Changing Bits

I just came across this great article about meta-researcher Dr. John Ioannidis. Here's the summary: Much of what medical researchers c...

I finally pulled the pics off my camera from last week's BBQ after Lucene Revolution in Boston, where much fun was had! See them here ....

The Lucene Revolution conference just wrapped up yesterday. It was well attended (~300 or so people). It was great fun to hear about all ...

Inspired by this question on the Lucene user's list, I created a new codec in Lucene called the SimpleText codec. The best ideas come ...

Modern electric meters (the one attached to the outside of your house) emit an IR flash for each watt-hour consumed, through the port on the...

Wikipedia periodically exports all of the content on their site, providing a nice corpus for performance testing. I downloaded their most r...

Sometimes it's really important to get localization right!

A filter in Lucene is a bit set that restricts the search space for any query; you pass it into IndexSearcher's search method. It's...

Hilarious . It's a spoof of Billy Joel's catchy We Didn't Start the Fire . Scary that this was posted more than two and a half...

Those of you with kids have undoubtedly discovered that sometimes they sleep with their eyes half open. The first time it happens it's s...

Hilarious .

Today, to encode the postings (docs, freqs, positions) in the index, Lucene uses a variable byte format where each integer is individually e...