Storify is "a company building tools to help journalists, bloggers and experts curate the real-time Web." As you can imagine, search functionality...
1 replies - 3938 views - 03/31/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
An issue related to index locks in Solr during startups was patched for the 3.6 branch and 4.x trunk. In current versions of Apache Solr, when you didn't use...
0 replies - 4779 views - 03/28/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
One thing that I've wanted to implement for a while now is automatic
vhosts on my dev box. The idea is that I want to drop a folder into a
directory and...
0 replies - 6252 views - 03/26/12 by Rob Allen in Articles
Stamping the version number and the build time of an application in a properties file so that it could be displayed by an application at runtime seemed like it...
0 replies - 9221 views - 03/23/12 by Rob Terpilowski in Articles
Solr 3.6 will have an interesting new feature for currency handling called solr.CurrencyField. Why do we need this when you can just use float for currency...
0 replies - 3602 views - 03/20/12 by Rafał Kuć in Articles
Hadoop is an open source project for processing large datasets in parallel with the use of low level commodity machines.Hadoop
is build on two main parts. An...
0 replies - 34620 views - 03/18/12 by Carlo Scarioni in Articles
Blur is a new Apache 2.0 licensed software project that provides a
search capability built on top of Hadoop and Lucene. Elastic Search and
Solr already...
0 replies - 6015 views - 03/16/12 by Scott Leberknight in Articles
Context-less, multi-term autocomplete is difficult.
Given the term "di", we can look at our index and rank terms starting
with "di" by...
0 replies - 5306 views - 03/16/12 by Kelvin Tan in Articles
In the past, Lucene recorded only the bare minimal aggregate index
statistics necessary to support its
hard-wired classic
vector space scoring...
0 replies - 6895 views - 03/15/12 by Michael Mccandless in Articles
Solr 3.5 comes with a nice autocomplete/typeahead component that is based on the SolrSpellCheckComponent.
You provide it a query and a field, and the...
0 replies - 5934 views - 03/07/12 by Kelvin Tan in Articles
Many users don't appreciate the transactional semantics of Lucene's
APIs and how this can be useful in search applications. For starters, Lucene...
1 replies - 5573 views - 03/02/12 by Michael Mccandless in Articles
Here’s a brief step by step guide to running more than one instance of Tomcat on a single machine.
Step 1: Install the Tomcat files
Download...
2 replies - 13247 views - 02/29/12 by Kief Morris in Articles
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0 replies - 16697 views - 02/28/12 by Chris Smith in Articles
Or “How to never re-use cached filter query results even though you meant to”:
Filter queries (“fq” clauses) are a means to restrict the number of...
0 replies - 6981 views - 02/27/12 by Erick Erickson in Articles
I am trying to put together a framework for search quality evaluation for a specialist information provider.
At the moment quality is measured by counting the...
1 replies - 2955 views - 02/26/12 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles
