Drupal Search and Solr office hours

Nov 29, 2012

Drupal Search has a great ecosystem of modules to integrate with technologies such as Solr. However, it needs more vision and direction to grow and be a great platform where other developers feel comfortable with and are able to make the right decisions. Also

Speed up thumbnail generation on Synology DS212J

Nov 25, 2012

I recently bought a Synology 212J to store all my pictures on, and of course also to play with. I always had some crappy tiny non-modifyable NAS/Media Center solution that I really hated. cough Plextor cough

A Slow Query log script for Tomcat Access logs

Nov 14, 2012

Run this at midnight and you will have all the slow queries in the slow_query.log file

Content Staging with Apache Solr

Nov 7, 2012

We all love test and staging environments but it becomes a problem when you have Solr integrated in your project and you have a test solr, a staging solr and a production solr core. To re-index a site is not a big problem, but what if you want to go live and switch indexes immediately?

Drupal.org has wrestled with this problem. So I wanted to show you how they do it.

Create three Solr cores - mysite_core1 (will be used for tests) - mysite_core2 (will be used for staging initially) - mysite_core3 (will be used for production initially)

Parallel indexing for Apache Solr Search Integration

Oct 24, 2012

Recently I've been involved in drupal.org by upgrading the site to the latest version of Apache Solr Search Integration (from 6.x-1.x to 6.x-3.x, and in the near future to 7.x-1.x). This upgrade path is necessary as we still want to have a unified search capability across Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 sites, for example groups.drupal.org and drupal.org.