Lessons from DI2E: Intelligence is About Search, Not Gathering
I just came back from the 2011 DI2E conference in Dallas, Texas and certainly left with a lot of impressions. I want to state up front that my impressions…
Scott Stults Discusses Value of Solr Certification Exam
OSCs Scott Stults and Michael Herndon are currently at Lucene Revolution and Scott was interviewed by CMSWire about the value of getting a Solr certification. You can watch his…
Working on Apaches Lucene.Net
I was requested to compose a blog post about how what Ive been working within the Lucene.Net project as a committer. Who in there right mind would ask me…
Jason Hull Featured Discussing Solr and OpenSource Connections on Veterans Affairs Blog
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…
Should I Deploy Solr 4.0?
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?”…
Michael Herndon Named Lucene.NET Committer
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…
Warning: Strong Opinions Can Cause A Backdraft.
In response to: ceo friday why we dont hire net programmers I’m sure there are a slew of witty responses in this rebuttal to a CEO writing this kind…
Scott Stults to Speak on Solr Security at the Solr and Text Analytics Conference
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…
Top Three Drivers of Solr Adoption
Weve been talking to our customers to understand why they are adopting Solr. Is it because its a great product from the Apache Software Foundation? Is it because Lucene…
Search Is Not Just an IT Problem
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…
Agile2010: From Change to Planning to just being truly Present
A couple weeks ago I went to the Agile2010 conference in Orlando, and it was a really great experience. I really enjoyed giving my talk on range estimation in…
Software Estimation: Using Range Estimates in Scrum
Recently I wrote a blog post on why software developers are typically so bad at estimation. I also gave a preview of the presentation that I am giving today…