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Exploring Lucene’s Indexing Code: Part 2

Previous: Exploring Lucene's Indexing Code: Part 1 A trace of addDocument is pretty intense, so we are going to have...
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Lucene in Action, 2nd edition, available!

Lucene in Action, 2nd edition is now available through the Manning Early Access Program. We've arranged for an exclusive discount,...
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Lucene 2.4.1 Released

Lucene 2.4.1 has been released. Lucene 2.4.1 is a bug fix release and Lucene 2.9 will follow next.
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Exploring Lucene’s Indexing Code: Part 1

Next: Exploring Lucene's Indexing Code: Part 2 While I have mucked around quite a bit in the search side code...
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UK Government Backs Open Source

Is it just me, or does a different Government body around the world push towards open source like every other...
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Exploring Query Parsers

There are a surprising number of query parser options in the Lucene/Solr world – not something I realized very quickly...
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acts_as_solr with Rich Document Indexing

A hearty thanks to the Central Virginia Ruby Enthusiasts' Group, who invited me to speak on Solr+Ruby giving me a...
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Highlighting Highlighter Thoughts

I have some Highlighter work that I keep meaning to finish up (basic support for highlighting ConstantScoreQuerys), and so I...
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Open Source and the Economic Stimulus

A number of my peers in the open source community have put together an interesting letter to President Obama on...
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Sorting, Faceting and Schema Design in Solr

I was recently with a client doing a Best Practices assesment when I came across a common source of confusion...
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Investigating OOM and other JVM issues

When working with a large scale Lucene/Solr installation, users sometimes run into memory issues or garbage collection performance problems. Its...
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Open Source Myths: Open Source Search Needs More Assistance

Does open source Lucene/Solr require more outside assistance than comparable commercial products? No. (I’m tempted to stop there, but that’s...
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