Join us at 6:30pm on Thursday January 29, 2009 at Raincity Studios for the Vancouver League of Drupalers January meeting. This month's we have two presentations, integrating Apachesolr Search with Drupal and an implementation case study of a local political website.
Date: Thursday January 29, 6:30pm
Location: Raincity Studios, 1 Alexander Street, Suite 400 in Gastown. [Map]
Cost: There is no charge and all are welcome
For those who don't need to leave right away there's typically a more social discussion at a local pub afterwards.
Agenda
Add powerful features and improve performance of your drupal site with Apachesolr Search
with Audrey Foo, Raincity Studios
If you have a drupal site that is content rich, consider offloading apachesolr search to offload db processing.
- How: setup and configure apachesolr search, jetty, tomcat.
- Schema changes and re-indexing.
- Multiple sites using the same solr engine
- Custom queries to return apachesolr results, e.g. for autocomplete
- Using regular expressions, soundix, and more
Resources
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr
Site Case Study
with Colin Calnan, Raised Eyebrow Web Studio
In this presentation Colin will endeavour to cover some of the challenges faced, solutions developed and hurdles cleared (and some not) during the requirements gathering, planning, design and development stages of a recently launched website for a local political party.
Raised Eyebrow Web Studio Inc. provide strategic, beautiful and effective online communications for clients in the nonprofit, government and progressive business sectors. http://www.raisedeyebrow.com/
Location Details
Raincity Studios
Raincity Studios are located at 1 Alexander Street, Suite 400 in Gastown. [Map]
There's a security intercom at the door, so you'll need to buzz to get in. Take the elevator to the top floor, then take the flight of stairs to the floor above that.
Wireless Access
There is a Free the Net wireless access point accessible from the Raincity offices.
Kid's Room
In recognition of people with families the Raincity conference room is available as a kids room. It is next to the presentation area and has glass walls so your kids will always be in sight. We can't provide child-minding or babysitting services - we just provide the room and leave it to you to entertain your kids. We suggest you bring appropriate toys/books/other entertainment.
Drupal Association
We encourage everyone receiving value from Drupal and the Vancouver League of Drupalers to join the Drupal Association: http://association.drupal.org/membership
Not only does this directly support Drupal, it supports the groups.drupal.org website where our group's web presence is based.
Comments
Agenda
Hi,
Are the two presentations related to each other, i.e. was ApacheSolr used in the case study?
I should be attending but am unsure if I can stay for the entire event. :(
Regards,
Adrian
The presentations are not
The presentations are not related.
Noted. Thanks.
Noted. Thanks.
WOOT SOLR!
been playing with solr too - it now will search document attachments too, if you ask it nicely
looking forward to hearing more about jetty - whatsthat? is it jetty OR tomat?
Thank you
Thanks to Dale for organising the event, and to the speakers: Audrey and Colin. My apologies for leaving early, and not sticking around to get to know more Drupal enthusiasts.
I am setting up a Drupal + Solr platform for my project, so anyone who wants to share notes/experiences are welcome to contact me.
PS: I am also trying to get in touch with the lady who's doing her graduate studies at UBC. I would be grateful if you could kindly contact me, I am interested to know more about the MLIS programme. Thanks.
PDF of presentation on
PDF of presentation on Apache Solr module.
Audrey
Presentation Video
A video of Audrey's presentation is now available at Audrey Foo: Apache Solr Search