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Archive for September, 2010

Lessons Learned: Moving from Verity to Solr (Part 6)

Previously, in Part 5 of this series, I blogged about some difficulties in working with Solr. I am following up with some more lessons learned. If you note Part 4 in this series, you’ll see that I speak about upgrading to Solr 1.4.1. Well, for me, that wasn’t enough. Allow me to explain in a [...]

Lessons Learned: Moving from Verity to Solr (Part 5)

Previously, in Part 4 of this series, I blogged about some difficulties in working with Solr. I am following up with some more lessons learned. In Part 3 of this series, I spoke about my frustration with wild cards. Solr, out of the box, will support wild cards like ? or * anywhere in the [...]

Lessons Learned: Moving from Verity to Solr (Part 4)

Previously, in Part 3 of this series, I blogged about some difficulties in working with Solr. I am following up with some more lessons learned. This is a big one. Upgrading to the latest Solr. The Solr that comes with Adobe ColdFusion 9.0.1 is a slightly customized (from what I can tell) version of a [...]

WTH?! Bloglines to Shutdown!

Ugh. Bloglines, which I use for reading 1000+ blogs, is shutting down in 3 weeks. They say you can export the OPML file, but what about all my saved/marked content? This sucks.

Lessons Learned: Moving from Verity to Solr (Part 3)

Previously, in Part 2 of this series, I blogged about some difficulties in working with Solr. I am following up with some more lessons learned. This one deals with wildcards. If you look on page 359 of the 2nd WACK book, it states: “A search for ?ar?et would find both Carpet and Target, but not [...]

Lessons Learned: Moving from Verity to Solr (Part 2)

Previously, in Part 1 of this series, I blogged about some difficulties in working with Solr. I am following up with some more lessons learned. In order to index with more than one category, Adobe suggested that instead of category=”column1,column2″, which places the literal value “column1,column2″ in the category instead of getting the respective values, [...]

Lessons Learned: Moving from Verity to Solr (Part 1)

More than anything, these series of posts are some notes and tidbits I’ve learned as we move our large Verity collection over to Solr. These notes apply to CF 9.0.1. Rule #1 – Adobe Docs suck. Be creative in your searches. I found answers for question in the following places: Blogs: including but not limited [...]

Eclipse Annoyance: "Refresh Content"

Does anyone else have this annoyance? Whenever I open a large file in CFBuilder (built on Eclipse), I see a little notice at the bottom saying “Refresh Content” and it always tends to freeze my IDE. It can occur several times per minute. I’ve search and found no solution.

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