Jason Hull Featured Discussing Solr and OpenSource Connections on Veterans...
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...
View ArticleLessons 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 were very positive about the state of U.S....
View ArticleMulti-Level Security in Solr
On June 15, I presented at the Basis Technologies Lucene and Solr in the Government conference on the topic of multi-level security (MLS) in Solr using ManifoldCF. This post covers the notes from my...
View ArticleSearch Engine Testing and Apache Lucene Eurocon Oh My!
Eric Pugh got notified today that he’s been accepted to speak on “Better Search Engine Testing” at the 2011 Apache Lucene Eurocon. So, what, you may ask, does search engine testing entail? Great search...
View ArticleOpenSource Connections Adds Site Search Analytics Service
At OpenSource Connections, we strongly believe that search is not simply a matter of installing a search engine, putting in a search box, and forgetting about it. Yet, that’s what we find most site...
View ArticleIndexing Chinese in Solr
Recently, we had a project where we helped a client index a corpus of Chinese language documents in Solr. We have asked Dan Funk, a committer to Project Blacklight to provide a guest blog post for us...
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Why use a Javascript interface for Solr?
Richer presentation. Deeper data in search results. Search UIs are getting richer and more interesting by the day. Google page snapshots, animated disclosures of richer data on mouse over, and...
View ArticlePatent Troll Shows Need To Improve Search To Disprove
As the “father of the Internet,” Tim Berners-Lee, got onto a plane to head to the burgeoning tech center of Tyler, Texas (all sarcasm intended), he must have wondered how he found himself in this...
View ArticleIdentifying Anomalous Driving Patterns Using Hadoop and Cassandra
Overview In order to identify unusual behaviors of tracked targets in a large and ever-expanding data set of raw geospatial track data, we built a analytics application based on Cassandra, Hadoop, and...
View ArticleTalking Solr in Las Vegas, February 22, 2012 7:00 PM
Do you like Solr? Live in Las Vegas? Are you going to be in Vegas on Wednesday, February 22, 2012? Like free dinner? If this sounds like you, then join Eric Pugh and John Berryman at Mundo, 495 S....
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CodeFloat 2012 “by the numbers”
For the past year I’ve been talking with Christopher Ball and Erik Hatcher about how frustrating it is to have to carve time out of our regular day jobs to work on Solr and Lucene. Thanks to their...
View ArticleEscaping Solr Query Characters in Python
I’ve been working in some Python Solr client code. One area where bugs have cropped up is in query terms that need to be escaped before passing to Solr. For example, how do you send Solr an argument...
View ArticleHow to Debug Solr With Eclipse
Recently I was puzzled by some behavior Solr was showing me. I scratched my head and called over a colleague. We couldn’t quite figure out what was going on. Well Solr is open source so… next stop –...
View ArticleCreating a Solr HTML element with AngularJS!
Of late we’ve been playing around with EmberJS for putting together slick client-side apps. But one thing that bothers me is how heavy-weight it feels. Another thing that concerns me is that AngularJS...
View ArticleUsing SolrJ with BASIC authentication and SSL wrapped Solr
Do you have BASIC authentication turned on for Solr? Are you using a self signed SSL Certificate? Do you want to index to this server using SolrJ? I’ve taken a couple of tries to get all the magic...
View ArticleDrupal Devs — Don’t Undervalue Relevant Site Search
Drupal developers: raise your hand if you’ve ever been in this situation. You’re ready to deploy your app. You’ve developed a beautiful site, leveraging Drupal to its max. You’ve plugged in site search...
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