Archive for December, 2007

Solr pure negatvie queries

« 20 December 2007 | 13:51 | solr | No Comments »

Over at SolrQuerySyntax on the Solr wiki they claim that you can do pure negative searches ( i.e. searches for all records that don’t have a value for a given field ) by using the syntax:
-field:[* TO *]
However, using this was throwing errors for me until I switched to:
-field:[* TO ]
Now you know.



From snail mail to email

« 3 December 2007 | 15:36 | misc | No Comments »

This service seems super cool: http://www.earthclassmail.com/. It basically scans your mail and sends it to you as a pdf with the option of having certain items recycled, shredded, or forwarded to you unopened.
I hate opening mail and dealing with filing/shredding/recycling things and this seems like it could make my life a tad easier.
Now if they […]