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On the Vufind project, I've been migrating the Solrmarc codebase to use Solr 1.3. It's got a lot of nifty changes (the multi-core and DataImportHandler are really nice additions), including moving to Lucene 2.4 for the actual indexing. On the down...

I've been knocked out by a really bad cold the last couple of weeks and I'm just starting to get things back to normal. I did want to send a quick post on the status of the SolColdfusion project. After seeing Ray's Seeker project, it reminded me that...

If you've ever worked on a project that involved Coldfusion's bundled version of Verity, you've no doubt run into the issue of trying to confine your fields into the structure that Verity imposes, and those custom fields are really precious in these...

To get up and running with Solr, you'll need some type of Servlet container. Typically when folks start talking about servlet containers, they're talking about Tomcat or Jetty. In fact, Solr comes with Jetty 6.1.3 (they haven't upgraded to 6.1.5 yet...

As I hinted at yesterday, I was close to having some code in the pipeline to abstract using Solr. I've finished the initial code with the following built in. Here's a brief setup guide to start playing with the code. First, you're going to need to...

I've spent the last few months working on some projects that didn't really have anything to do with ColdFusion (lots of Java and PHP). One of the projects I've been working with (Vufind.org) uses Solr as it's indexing/search engine. That's starting to...