Posted by Kelvin on 01 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: programming
Just spent the last 2 hours cleaning up my spam-filled moderation queue, and have enabled Spam Karma (http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/). Apologies to anyone whose comments never made it public!
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Posted by Kelvin on 01 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: programming, Lucene / Solr / Elasticsearch / Nutch
I've had very positive experiences integrating PHP front-end with a Lucene back-end, not with any fancy Java-in-PHP wizardry or Zend Lucene, but plain-old JSON-over-REST. I've done some simple load tests, and it clearly outperforms Zend Lucene (though I don't can't offer you any numbers to back this claim up). Zend Lucene seems to suck bad […]
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Posted by Kelvin on 25 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: blogmark
http://www.svendtofte.com/code/curried_javascript/ Finally, a tutorial on currying I can actually grok.. (Via ianhenderson.org – currying in javascript)
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Posted by Kelvin on 25 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: blogmark
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-tutorial.html (Via Curl: questions about the PHP cURL multi interace)
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Posted by Kelvin on 14 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: blogmark
http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/cdrecording/
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Posted by Kelvin on 13 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: blogmark
http://www.wormus.com/leakytap/Internet/CustomKeywords Repository of Firefox quick searches
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Posted by Kelvin on 03 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: blogmark
http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html
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Posted by Kelvin on 02 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: blogmark
http://lucene-qe.sourceforge.net/
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Posted by Kelvin on 01 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: blogmark
http://osx.portraitofakite.com/ (Via More Ajax Goodness! – Mashable!)
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Posted by Kelvin on 01 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: programming, Lucene / Solr / Elasticsearch / Nutch, crawling
Alright. I know I've blogged about this before. Well, I'm revisiting it again. My sense is that there's a real need for a simple crawler which is easy to use as an API and doesn't attempt to be everything to everyone. Yes, Nutch is cool, but I'm so tired of fiddling around with configuration files, […]