Human powered flight has historically been a particularly hard engineering nut to crack. An engineering challenge set by Brittish industrialist Henry Kremer in 1959 went unmet for 18 years — fly an entirely human powered aircraft in a figure eight patt...

I was recently tasked with a project for a client involving Lucene / Solr tokenizers and token streams. It’s common for most Solr users to only have to deal with tokenizers at a high level, usually when they’re building out their schema and deciding ho...