Eating dog food with Lucene by Michael McCandless.
From the post:
Eating your own dog food is important in all walks of life: if you are a chef you should taste your own food; if you are a doctor you should treat yourself when you are sick; if you build houses for a living you should live in a house you built; if you are a parent then try living by the rules that you set for your kids (most parents would fail miserably at this!); and if you build software you should constantly use your own software.
So, for the past few weeks I’ve been doing exactly that: building a simple Lucene search application, searching all Lucene and Solr Jira issues, and using it instead of Jira’s search whenever I need to go find an issue.
It’s currently running at jirasearch.mikemccandless.com and it’s still quite rough (feedback welcome!).
Now there’s a way to learn the details!
Makes me think about the poor search capabilities at an SDO I frequent.
Could be a way to spend some quality time with Lucene and Solr.
Will have to give it some thought.