The MLA put out a list of must-read books. I was pleased to see the Pullman books on the list as I really enjoyed those. I’ve only read about half of the list…
an eddy in the bitstream
Maker of lunches.
Teller of stories.
Singer of songs.
Crafter of code.
Kicker of darkness.
The MLA put out a list of must-read books. I was pleased to see the Pullman books on the list as I really enjoyed those. I’ve only read about half of the list…
Another entry into the blog software space. Lyceum from the good folks over at ibiblio.org. Via my friend Bob. Thanks, Bob.
I have a few web sites I design that are in need of a good community blog software framework. Here’s some research on the topic for my own memory-weak use:
Scoop powers DailyKos, and I like the look/feel of that site.
SlashCode powers a lot of newsy sites. A little too linear for what I’m after. I want more of a user account/diary kind of site. Where people can set up their own home pages and blogs.
PodCMS is a POD-based blog built with Catalyst. As I’m a recent convert to the Ways of Catalyst, I might switch this site to PodCMS. I’m going to test it out tonight.
WordPress is a heavyweight. Need to consider if it’s just the right fit or not.
GeekLog is certainly pretty and seems actively developed.
In the end, I am leaning toward Scoop. It’s Perl, which is obviously good for me since that’s my go-to language. And it’s explicitly community discussion oriented. That’s a good fit for what I have in mind for oealums.org in particular.
Selling my 1999 Saturn. Great car. Good condition. Ad here.
Update 2/28/06: Car is sold.
Always searching for the latest in search engine development.
Some interesting work lately on CPAN.
I had not seen KinoSearch before; a very interesting “loose port” of Lucene written in C and Perl. I need to try it out.
Search::QueryParser also looks promising. I was just thinking that such a thing would be helpful for SWISH::HiLiter and/or HTML::HiLiter … or maybe even Swish-e itself.
Search::ContextGraph is older, one of Maciej Ceglowski’s projects from back before he became a fulltime painter and world traveller.
Search::Estraier is Dobrica Pavlinusic’s pure Perl implementation of the Hyper Estraier Perl API. I know Dobrica’s a big fan of Hyper Estraier, even over Swish-e and Xapian.
Search::FreeText appears to be abandoned, or at least not actively maintained. Last updated in 2003. Too bad; the documentation makes it look interesting anyway. Although it does use DB_File, which I know from experience with Perlfect, does not scale well above 20K+ documents.
Search::Xapian has recently been updated. There’s lots of activity on the Xapian project. It’s at or near the top of candidates for the Swish3 backends.
Search::InvertedIndex is one I had not seen before, but it looks very interesting. I have been thinking about a SwishQL – a SQL backend for Swish3, and Search::InvertedIndex offers a mysql backend. Benjamin Franz wrote it; he also wrote CGI::Minimal, which I used for a while with CrayDoc (contributed a patch too, iirc). I’ll have to come back to this one.
Search::Indexer. Another one I’d not heard of, but which bears investigation. Author Laurent Dami is a familiar name to me, as he also wrote Search::QueryParser (above) and a handy FormBuilder TT patch I’ve been using.
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