Parallel indexing for Apache Solr Search Integration

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...

Disabling all of Drupal's Cache (D6 and D7)

Sometimes you wished that all of Drupal cache would be disabled for the sake of testing or any other purpose. Just call the enable/disable function at will in your custom code. Dont forget to enable caching for production, if you...

Apache Solr Sequence diagram

To help people understand what this slightly complex module actually does I made some sequence diagrams. There is one for Apache Solr and one for what Acquia Search does to extend it. These resources are also available on drupal.org :...

Let's talk Apache Solr Clean URL's

In this third and fast paced blog series I’ll be talking about Apache Solr Clear Url’s. Some history When we roll back a year or two, I was working for a company where I was working on a search-critical solr...

Acquia Search just got a lot better

[original version, copied to acquia.com] I’ve been a member of the Drupal community for quite some time now. (more than 5 years it seems!). Also I’ve been trying to focus on the Search front, more specifically on the Apache Solr...