
The de facto Lucene and Solr conference is underway today in Boston, Massachusetts. I believe it's the third annual US version of the conference. A...
0 replies - 4549 views - 05/09/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

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:
The panel...
0 replies - 2324 views - 05/08/12 by Chris Hostetter in Articles

Lucene's TokenStream
class produces the sequence of tokens to be indexed for a
document's fields. The API is an iterator: you call
incrementToken to...
1 replies - 6626 views - 05/01/12 by Michael Mccandless in Articles

I'm happy to announce that two Lucene Google Summer of Code projects were accepted for this summer!
The first project (LUCENE-3312), proposed by Nikola...
0 replies - 3402 views - 04/29/12 by Michael Mccandless in Articles

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...
0 replies - 2582 views - 04/27/12 by Chris Hostetter in Articles

Introduction
I've recently been working with the open source search engine Lucene.
I'm no expert, but since I pored through some rather sparse...
0 replies - 3590 views - 04/25/12 by Chad Davis in Articles

Blur, which is based on Apache Lucene, is a search engine capable of
searching billions of records quickly. The underlying data structures
and algorithms...
0 replies - 4527 views - 04/25/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

As I mentioned in a post a few days ago I’ve been graphing
connections between ThoughtWorks people using neo4j and wanted to build
auto complete...
0 replies - 4034 views - 04/24/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

We know streamlined search utility building is a major need in the tech industry right now. Amazon's recent Cloud Search announcement is evidence of that. ...
0 replies - 3714 views - 04/21/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

I’ve been playing around with neo4j using the neography gem to create a graph of all the people in ThoughtWorks and the connections between them based on...
0 replies - 6424 views - 04/20/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

This post describes a method of augmenting the lucene-spatial contrib
package to support multi-point searches. It is quite similar to the
method described...
0 replies - 4229 views - 04/17/12 by Kelvin Tan in Articles

Apache Lucene and Solr PMC announced another version of Apache Lucene library and Apache Solr search server numbred 3.6. When comparing to the 3.5 there were...
0 replies - 5729 views - 04/16/12 by Rafał Kuć in Articles

Lucene / Solr 3.6 has been released and is available for download.
As release manager, here’s my take on the new features:
Language analysis:
Newly added...
0 replies - 5314 views - 04/13/12 by Robert Muir in Articles

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...
0 replies - 4216 views - 04/02/12 by Chris Hostetter in Articles

I spent some time working on full text search for Neo4j. The basic goals were as follows
Control the pointers of the indexFull Text SearchAll operations are...
0 replies - 5678 views - 03/23/12 by Romiko Derbynew in Articles