I gave my first public run through of my SOLR presentation last night to the tripug group last night. Whew! It was pretty darn rough. My first runs through had timed out at only 10-12 minutes. I was really worried about how I’d fill the time. What happened, however, was [...]

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I’ve just opened up MatchOrClash.com, a ‘hot-or-not’-style voting site for fashion pairings.  Right now I’ve only got a small subset of shoes and handbags from Amazon.com, but will look to grow that tomore types of clothing in the near future.   As it stands right now the project is very early stages - functional, but not [...]

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We found what I’d consider to be a ‘bug’ yesterday, which is that SOLR is case-sensitive for wildcard searches by default.  The SolrQueryParser runs setLowercaseExpandedTerms(false); when the default for LowerCaseExpandedTerms is ‘true’ in Lucene itself.  I didn’t get a very convincing answer as to why it was changed - not that the answer wasn’t earnest [...]

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I’ve got a few servers I’m upgrading to PHP5. I’m probably one of the last people to make this upgrade. I’ve worked at a place where PHP5 was used, so I was comfortable with it, but the servers I run for myself and my current workplace were both PHP4.3. Recently, I’ve upgraded [...]

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On the SOLR list there was a point brought up here about “progressive relaxation”.  It’s a technique Oracle are promoting in their search product, but one of the SOLR devs dismisses it as flawed.  The crux of the idea is for a developer to provide variation of queries, perhaps in succession, which represent more ‘open’ [...]

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