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A searching question...How can you efficiently index content without polluting or tightly coupling your business logic to a search engine API?
Crawling is one option, but it isn't necessarily that efficient nor do you have fine grained control over the fields that are stored in the search index documents. For one customer project we built an elegant asynchronous event driven indexing mechanism.
- From the trenches - Troubleshooting Solr implementations
We were recently assisting a leading UK media publisher with a search relevancy issue. The powerful Apache Solr search service was utilised by their e-commerce package but their implementation suffered from a few common problems. On top of this were some more challenges caused by the umbrella package and, in particular, how it abstracted Solr
Ixxus Web FrameworkThe Ixxus Web Framework provides a robust starting point for creating rich, dynamic websites. The framework is designed using an easy to maintain MVC style architecture that is flexible enough to integrate many different technologies depending on the required solution
- Relevancy Driven Development with Solr
The relevancy of search engine results is very subjective so therefore testing the relevancy of queries is also subjective.One technique that exists in the information retrieval field is the use of judgement lists; an alternative approach discussed here is to follow the Behaviour Driven Development methodology employing user story acceptance criteria – I’ve been calling this Relevancy Driven Development or RDD for short.
The Golden Age of Open SourceI have already seen the change happen in the world of content management. As we came out of the summer of 2009, hard on the tail of a global economic meltdown, something changed in the take up of open source ECM in the blue chip arena of business. Our projects suddenly shifted from strategic, point solutions leveraging the open source model of Alfresco to become main stream, enterprise adoptions of Alfresco as a chosen, strategic enterprise content management platform across global corporations and organisations. Not just on one or two occasions, not just in one or two sectors, but across the board.
