Tonight I met someone from a (largish) local company and learned they’re migrating their search functionality to SOLR.  This is the second largish company in the area I know that’s migrating to SOLR.  I’m not naming names only because I’m not sure they’d want me to do so.  Suffice it to say these are names [...]

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Former colleague Donovan Jimenez had his PHP/SOLR client plugged as the “most robust” PHP client for SOLR at IBM’s developerworks site.  Not much else to plug here, but if you’re interested in doing SOLR with PHP, his client does the job admirably.  I’m using it in my matchorclash.com site right now too.  Grab Donovan’s client [...]

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I had a few ideas from last week that I wanted to throw out here for posterity.
Grahame was talking about Haskell, and I asked if he was going to wait for JHaskell - or Jaskell - before adopting it. We then quickly realized Raskell (a ruby version) and Paskell (php/perl/python version) would be good [...]

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Wow - the connection to my server from the convention center just died yesterday.  I could traceroute all the way to something internal to the data center, but it just stopped.  I need to determine if some iptables crap triggered to block me out (why would that have happened?)
So, yesterday afternoon was great.  I had [...]

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So, I hit a couple more sessions last night.  The ‘high performance web pages’ talk from Steve @ Yahoo wasn’t open - SRO apparently.  Instead, I caught the end of “Profiling PHP apps” (Reilly).  I missed the beginning, but was hoping to get a bit of something out of it.  I did - a reference [...]

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I ended up running over just a bit in my presentation, and didn’t quite get through all my slides (missed the last 3).  For anyone that wanted to see how it ends, download the files from  http://www.webdevradio.com/solr_oscon.tgz.  The only thing I didn’t demonstrate in detail was the PHP/SOLR search code, which is running at http://www.pfblogs.com/v2/ [...]

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Going through SOLR putting together my presentation, I’ve restarted thinking of my hosted SOLR service I was considering some time ago.  I was thinking last night that a hosted blog search - wordpress, to start with - would be a great service, and pretty easy to set up.  Wordpress “search”  functionality is something that seems [...]

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