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Hopefully the title of this post got your attention! One of my (very few) readers asked about the Japanese text transformations I use to enhance Japanese and English mixed text queries. I promised to post some of the snippets, so here they are.
About 4 months ago I was wondering how hard it would be to get Sphinx to work in Japanese. This fantastic freetext search engine by Andrew Aksyonoff has literally changed my approach to web development. At the time there were instructions for Chinese, but no Japanese unicode character map. Basically, Sphinx needs a “guide” to [...]
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 [...]