I’ll be in Redwood City for a MeetUp on January 17, 2013 talking briefly about something cool I learned about reading solr-user@lucene last month.
Our featured speaker will be Troy Thomas from Synopsys talking about how they use Solr 4 in their SolvNet knowledge base system.
Details and Registration…
ApacheCon EU wrapped up earlier today, ending a great week full of good Lucene/Solr content. I’d like to thank everyone who came and made it a great event and in particular I’d like to thank everyone who submitted questions for “Stump The Chump”. Video will be posted ASAP (watch this space) but in the mean time I’m pleased to announce the winners:…
Got a tough problem with your Solr or Lucene application? Facing challenges that you’d like some advice on? Looking for better approaches to an Solr issue you already solved? Want to win a prizes?
Email a description of your problem to stump@lucene-eurocon.org and see if you can Stump The Chump (that would be me). Prizes will be awarded at the discretion of our panel, based on their combined (subjective) opinions about which questions they …
Two weeks from today Stump The Chump will arrive in Sinsheim, Germany for Lucene Eurocon @ ApacheCon EU. Today I’m happy to announce the panel of judges:…
I’m excited to announce that Stump The Chump is coming to Sinsheim, Germany for Lucene Eurocon @ ApacheCon EU.…
Today, the Apache Software Foundation officially announced the release of Apache Solr 4.0.0 and Apache Lucene 4.0.0. An annotated version of the “Release Highlights” can be found below.
These 4.0.0 releases are over 2 years in the making, and represent the first truly “Revolutionary Release” from the Lucene project, compared to most of the “Evolutionary” X.0 releases in the past. To mark the occasion, I thought it would be …
Continue reading →Lucene & Solr 4.0-ALPHA were released on July 3, 2012. This is a huge milestone for the project, and the culmination of an idea that was spawned 2 years ago with the creation of the 4x branch. I’ve included the highlights from the release announcements below, but that’s not really the point of this post. What I’d really like to talk about today is why this release is called an “ALPHA”, and what it means …
Continue reading →For those of you not following the Lucene Revolution Blog I’ve posted some updates there about Stump The Chump over the last couple of weeks:
It’s not to late to submit your interesting Solr problem to try and stump me — even if you can’t make it …
Continue reading →The first time I ever presented at an “International Tech Conference” was ApacheCon 2006 in Austin TX. Even though there were probably only ~200 people in the world who knew what Solr was at that point, and only ~20 people in the room that day, it was a very big deal for me. It was the first of many presentations I have given over the years where I practiced, and honed, and rehearsed, for many …
Continue reading →Last week, the venerable Andy Lester posted his “14 Ways to Contribute to Open Source without Being a Programming Genius or a Rock Star“. It’s a great list, and I highly encourage anyone with an interest in Open Source to read it — but I thought It might be particularly helpful for the readers of this blog to mention how each of these points apply to Solr.