Thoughts on Lucene, Solr, crawling and vertical search 

If you ever need to split a disc image which has been burned as a single wav/flac/ape file with a corresponding cue file, this will help you out.

Split2flac does all the tedium of splitting, renaming (according to a renaming …

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This post describes a method of augmenting the lucene-spatial contrib package to support multi-point searches. It is quite similar to the method described http://www.supermind.org/blog/548/multiple-latitudelongitude-pairs-for-a-single-solrlucene-doc with some minor modifications.

The problem is as follows:

A company (mapped as a Lucene

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Jetty 6/7 contain a HttpClient class that make it uber-easy to issue non-blocking HTTP requests in Java. Here is a code snippet to get you started.

Initialize the HttpClient object.

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Context-less multi-term autocomplete is difficult.

Given the term "di", we can look at our index and rank terms starting with "di" by frequency and return the n most frequent terms. Solr's TSTLookup and FSTLookup do this very well. …

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Solr 3.5 comes with a nice autocomplete/typeahead component that is based on the SolrSpellCheckComponent.

You provide it a query and a field, and the Suggester returns a list of suggestions based on the query. For example:

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Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server published by Packt Publishing is the only Solr book available at the moment.

It's a fairly comprehensive book, and discusses many new Solr 3 features. Considering the breakneck pace of Solr development and …

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Just received my review copy of the only Apache Solr book on the market..

http://www.packtpub.com/apache-solr-3-enterprise-search-server/book

My book review to follow shortly..

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to rasterize the …

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The .dmg archive is now mounted at /mnt. You …

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At the moment (October 2011), there's no simple way to download all videos from a playlist from KhanAcademy.org.

This simple PHP crawler script changes that.

What it does is downloads the videos (from archive.org) …

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