Perhaps, you will enjoy mine then: http://www.packtpub.com/apache-solr-for-indexing-data/book .
I will send a formal announcement to the list a little later, but basically this is a book for advanced beginners and early intermediates and takes them from a basic index to multilingual indexing with bells and whistles. Covers a small part of Solr (Solr is big!), but shows how different parts work together. It's structured as a cookbook but the narrative is a journey. Regards, Alex. Personal blog: http://blog.outerthoughts.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD book) On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Yago Riveiro <yago.rive...@gmail.com> wrote: > IMHO I prefer narrative, as Erick says, explain all use-cases it's > impossible, cover the base cases is a good start. Either way I miss a book > about solr different to a cookbook or a guide. > > Regards. > > -- > Yago Riveiro > Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) > > > On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Erick Erickson wrote: > >> FWIW, picking up on Alexandre's point. One of my continual >> frustrations with virtually _all_ >> technical books is they become endless pages of details without ever >> mentioning why >> the hell I should care. Unfortunately, explaining use-cases for >> everything would only make >> the book about 10,000 pages long. Siiigggggh. >> >> I guess you can take this as a vote for narrative.... >> >> Erick >> >> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com >> (mailto:j...@basetechnology.com)> wrote: >> > We'll have a blog for the book. We hope to have a first >> > raw/rough/partial/draft published as an e-book in maybe 10 days to 2 weeks. >> > As soon as we get that process under control, we'll start the blog. I'll >> > keep your email on file and keep you posted. >> > >> > -- Jack Krupansky >> > >> > -----Original Message----- From: Swati Swoboda >> > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 1:36 PM >> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org (mailto:solr-user@lucene.apache.org) >> > Subject: RE: Note on The Book >> > >> > >> > I'd definitely prefer the spiral bound as well. E-books are great and your >> > draft version seems very reasonably priced (aka I would definitely get it). >> > >> > Really looking forward to this. Is there a separate mailing list / etc. for >> > the book for those who would like to receive updates on the status of the >> > book? >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> > Swati Swoboda >> > Software Developer - Igloo Software >> > +1.519.489.4120 sswob...@igloosoftware.com >> > (mailto:sswob...@igloosoftware.com) >> > >> > Bring back Cake Fridays – watch a video you’ll actually like >> > http://vimeo.com/64886237 >> > >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Jack Krupansky [mailto:j...@basetechnology.com] >> > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 7:15 PM >> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org (mailto:solr-user@lucene.apache.org) >> > Subject: Note on The Book >> > >> > To those of you who may have heard about the Lucene/Solr book that I and >> > two >> > others are writing on Lucene and Solr, some bad and good news. The bad >> > news: >> > The book contract with O’Reilly has been canceled. The good news: I’m going >> > to proceed with self-publishing (possibly on Lulu or even Amazon) a >> > somewhat >> > reduced scope Solr-only Reference Guide (with hints of Lucene). The scope >> > of >> > the previous effort was too great, even for O’Reilly – a book larger than >> > 800 pages (or even 600) that was heavy on reference and lighter on “guide” >> > just wasn’t fitting in with their traditional “guide” model. In truth, Solr >> > is just too complex for a simple guide that covers it all, let alone Lucene >> > as well. >> > >> > I’ll announce more details in the coming weeks, but I expect to publish an >> > e-book-only version of the book, focused on Solr reference (and plenty of >> > guide as well), possibly on Lulu, plus eventually publish 4-8 individual >> > print volumes for people who really want the paper. One model I may pursue >> > is to offer the current, incomplete, raw, rough, draft as a $7.99 e-book, >> > with the promise of updates every two weeks or a month as new and revised >> > content and new releases of Solr become available. Maybe the individual >> > e-book volumes would be $2 or $3. These are just preliminary ideas. Feel >> > free to let me know what seems reasonable or excessive. >> > >> > For paper: Do people really want perfect bound, or would you prefer spiral >> > bound that lies flat and folds back easily? I suppose we could offer both – >> > which should be considered “premium”? >> > >> > I’ll announce more details next week. The immediate goal will be to get the >> > “raw rough draft” available to everyone ASAP. >> > >> > For those of you who have been early reviewers – your effort will not have >> > been in vain. I have all your comments and will address them over the next >> > month or two or three. >> > >> > Just for some clarity, the existing Solr Wiki and even the recent >> > contribution of the LucidWorks Solr Reference to Apache really are still >> > great contributions to general knowledge about Solr, but the book is >> > intended to go much deeper into detail, especially with loads of examples >> > and a lot more narrative guide. For example, the book has a complete list >> > of >> > the analyzer filters, each with a clean one-liner description. Ditto for >> > every parameter (although I would note that the LucidWorks Solr Reference >> > does a decent job of that as well.) Maybe, eventually, everything in the >> > book COULD (and will) be integrated into the standard Solr doc, but until >> > then, a single, integrated reference really is sorely needed. And, the book >> > has a lot of narrative guide and walking through examples as well. Over >> > time, I’m sure both will evolve. And just to be clear, the book is not a >> > simple repurposing of the Solr wiki content – EVERY description of >> > everything has been written fresh, from scratch. So, for example, analyzer >> > filters get both short one-liner summary descriptions as well as more >> > detailed descriptions, plus formal attribute specifications and numerous >> > examples, including sample input and outputs (the LucidWorks Solr Reference >> > does a better job with examples as well.) >> > >> > The book has been written in parallel with branch_4x and that will >> > continue. >> > >> > -- Jack Krupansky >
