Splainer: A Solr Developers Best Friend
Do you know about Splainer? It’s our handy-dandy, free and open source tool for developers working with Solr search results. In addition to Quepid, it’s become my favorite go…
Copy & Paste your git status logs like a pro
It’s time to fill out your timesheet, again. You’ve put in a full week of work but remembering everything you’ve accomplished can be difficult when you’re jumping between projects….
Visualizing your Location Data with OpenLayers
Do you have location data in your Solr index? Are you making use of it? A typical thing that comes to mindwhen thinking about search results is a list…
Recap of VLDS Insights Conference
VLDS Insights Conference Recap Yesterday I had the privilege of attending the VLDS Insights conference. VLDS is the Virginia Longitudinal Data System, which provides researchers and policy makers anonymized…
“Relevant Search” Chapters 4 and 5 Now Available!
We’re pleased to announce that Chapters 4 and 5 are available for early access for Relevant Search! Please read and give us feedback. This is early access for a…
Log Every Document Added To Solr
I often want to intercept the complete Solr updates sent to Solr in a format I can use offline. Clients have complex ingestion systems. I shouldn’t need to have…
Improving on Git Flow: Code Reviews
Something amazing happened today on our Quepid project. We did a code review. Not some formal thing whereby we sat together in a conference room with someone presenting hundreds…
Why Cassandra?
On Tuesday, I had the opportunity of attending Cassandra Day in DC, a one-day conference put on by Datastax. As an application developer and designer, my role is building…
BioSolr — Stop Reinventing The Wheel in Life Science Search
I was privileged to be hosted in Cambridge UK by our buddies at Flax two weeks ago. During my time over in the UK, I got a chance to…
Joe Lawson Joins OpenSource Connections
Joining OpenSource Connections Hello world! My name is Joseph (Joe) Lawson and I’m the newest team member to OpenSource Connections (OSC). If you’re unfamiliar, people don’t join OSC just…
Hawt.io makes Camel hotter
Playing with Hawt Watch the startup logs for a pop culture reference 😉 Background We’ve been using Apache Camel on a number of projects over the past two years,…
Deep Dive into Elasticsearch Cross Field Search
Crossing streams — problem. Crossing fields? No problem! Elasticsearch’s cross field queries are a great feature. They let you blend multiple fields scores together on a search-term by…