Yea I just submitted my Drupalcon San Franciso 2010 session now I have to wait to see if it's worthy of a talk fingers crossed
Here are the details and the Drupal Con session submission link just in case you where wanting to vote for it on Feb 16th, 2010:
Here is a possible option for creating a multiple field search handler in Drupal
The problem:
Say I have a property website and I wanted to to offer users the ability to search on a number of different fields in my Solr index. At the moment in the Solr admin interface you have the ability to put content bias on a number of predefined fields. Whilst useful it doesn't give you very fine grained control.
Overview
Thought I would quickly get down on paper (all be it virtual) some of the work that is in progress on the Drupal 6 upgrade of the nutch module.
Over the past month I have been redeveloping the Drupal 6 version of the Nutch module. In past implementations the Nutch module has used the open search client module to display its crawl results while this was a prefectly reasonable solution I felt that to continue down this line was not right for a number of reasons.
I have been using the Drupal Apache Solr module since about May 2008 and have seen it evolve into a awsome feature rich module. It is now in a state that it is able to do most of the standard things you need for a client build out of the box including field boosting, more like this and faceted search. The only things I always ended up adding patches for was returning custom fields (to the fl "field list" param) and messing with the results returned from Solr e.g.
Recent I was tasked with looking at how I could scale our current infrastruce onto Amazons EC2 under high load. I decided that although there where ALOT of different flavours of community ami's on offer I would really like to roll my own as this would give me total control what was and wasn't installed.
The route I choose was it create a Centos 5.2 VMWare image then convert it to an ami using the amzon tool library. This created larger ami images but seemed to be the quickest and easiest way to do it. Below I have outlined the steps I took.
A great keynote speech by Dan Brickley who gave insight in the future of how website builders can leverage the power of semantic markup
