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-- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com Solr Training - www.solrtraining.com On 18. nov. 2011, at 06:17, Smiley, David W. wrote: > Fellow Solr users, > > I am proud to announce that the book "Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server" > is officially published! This is the second edition of the first book on > Solr by me, David Smiley, and my co-author Eric Pugh. You can find full > details about the book, download a free chapter, and purchase it here: > http://www.packtpub.com/apache-solr-3-enterprise-search-server/book > It is also available through other channels like Amazon. You can feel good > about the purchase knowing that 5% of each sale goes to support the Apache > Software Foundation. If you buy directly from the publisher, then the basis > of the percentage that goes to the ASF (and to me) is higher than if you buy > it through other channels. > > This book naturally covers the latest features in Solr as of version 3.4 like > Result Grouping and Geospatial, but this is not a small update to the first > book. We have more experience with Solr and we've listened to reader > feedback from the first edition. No chapter was untouched: Faceting gets its > own chapter, all search relevancy matters are discussed in one chapter, > auto-complete approaches are all discussed together, much of the chapter on > integration was rewritten to discuss newer technologies, and the first > chapter was greatly streamlined. Furthermore, each chapter has a tip in the > introduction that advises readers in a hurry on what parts should be read now > or later. Finally, we developed a 2-page parameter quick-reference appendix > that you will surely find useful printed on your desk. In summary, we > improved the existing content, and added about 25% more by page count. > > Software, errata, and other information about this book and the previous > edition is on our website: > http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com/ > We've been working hard on this book for the last 10 months and we hope it > really helps saves you time and improves your search project! > > "Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server" In Detail: > > If you are a developer building an app today then you know how important a > good search experience is. Apache Solr, built on Apache Lucene, is a wildly > popular open source enterprise search server that easily delivers powerful > search and faceted navigation features that are elusive with databases. Solr > supports complex search criteria, faceting, result highlighting, > query-completion, query spell-check, relevancy tuning, and more. > > Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server is a comprehensive reference guide for > every feature Solr has to offer. It serves the reader right from initiation > to development to deployment. It also comes with complete running examples > to demonstrate its use and show how to integrate Solr with other languages > and frameworks. > > Through using a large set of metadata about artists, releases, and tracks > courtesy of the MusicBrainz.org project, you will have a testing ground for > Solr, and will learn how to import this data in various ways. You will then > learn how to search this data in different ways, including Solr's rich query > syntax and "boosting" match scores based on record data. Finally, we'll > cover various deployment considerations to include indexing strategies and > performance-oriented configuration that will enable you to scale Solr to meet > the needs of a high-volume site. > > Sincerely, > > David Smiley (primary author) david.w.smi...@gmail.com > Eric Pugh (co-author) ep...@opensourceconnections.com >
