e-commerce site that uses SolrNet goes live...

[Howard van Rooijen]

Hello SolrNet Community,

I just wanted to let you know that an e-commerce site that uses Solr & SolrNet at it's core for search, browse and faceted navigation has just been released into the wild: 

http://www.fancydressoutfitters.co.uk

For those who are interested - here's a little background:

- We ran the project using Scrum, delivered in 20 weeks: 10 x 2 week iterations

- The core architecture is based on the S#arp Architecture framework (we added support for multiple databases, ViewModels etc...)
- Integrated other OSS projects into the solution:
  - N2CMS
  - Spark View Engine
  - xVal Validation Framework
  - AutoMapper (for entity / view model mapping)
  - PostSharp (for cross cutting concerns - logging, performance counters, caching)
  - MBUnit / Gallio for our BDD Framework
- Over 700 BDD Specs
- Solution performs very well - 1000 concurrent users per web server, generating around 180 pages per second across 2x single quad core 64bit servers.

I wanted to say a HUGE thank-you to everyone in this community for creating such a wonderful .NET interface to Solr - it's been an absolute pleasure to work with.

/Howard

[Mauricio Scheffer]

That's very cool, thanks for sharing!

By any chance, are you using the new NHibernate integration?

Here's a couple of free suggestions:
- Hide the facet parameters in the URL... it's more SE-friendly.
Examples: http://www.breakalease.com/ http://jobhits.co.uk/
- Again for SEO reasons, change at least the page title and h1
whenever the user selects a facet. See how I did it at http://www.breakalease.com/
- Provide multiple facet selection, especially for prices, so that
people can select a wider range. Again http://www.breakalease.com/ as
reference.

Cheers,
Mauricio

On Oct 9, 7:52 am, Howard van Rooijen <howard.vanrooi...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello SolrNet Community,
> I just wanted to let you know that an e-commerce site that uses Solr &
> SolrNet at it's core for search, browse and faceted navigation has just been
> released into the wild:
>

> http://www. <http://www.fancydressoutfitters.co.uk/>fancydressout<http://www.fancydressoutfitters.co.uk/>
> fitters.co.uk <http://www.fancydressoutfitters.co.uk/>

[Howard van Rooijen]

Wow - thanks for the ideas - will put them on the backlog!

No - we haven't used NH integration as the actual search work was done a while ago - before you had developed that feature - but it's something to look at going forward!

Again thanks for the framework and tips!

/Howard

[Jonathan Adams (Watchfinder)]

What do you use for your URL re-writing ?


Regards

Jonathan

[Lai Minh Duc]

Jonathan,

If you're using Solr.NET & IIS, you can use IIS URL Rewrite: http://www.iis.net/expand/URLRewrite

It requires IIS 7 to install.

Duc.

--
Duc Lai
JobHits Ltd - UK Job Search Engine
http://www.jobhits.co.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 20 32 860 860
Email: dl...@jobhits.co.uk

[Jonathan Adams (Watchfinder)]

Thanks Duc

Shame, I am still using II6 and http://urlrewriter.net/

I will figure something out :)

Thanks !


Jonathan

On Nov 17, 10:40 am, Lai Minh Duc <laiminh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jonathan,
>
> If you're using Solr.NET & IIS, you can use IIS URL Rewrite:http://www.iis.net/expand/URLRewrite
>
> It requires IIS 7 to install.
>
> Duc.
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Jonathan Adams (Watchfinder) <
>

> jonathan.adam...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What do you use for your URL re-writing ?
>
> > Regards
>
> > Jonathan
>
> --
> Duc Lai

> JobHits Ltd - UK Job Search Enginehttp://www.jobhits.co.uk

> Phone: +44 (0) 20 32 860 860

> Email: d...@jobhits.co.uk

[Mauricio Scheffer]

I'm using IIRF: http://www.codeplex.com/IIRF

On Nov 17, 7:41 am, "Jonathan Adams (Watchfinder)"
<jonathan.adam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Duc
>
> Shame, I am still using II6 andhttp://urlrewriter.net/

[Jonathan Adams (Watchfinder)]

Thanks for the link, I will check this out

On Nov 17, 12:20 pm, Mauricio Scheffer <mauricioschef...@gmail.com>
wrote: