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Local port forwarding

A colleague and I ran into an interesting problem today which we wanted to use local port forwarding to solve. In our environment.rb file we have a Solr...

1 replies - 5415 views - 03/23/11 by Mark Needham in News

Solr Powered ISFDB: Part 1

This is Part 1 in a series of 11 (so far) articles by Chris Hostetter in 2011 on Indexing and Searching the ISFDB.org data using Solr.There are three things...

2 replies - 5220 views - 03/22/11 by Chris Hostetter in News

Lucene Open Source Community Commits to a Future in Search

It has been two years since I commented on an article in Information Week, Open Source, Its Time has Come, Nov. 2008. My main point...

0 replies - 5640 views - 03/21/11 by Lynda Moulton in News

Solr Power FTW

Anyone who knows Apache Solr knows that it can be helpful in organizing and indexing data in a variety of ways, but did you know that Solr can be used as a...

0 replies - 2861 views - 03/21/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Blogs

Going Beyond the Basics With Open Source Search

Useful search technology is more than just an entry bar and a list of results.  These days, companies like LinkedIn, Amazon, and others are showing us just...

0 replies - 9079 views - 03/09/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Uncategorized

Search and UX: Audio Interview

In this inaugral issue of DZone's Solr and Lucene focused podcast series, we get a chance to talk with Stefan Olafsson, a lead developer for the Twigkit...

0 replies - 7087 views - 02/09/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Uncategorized

Tuning Solr in Near Real Time Search environments

Gustavo Fernades, Senior Open Source Consultant at Sourcesense UK, recently did a talk detailing six Solr tuning tips that can help significantly reduce...

0 replies - 11698 views - 02/03/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

How to write a custom Solr FunctionQuery

Solr FunctionQueries allow you to modify the ranking of a search query in Solr by applying functions to the results. There are a list of out-of-box...

0 replies - 9917 views - 02/02/11 by Kelvin Tan in News

Apache Solr: Get Started, Get Excited!

We've all seen them on various websites.  Crappy search utilities.  They are a constant reminder that search is not something you should take lightly...

2 replies - 61044 views - 01/25/11 by Peter ___ in Articles

The Apache Lucene Ecosystem: My View of 2010

After a week off to enjoy time with my family, I thought I would kick off the last week of 2010 with a look back at the year as it relates to...

1 replies - 6585 views - 01/18/11 by Grant Ingersoll in News

Indexing JSON in Solr 3.1

Solr has been able to produce JSON results for a long time, by adding wt=json to any query. A new capability has recently been added to allow indexing in...

0 replies - 10888 views - 01/13/11 by Yonik Seeley in Articles

Realtime Search With Lucene at Twitter

Presented by Michael Busch, Search Engineer, Twitter Abstract: Lucene has for a while already a nice feature that we call "Near-realtime search"...

0 replies - 12203 views - 01/01/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Streaming into Solr: Nearly Real Time Indexing and Search of Log Data

Presented by Jon Gifford, Co-Founder, LogglyAbstract: This talk will describe a streaming Log file search system based on Solr, that indexes data in...

0 replies - 5119 views - 12/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Daily Dose - GWT 2.1.1 - Just in Time for the Holidays

Google has just released an update to the Google Web Toolkit 2.1 released back in October.  The GWT Designer has added new annotations while the Google Plugin...

0 replies - 27058 views - 12/18/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Lucene and Solr: The Merger

If you take a look on the Solr wiki to find out when the next version is going to be released (you'd assume it's version 1.5), you find a message saying that...

1 replies - 12414 views - 08/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles