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Finally got fed up with YourSQL, a no longer supported MySQL client for Mac OS X. Digging around I stumbled upon Sequel Pro (www.sequelpro.com). Extremely fast (YourSQL was horrendously slow), and so far much more stable than mySQL Administrator for OS X. It’s early days using this, but I must say it looks impressive! Mac [...]
Well if 0.9.8.1 was tough, this troubled me so much I considered switching to Xapian. Don’t get me wrong, Xapian is a great looking search engine! But after playing with Sphinx for many months, I didn’t want to start from scratch! The problem started with multi-value attributes (MVA). Basically they don’t work on SUN Solaris [...]
Okay, so the Sphinx Freetext Search Engine is a game changer. Easy easy to index, easy to integrate into PHP / Rails / Django, unbelievably fast (esp. compared to database freetext engines) and easy to install. Okay, so the easy to install thing doesn’t apply to Solaris! The main issue is linking differences because Solaris [...]
The Rails tag plugin acts_as_taggable_on is a handy drop-in feature set for adding tags to your RoR applications. The documentation is slightly more than minimal, and upon peeking under the hood, you find almost no comments. I am in the process of adding a caching table that will be updated asynchronous to the user request [...]
Pretty easy stuff eh? If only I didn’t have an urge to share my working notes with the world. Cluster Commands mongrel_rails cluster::stop mongrel_rails cluster::start mongrel_rails cluster::restart Stand Alone Commands mongrel_rails restart mongrel_rails stop
As many of you know, languages such as Japanese, Chinese & Korean use more than one byte (8-bits) to represent single characters. Because there are so many of them, 8-bits simply does not provide a large enough code space to map them all. Here is a short treatise on how to deal with these issues! [...]