Coming this October, OpenSource Connections, in partnership with LucidWorks, is pleased to present two separate Solr training courses. Read on for all the details! Solr Unleashed- October 21-22 Solr…
Refer to my previous post for more in depth details into what Im doing here. This is just a quick reference regarding how Cassandra sets, lists, and maps work…
In the competition between field scores, theres little fairness. When you learn about the dismax query parser for the first time, one of the first things you learn about…
Updated 8/19/2017 to fix web links State codes are wretched. Seriously, look at a few: California’s, New York’s, Illinois’, and Texas’ are all good examples of how stunningly difficult…
Over the next couple of weeks, we will be posting a 4-part series introduction to Cassandra. This series will take you through all of the basic components of setting up…
We’ve been developing rich client-side applications that talk directly to Solr’s HTTP interface from Javascript – requiring a publicly accessible Solr. One concern that you’ll naturally have with Solr…
In my previous post, I talked about implementing Search-As-You-Type using Solr. In this post Ill cover a closely related functionality called Suggest-As-You-Type. Heres the use case: A user comes…
In my previous post, I talked about implementing Suggest-As-You-Type using Solr. In this post I’ll cover a closely related functionality called Suggest-As-You-Type. Several years back, Google introduced an interesting…
In our recent and continuing effort to make the world a better place, we have been working with the illustrious Waldo Jaquith on a project called StateDecoded. Basically, were…
Over the past few weeks Ive been working with Elasticsearch. However, what I really have been missing is a good deployment system. Elasticsearch has a chef provisioning tutorial on…
A pretty subtle change happened in the transition from Lucene/Solr 3 to 4. The abstract method for CharFilterFactory changed from public CharStream create(CharStream input); to public abstract Reader create(Reader…
In our daily adventures on our computers and the Internet, we often find/create notes or documents that we would like to keep for later, that we attempt to organize….