[Announcement] Forage 0.3, the search server for Node.js

2013-11-19 Thread Fergus McDowall
Hi! As a reader of the Solr mailing list, you might be interested in an experimental search server for node.js, Forage. Forage is built on the levelDB library from Google. Check it out here: http://www.foragejs.net/ As always, feedback, pull requests, comments, praise, criticism and beer are

Re: [Announcement] Norch- a search engine for node.js

2013-07-08 Thread Fergus McDowall
William: Geosearch: coming soon! F On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 6:29 AM, William Bell billnb...@gmail.com wrote: Can it do Geo Spatial searching? (i.e. Find documents within 10 miles of a lat,long?) On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Fergus McDowall fergusmcdow...@gmail.comwrote: Here

Re: [Announcement] Norch- a search engine for node.js

2013-07-06 Thread Fergus McDowall
wrote: Very interesting. What is the upper limit on the number of documents? Thanks! :) On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Fergus McDowall fergusmcdow...@gmail.comwrote: Here is some news that might be of interest to users and implementers of Solr http://blog.comperiosearch.com/blog

Re: [Announcement] Norch- a search engine for node.js

2013-07-06 Thread Fergus McDowall
interesting. What is the upper limit on the number of documents? Thanks! :) On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Fergus McDowall fergusmcdow...@gmail.comwrote: Here is some news that might be of interest to users and implementers of Solr http://blog.comperiosearch.com/blog/2013/07/05

[Announcement] Norch- a search engine for node.js

2013-07-05 Thread Fergus McDowall
Here is some news that might be of interest to users and implementers of Solr http://blog.comperiosearch.com/blog/2013/07/05/norch-a-search-engine-for-node-js/ Norch (http://fergiemcdowall.github.io/norch/) is a search engine written for Node.js. Norch uses the Node search-index module which is

Re: Solr faceted search UI

2013-05-28 Thread Fergus McDowall
Hi Richa Solrstrap is probably the best way to go if you just want to get up a PoC as fast as possible. Solrstrap requires no installation of middleware, you just add in the address of your solr server and open the file in your browser. Regards Fergus On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:23 PM, richa

Re: Solr faceted search UI

2013-05-28 Thread Fergus McDowall
You also get some smooth UI stuff for free F On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Fergus McDowall fergusmcdow...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Richa Solrstrap is probably the best way to go if you just want to get up a PoC as fast as possible. Solrstrap requires no installation of middleware, you just

Solrstrap

2013-04-10 Thread Fergus McDowall
Greetings Solrians This is just a reminder that Solrstrap is a thing, and that it might help you out with your Solr project. http://fergiemcdowall.github.io/solrstrap/ Solrstap is wondering which new features it needs. Solrstrap would like to hear your suggestions. Feel free to post here or

Re: Introducing Solrstrap: A blazing fast tool for querying Solr in a Googleish fashion

2013-03-01 Thread Fergus McDowall
Training - www.solrtraining.com 17. feb. 2013 kl. 17:13 skrev Fergus McDowall fergusmcdow...@gmail.com: Jack That sounds entirely reasonable- yes, it probably would make sense. Fergus On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Jack Park jackp...@topicquests.org wrote: Hi Fergus

Introducing Solrstrap: A blazing fast tool for querying Solr in a Googleish fashion

2013-02-17 Thread Fergus McDowall
Solrstrap is a very basic Query-Result interface for Solr. Solrstrap is intended to be a starting point for those building web interfaces that talk to Solr, or a very lightweight admin tool for querying Solr in a Googleish fashion. Cool things about Solrstrap: * Requires only local

Re: Introducing Solrstrap: A blazing fast tool for querying Solr in a Googleish fashion

2013-02-17 Thread Fergus McDowall
somewhere?) Here's the current hit template: script id=hit-template type=text/x-handlebars-template div class=entry b{{title}}/bbr {{text}} /div /script And finally... GPL?! ewww, why?! (-1) :) Well played, Fergus! Erik On Feb 17, 2013, at 05:35 , Fergus

Re: Introducing Solrstrap: A blazing fast tool for querying Solr in a Googleish fashion

2013-02-17 Thread Fergus McDowall
that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD book) On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Fergus McDowall fergusmcdow...@gmail.comwrote: Solrstrap is a very basic Query-Result interface for Solr. Solrstrap is intended to be a starting

Re: Introducing Solrstrap: A blazing fast tool for querying Solr in a Googleish fashion

2013-02-17 Thread Fergus McDowall
? Thanks Jack On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Fergus McDowall fergusmcdow...@gmail.com wrote: Erik Thanks for the great feedback. It fills me with joy to know that another human being has chosen to use Solrstrap 1) I have added a couple more CONST variables to the code to allow

Re: Dedup component

2012-12-16 Thread Fergus McDowall
unsubscribe On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Jorge Luis Betancourt Gonzalez jlbetanco...@uci.cu wrote: Hi all: I'm trying to build a query suggestion system using solr (also used to index all the data in the app). I've a separated core dedicated only for this purpose (along with some

What is the most basic schema.xml you can have for indexing a simple database?

2012-01-25 Thread Fergus McDowall
Is it do-able/sensible to build a schema.xml from the ground up? Say that you are feeding the results of a database query into solr containing the fields id(int), title(varchar), description(varchar), pub_date(date) and tags(varchar) What would be the simplest schema.xml that could support this

Re: What is the most basic schema.xml you can have for indexing a simple database?

2012-01-25 Thread Fergus McDowall
for setting up Solr in front of database with minimal manipulation of DB data, you can check it here http://www.params.me/2011/03/configure-apache-solr-14-with-mysql.html. I am using this setup in of my applications in production. -param On 1/25/12 11:10 AM, Fergus McDowall fergusmcdow

Re: Faceting on distance in Solr: how do you generate links that search withing a given range of distance?

2011-06-02 Thread Fergus McDowall
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Chris Hostetter hossman_luc...@fucit.org wrote: : It is fairly simple to generate facets for ranges or 'buckets' of : distance in Solr: : http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SpatialSearch#How_to_facet_by_distance. : What isnt described is how to generate the links

Faceting on distance in Solr: how do you generate links that search withing a given range of distance?

2011-05-17 Thread Fergus McDowall
It is fairly simple to generate facets for ranges or 'buckets' of distance in Solr: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SpatialSearch#How_to_facet_by_distance. What isnt described is how to generate the links for these facets If this is the query to return everything within 10km : q=:fq={!geofilt