cfObjective 2011 Presenation: Advanced Solr - Going Beyond the Basics of cfsearch
Last month I gave my presentation on some advanced solr use with ColdFusion at cf.objective() 2011.
Sorry for posting my files so late. I always like to post detailed comments in each demo file (explaining what's going on and how I walked through my demonstrations). I just needed to find the time to sit down for a couple hours and write them up. I also cleaned up the code a little better (based on feedback from the audience afterward) and I also styled the pagination used in the last demo (as well as a few other minor styling touches here and there).
Make sure to view the readme.txt file in order to set it up correctly for use. Basically you just need to edit your solr.xml file and tell it where your collection files are (takes 2 min). Then after restarting solr the demo will start working. I explain this in more detail with troubleshooting tips as well in the readme.txt file.
Also please note that I purposefully used bad coding practices and tried to keep the code needed to review inside of each demo file so that it's easy to follow for all audiences (sorry, no frameworks here :).
Download the presentation demo files here (2.4MB zip file). I didn't bother with the slides since they pretty much just jump right into the demos.
Thank you for posting this. I had been patiently waiting since I am about to work on project with Solr. The example code was very helpful to see the different options to pass to Solr.
Thanks Kurt. There's actually much much more Solr can do. I've been reading a lot about it and playing around with lots of code samples. I submitted a topic to discuss it for the Adobe MAX CF Unconference. Hopefully it will be accepted. If not, I'll maybe do a recording presentation and more code samples in a couple months once I've wrapped my head around some more stuff.
Thanks Kurt. Looking forward to your Unconference session at MAX this year
