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.
A great keynote speech by Dan Brickley who gave insight in the future of how website builders can leverage the power of semantic markup
