Why FoundationDB Might Be All Its Cracked Up To Be
When I first heard about FoundationDB, I couldnt imagine how it could be anything but vaporware. Seemed like Unicorns crapping happy rainbows to solve all your problems. As Im…
Lucene 4 Finite State Automata in 10 minutes (Intro & Tutorial)
\n \n Sample Automaton\n \n \n\n This article is intended to help you bootstrap your ability to work with Finite State Automata (note automata == plural of automaton). Automata…
Indexing StackOverflow in Solr
One thing I really like about Solr is that its super easy to get started. You just download solr, fire it up, and then after following the 10 minute…
Building Suggest-As-You-Type with Carrot2 Clustering
The first interaction that a customer has with your e-commerce web site is with the search box itself. So it is of utmost importance to make the user experience…
Using Solr Join to find the best time to ask questions on StackOverflow
So lets say that you have an important tech question that simply must be answered: “What’s the difference between JavaScript and Java?” Normally you would post it on StackOverflow…
Convenient Solr Feature: Facet over the same field multiple times with different filters
Did you know that you can facet over the same field more than once? Did you know that you can rename the facet field? Did you know that you…
OpenSource Connections is proud to host beSwarm 4
Opensource Connections is proud to host beSwarm What beSwarm is a gathering of tech enthusiasts from all over central Virginia to discuss, share, and learn about anything that interests…
The Hello World of MapReduce Scores a Goal for Science!
Just about the first thing youre going to do when you learn MapReduce is do the word frequency job. That just reads in a bunch of text and reports…
2-Day Solr Training Coming to Charlottesville in March!
Course Overview OpenSource Connections, in partnership with LucidWorks, is pleased to present Solr Unleashed, a 2-day Solr training course right here in Charlottesville. If youre new to Solr, then…
Charlottesvilles Big Data Meetup – What is a Data Scientist?
Scott and I ventured out of the office yesterday evening to check out a new group starting up– Charlottesvilles Big Data Group. The most exciting thing about the group…
Adventures in Puppetry!
My first attempt at using Puppet to automate a server build was not as easy as Id hoped. The goal seemed simple enough: Build a RedHat server running Solr…
Escaping Solr Query Characters in Python
I’ve been working in some Python Solr client code. One area where bugs have cropped up is in query terms that need to be escaped before passing to Solr….