Re: Note on The Book

2013-06-09 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Message- From: Markus Jelsma Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 5:35 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Note on The Book Jack, I'd prefer tons of information instead of a meager 300 page book that leaves a lot of questions. I'm looking forward to a paperback or hardcover book

Re: Note on The Book

2013-06-09 Thread Jack Krupansky
Gospodnetic Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2013 2:12 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Note on The Book It's 2013 and people suffer from ADD. Break it up into a la carte chapter books. Otis -- Solr ElasticSearch Support http://sematext.com/ On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Jack Krupansky j

Re: Note on The Book

2013-05-29 Thread Yago Riveiro
: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 1:36 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org (mailto:solr-user@lucene.apache.org) Subject: RE: Note on The Book I'd definitely prefer the spiral bound as well. E-books are great and your draft version seems very reasonably priced (aka I would definitely get

Re: Note on The Book

2013-05-29 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
@lucene.apache.org) Subject: RE: Note on The Book I'd definitely prefer the spiral bound as well. E-books are great and your draft version seems very reasonably priced (aka I would definitely get it). Really looking forward to this. Is there a separate mailing list / etc. for the book for those

Re: Note on The Book

2013-05-29 Thread Jack Krupansky
actually do for them. The only request we won't be open to is to do it all in only 300 pages. -- Jack Krupansky -Original Message- From: Erick Erickson Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 7:19 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Note on The Book FWIW, picking up on Alexandre's

RE: Note on The Book

2013-05-29 Thread Markus Jelsma
...@basetechnology.com Sent: Wed 29-May-2013 15:10 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Note on The Book Erick, your point is well taken. Although my primary interest/skill is to produce a solid foundation reference (including tons of examples), the real goal is to then build on top

Re: Note on The Book

2013-05-29 Thread Jack Krupansky
Markus, Okay, more pages it is! -- Jack Krupansky -Original Message- From: Markus Jelsma Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 5:35 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Note on The Book Jack, I'd prefer tons of information instead of a meager 300 page book that leaves a lot

Re: Note on The Book

2013-05-28 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
Jack, It is worth considering something like https://leanpub.com/ . That way people can pre-pay for the result and enjoy (however 'draft'-y) results earlier. In terms of reference vs narrative, my strong desire would have been for the narrative part. The problem always seems to be around

RE: Note on The Book

2013-05-28 Thread Swati Swoboda
: Thursday, May 23, 2013 7:15 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Note on The Book To those of you who may have heard about the Lucene/Solr book that I and two others are writing on Lucene and Solr, some bad and good news. The bad news: The book contract with O’Reilly has been canceled

Re: Note on The Book

2013-05-28 Thread Jack Krupansky
- From: Swati Swoboda Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 1:36 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Note on The Book I'd definitely prefer the spiral bound as well. E-books are great and your draft version seems very reasonably priced (aka I would definitely get it). Really looking forward

Re: Note on The Book

2013-05-27 Thread Koji Sekiguchi
Hi Jack, I'd like to ask as a person who contributed a case study article about Automatically acquiring synonym knowledge from Wikipedia to the book. (13/05/24 8:14), Jack Krupansky wrote: To those of you who may have heard about the Lucene/Solr book that I and two others are writing on

Re: Note on The Book

2013-05-27 Thread Jack Krupansky
If you would like to Solr-ize your contribution, that would be great. The focus of the book will be hard-core Solr. -- Jack Krupansky -Original Message- From: Koji Sekiguchi Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 8:07 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Note on The Book Hi Jack

Re: Note on The Book

2013-05-27 Thread Koji Sekiguchi
contribution, that would be great. The focus of the book will be hard-core Solr. -- Jack Krupansky -Original Message- From: Koji Sekiguchi Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 8:07 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Note on The Book Hi Jack, I'd like to ask as a person who contributed a case

Re: Note on The Book

2013-05-26 Thread Erick Erickson
Jack: Kudos for carrying on! Having a contract canceled after putting a lot of work into it must be a bummer... Personally I'm not buying many paper books any more, so the e-book version is preferable for me, so take this with a grain of salt.. but make the paper version spiral bound, _please_.

Re: Note on The Book

2013-05-26 Thread Jack Krupansky
- From: Erick Erickson Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 11:08 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Note on The Book Jack: Kudos for carrying on! Having a contract canceled after putting a lot of work into it must be a bummer... Personally I'm not buying many paper books any more, so the e

Note on The Book

2013-05-23 Thread Jack Krupansky
To those of you who may have heard about the Lucene/Solr book that I and two others are writing on Lucene and Solr, some bad and good news. The bad news: The book contract with O’Reilly has been canceled. The good news: I’m going to proceed with self-publishing (possibly on Lulu or even Amazon)