February 2012
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“AutoComplete or AutoSuggest has in recent years become a “must-have”...”
– Super flexible AutoComplete with Solr
July 2011
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20 of the World's Most Beautiful Libraries →
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“A collection of all the best bookshelf photos for people that *heart*...”
– Bookshelf Porn
May 2010
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Getting Results: Local CEO tosses the time clock →
Jeff Gunther Rocks!
April 2010
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March 2010
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February 2010
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CrossFitting →
A New Years resolution to kick my butt back into hard core shape, I joined CrossFit Charlottesville. During our intro “on ramp” program we were photographed, and today I made the site, rowing.
November 2009
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Solr 1.4 released!
Official announcement of the release of Solr 1.4:
Apache Solr 1.4 has been released and is now available for public download! http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/
Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering,...
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Blacklight 2.4 released
From the Blacklight team -
Release 2.4 of Project Blacklight is now available in our new Git flavor!
You can find the new improved flavor of Blacklight at http://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight/tree/v2.4.0
In addition to our move to Git, we have listened to community feedback and have changed the installation process. Instructions for installation are at...
October 2009
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Easy Solr types for library data » Robot Librarian →
A great blog about configuring some standard types of data in the library domain.
I wonder if the new trie fields would be useful with the numerics, though that would require preprocessing on the client currently. Depends on how range queries are used.
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“Q: Will this work with the Mac?
A: Unfortunately, it will not. Since nearly...”
– wtf? from a big name company’s FAQ on one of their (admittedly older) wireless mouse products that I happen to own. Though it works on a Mac, or at least it did. That is why I was looking at the FAQ, to refresh my memory on how to sync it up.
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Erik Hatcher on Apache Lucene and Solr Search... →
interviewed regarding upcoming ApacheCon
September 2009
5 posts
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After Losing Users in Catalogs, Libraries Find... →
Blacklight featured
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Watch
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10 Unusual Playgrounds From Around the World →
I’ve been to one of these playgrounds, Yerba Buena. The others have been added to the TODO list.
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Scandinavia Apache Lucene/Solr September Meetup
Click here to check out The Scandinavia Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup!
I’m going to fill my slot with ramblings about various projects I’ve worked on over the past couple of years, including Solr, Flare, Blacklight, The Motley Fool, etc. The Findwise folks will present “Migrating from commercial search engines to Solr”,Tobias Larsson Hult and Eskil Andreen, Findwise SE
August 2009
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Lucid Imagination Selected as "2009 Trend-Setter"... →
Sweet!!!
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AT&T plans update to area cell service |... →
It’s here, it’s here!!! I thought the day would never come where I had more than 1 bar (at best) at my house. This morning the endearing “3G” logo appeared with several bars. Just in time to entice the Mac/iPhone fanatics here in town to invest in a new Apple tablet soon ;) Kindle/ebook reader killer?
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WatchDan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com
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“Lucid Imagination made extra efforts to make LucidWorks for Lucene easy to...”
– Lucid Imagination » Lucid Gaze for Lucene
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SFBay Apache Lucene/Solr September Meetup - SFBay... →
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EdUI Conference – Solr Flair: Search User... →
I will be presenting “Solr Flair: Search User Interfaces Powered by Apache Solr” at the upcoming EdUI 2009 Conference. I’m honored to be finally speaking at the same conference as my great friend and UI mentor, Molly Holzschlag. I’ve got my work cut out for me to come up with a presentation worthy for a “UI” conference with folks of this caliber headlining – I’m even looking forward to the...
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DigTheDirt →
A friend of mine is working on this site. Dig it!
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Grant's Solr Webinar
Grant Ingersoll is presenting a webinar on August 13th, 2009 ~ 11:00 AM PDT / 2:00 PM EDT
You can sign up @ http://www2.eventsvc.com/lucidimagination/081309?trk=WR-AUG2009-AP
He will present:
Getting started with LucidWorks for Solr
Getting better, faster results using Solr’s findability and relevance improvement tools
Deploying Solr in production, including monitoring performance and...
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Fatal Fire at Boy Scout Camp →
:( We were just at this camp, in this trading post, with the victim. Very very sad.
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Drunk People Yoga Positions →
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Making A Joke Out Of Justice →
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http://cvillain.com/ →
RIP - a C’ville legacy.
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Hanzi Smatter 一知半解 →
words matter, hanzi too.
July 2009
5 posts
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Blacklight 2.3
installation instructions are now maintained in rdoc, and transformed to html with hanna. This makes our docs much more attractive and easy to search than they were previously. You can see the outcome at http://blacklight.rubyforge.org, where we publish our auto-generated rdocs.
The demo app now uses solrmarc for indexing marc records. The previous ruby-based marc indexer is still there, but the...
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Open-source Lucene threatens Microsoft and Google... →
What’s taken everyone so long to figure this out?! ;)
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NYC Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup - Meetup.com →
Our third sponsored meetup! Join us if you’re in the neighborhood.
June 2009
4 posts
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Search User Interfaces →
A must-read!
Cub Scouts Enjoy Week-Long Camp at Chris Greene... →
And even bows and arrows! (I’m the Range Master of the archery ranges)
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Lucid Imagination Secures Strategic Investment... →
May 2009
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How they use IRC at Last.fm →
We’re starting to experiment with using IRC more as a Lucid virtual “water cooler”. This article hit the spot!
SourceForge Community Choice Awards
You guessed it, I nominated Solr!
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SFBay Lucene/Solr June Meetup - SFBay Apache... →
We’re sponsoring another meetup. The east coast one earlier this week was amazing!
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beCamp 2009 Schedule →
I’m having a great time at beCamp 2009! Just finished giving a talk on Solr. Now rapping jQuery and then CSS Ninja’ing.
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NOVA Lucene / Solr Meetup (Reston, VA) -... →
Lucene/Solr Meetup / May 20th, Reston VA, 6-8:30 pm http://www.meetup.com/NOVA-Lucene-Solr-Meetup/ Join us for an evening of presentations and discussion on Lucene/Solr, the Apache Open Source Search Engine/Platform, featuring: Erik Hatcher, Lucid Imagination, Apache Lucene/Solr PMC: Solr power your data: How to get up an running in 20 minutes or less Ryan McKinley: Apache Lucene/Solr PMC:...