitchen that is rather different from most concrete counter tops because it is coloured with a thin surface layer of multiple…
Async Solr Queries in Python
I frequently hit the wall of needing to work asynchronously with Solr requests in Python. Ill have some code that blocks on a Solr HTTP request, waits for it…
Adventures in Cross-Site Scripting
Dont cross the streams! One big component of making our search relevancy tool Quepid simple to use is the ability to just paste in a Solr search URL and…