Monthly Archives: November 2009

Solr does GEO search

Posted on 2009-11-20 by janhoy

Apache Solr is a very capable enterprise search platform, doing most things you would expect from such a solution. But what about GEO sensitive applications like Yellow-pages, maps search, sort by distance to X etc? The big commercial systems such … Continue reading →

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Test driving Chrome OS

Posted on 2009-11-20 by janhoy

After all the buzz about Chrome OS being open-sourced as “Chromium OS”, I had to give it a ride. I could have compiled the source from scratch, but a quick search gave this page from Gdgt providing a VMWare image … Continue reading →

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Apache Solr 1.4 finally released

Posted on 2009-11-11 by janhoy

Finally, after long delays, Apache Solr version 1.4 is released. The long delay was mainly due to very strict quality standards, which made it necessary to wait until some serious known bugs were dealt with. Also read my previous article … Continue reading →

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