Eric Pugh
Co-author of "Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server"
Fascinated by the “craft” of software development, Eric Pugh has been heavily involved in the open source world as a developer, committer, and user for the past 5 years. He is an emeritus member of the Apache Software Foundation and lately has been mulling over how we move from the read/write web to the read/write/share web.
In biotech, financial services and defense IT, he has helped European and American companies develop coherent strategies for embracing open source software. As a speaker he has advocated the advantages of Agile practices in software development.
Eric became involved in Solr when he submitted the patch SOLR-284 for Parsing Rich Document types such as PDF and MS Office formats that became the single most popular patch as measured by votes! The patch was subsequently cleaned up and enhanced by three other individuals, demonstrating the power of the Free/Open Source Model to build great code collaboratively. SOLR-284 was eventually refactored into Solr Cell as part of Solr version 1.4.
Eric co-authored "Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server", the first book on Solr.
He blogs at http://www.opensourceconnections.com/blog/.
Blog
HIMSS HealthIT Wrapup
Posted Friday, March 2, 2012
After a couple of exhausting days at HIMSS last week, where I was overwhelmed both by being a first time visitor to the glitz of Las Vegas and the sheer size of the HIMSS exhibit hall, I’ve come to the conclusion that HealthIT is currently running on twmore »Should I Deploy Solr 4.0?
Posted Wednesday, April 27, 2011
I recently had an IRC conversation about Solr 4.0. The main question that the person who was chatting with me had was “How far out is the 4more »Eric Pugh to speak on “Better Search Engine Testing” at STPCon
Posted Friday, March 4, 2011
I’m very excited to be returning to another edition of STPCon, this year in Nashville! This year I will be unveiling a new talk: Better Search Engine Testing, as well as a reprise of Turbocharge your Automated Tests with CI from STPCon 2009. Since more »Presentations
Books
Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server
by David Smiley and Eric Pugh
- The book takes a tutorial approach with fully working examples. It will show you how to implement a Solr-based search engine on your intranet or web site. This book is for developers who would like to use Solr for their applications. You only need to have basic programming skills to use Solr. Knowledge of Lucene is certainly a bonus.
