ColdFusion 10 now in public beta
Good news courtesy of Adobe’s ColdFusion blog. Of particular interest to readers of Search Smith might be the Solr enhancements in ColdFusion 10. The CFSEARCH tag will now support custom fields above...
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I have not yet had a chance to install the ColdFusion 10 beta and try the new and improved CFSEARCH tag. However, this morning when looking at the Solr enhancements page for CF 10, under “Storing your...
View ArticleColdFusion Solr Tutorial
I’ve started posting a tutorial page on using ColdFusion and Solr, linked to various posts on this blog and with additional commentary. Tweet
View ArticleColdFusion: Running Solr on Jetty
Lucid Imagination has a brief but helpful post on running Solr on Jetty. In ColdFusion 9, Solr runs on Jetty by default (at least under Windows – not sure about Linux or Solaris and I don’t have any...
View ArticleColdFusion and Solr: Dealing with the results
The Solr web service allows you to return results in either XML format or JSON (the format is XML by default; to return results in JSON format, add the parameter “wt=json” to your Solr query string)....
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Some statistics
At some point yesterday this blog passed 200 unique visitors and 400 page views. And today we had our 300th visit. I guess that’s what one would call starting small. On a side note, I’ve recently...
View ArticleSolr: Knowing which fields match
How do you know which fields match your query? For example, if we search our articles index for “malaria,” and we want to know whether we matched the term in title, description, and/or journal_name,...
View ArticleSolr: Showing faceted search stems in human-readable terms
A fascinating question came up on StackOverflow. Suppose you have a Solr core (collection for you ColdFusion peeps) and you want to return the most common terms found in the index. If you facet on a...
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Levenshtein Distance in ColdFusion
It’s been a good long time since I’ve posted here — to be honest, apart from personal and family issues (new baby, moving, etc.) which took away a good chunk of the time that I had formerly set aside...
View ArticleMore Statistics
Odd that my lack of blogging does not seem to have affected traffic on this site! I posted in April of last year that the site had reached 1,000 page views from 400 unique visitors; that was over...
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