Dezi search platform
This week I
announced
the initial release of
Dezi, a new search platform
based on Swish3, Apache Lucy, OpenSearch and Plack.
As of about 15 minutes ago, there are now
PHP
and
Perl clients available.
File under projects/swish
Sat Oct 1 21:47:46 CT 2011
libswish3 1.0.0 released
I am happy to announce the 1.0.0 release of libswish3:
http://swish-e.org/swish3/libswish3-1.0.0.tar.gz
libswish3 is at the core of multiple Swish3 implementations, and has reached a
stable enough API that a 1.0.0 release seems appropriate.
From the README:
libswish3 is a document parser compatible with the Swish-e 2.4 -S prog API.
libswish3 is a C library for parsing documents into a data structure that can
then be stored and searched with a variety of IR backends.
There are currently four different implementations available of Swish3.
- swish_xapian (C++ using libxapian, included in libswish3 distribution)
- SWISH::Prog::Xapian (Perl using Search::Xapian)
- SWISH::Prog::Lucy (Perl using Apache Lucy)
- SWISH::Prog::KSx (Perl using KinoSearch)
All the Perl implementations are available from
CPAN.
They each rely on SWISH::3 (the Perl bindings to libswish3) and the core SWISH::Prog project, a Perl
rewrite of the swish-e 2.x C binary and accompanying helper scripts. The
SWISH::Prog distribution includes a 'swish3' command line interface with options
very similar to the swish-e 2.x command line tool.
Xapian, KinoSearch and Apache Lucy all offer robust UTF-8 and incremental
indexing support, as well as the ability to scale to many millions of documents
across multiple servers.
You can read more about Swish3 at
the devel site.
UPDATE: Mailing list announcement
here.
File under projects/swish
Wed Sep 21 22:03:59 CT 2011
Montessori and Open Source Culture
My kids go to a Montessori school. As parents we have been
very impressed by the philosophy of learning there, and
our kids have thrived.
It should come as no surprise to me then that
there
is a strong link between the Open Source community and Montessori.
File under general/
Fri Aug 19 09:40:23 CT 2011
Al Franken and Ari Discuss Fishing
File under general/
Wed Jun 1 00:00:00 CT 2011
I-94 Corridor and the East Side
I live on the east side of St Paul.
These big
changes to the I-94 corridor would happen within a mile of where I live.
File under general/
Sat May 28 22:39:50 CT 2011
Search::OpenSearch::Server with REST API
Just uploaded several modules to
CPAN that together implement a full REST API
for KinoSearch indexes, using Search::OpenSearch::Server::Plack.
% curl -XPOST http://localhost:5000/foo \
-d '<doc><title>bar</title>foo</doc>' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/xml'
[response:]
{
"success":1,
"doc":{
"orgs":[],
"places":[],
"people":[],
"topics":[],
"summary":"",
"title":"bar",
"author":[]
},
"total":"21581",
"code":"200"
}
The modules are:
Search::OpenSearch 0.11
Search::OpenSearch::Server 0.05
Search::OpenSearch::Engine::KSx 0.08
SWISH::Prog::KSx 0.17
SWSIH::Prog 0.49
File under projects/swish
Thu May 26 13:56:43 CT 2011
Rubber Soul
I've loved the Beatles since the summer of 1983, when I was 11 and my aunt introduced me to their
records (including some rarity vinyl iirc). The first record I ever bought was the blue greatest
hits double record. I played the first side of the first record (Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane, Sergent Peppers, Day in the Life) over and over in 6th and 7th grade.
But it's taken me nearly 30 years to identify my favorite record. I've had lots of favorite songs,
but Rubber Soul is now officially my favorite record. I realize no one but me cares, but it feels important
somehow to have identified an actual studio record, rather than a greatest hits compilation, as my favorite.
File under music/
Sun Mar 20 19:53:57 CT 2011
Mounds Park
From my neighborhood email list:
For all of us interested in what being/been proposed/planned for Indian Mounds Regional Park here is a link to "City of Saint Paul – Indian Mounds Regional Park Master Plan" page. It includes an overview, meeting agenda, notes, presentation along with the Indian Mounds Master Plan Concept.
Link:
http://www.stpaul.gov/index.aspx?NID=4036
File under general/
Fri Feb 4 16:38:47 CT 2011
Bug
My laptop started making a Very Bad Noise on Tuesday morning, the kind of whirring creak
I usually associate with the death throes of a hard drive. It didn't sound exactly like
a hard drive, which often clicks or knocks, and the whir was rather slower paced than
the high RPMs of a hard drive. But as I didn't think this Macbook Pro had a fan, since I had
never heard one, I just assumed the only moving part was the hard drive and so I ordered
a new one online using my wife's computer.
When the drive arrived today, I opened the laptop to swap out the hard drive,
and lo! there was a box elder bug caught in one of the two small fans on the logic board.
Yes, my computer had a bug in it. I pulled out the lifeless, hard little black and orange-striped carcass,
and put the cover back on. Started without problem or Very Bad Noise.
I had thought that the term "bug" used to describe a computer glitch was coined after someone
found a moth in an early computer. But
according to
the all-knowing Wikipedia I was wrong. Nonetheless, I was relieved to discover this bug
and to fix the problem so easily.
And now I have a spare drive for that time when my hard drive really does die.
File under general/
Thu Jan 27 20:16:25 CT 2011
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