I once had a job at an internet company that described themselves as a news aggregation service.
They took in news feeds from sources ranging from Associated Press to Farm Machinery Monthly. My job consisted of writing queries in Unix’s wonderful vi editor. News feeds were run against these queries, and resulting matches [...]
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XML is increasingly popular as the underlying technology for any number of information sharing and exchange standards.
In particular, Michael has shown us how SOLR requires data for ingest to be presented in an XML canonical form:
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<add>
<doc>
<field name”id”>8675309</field>
<field name=”title”>Jenny</field>
<field name=”author”>Tommy [...]
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We have had an R&D instance of Solr up on an internal server for a few weeks now to kick the tires. Solr is pretty easy to get going on whatever machine you may have laying around, the hard part is getting your data into it.
Which isn’t to say it’s particularly hard at all; actually [...]
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