Thoughts on Lucene, Solr, crawling and vertical search 

Just got on my hands on a review copy of PacktPub's ElasticSearch Server book, which I believe is the first ES book on the market.

Review to follow shortly..

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Lucene 4.1 introduces new files in the index.

Here's a link to the documentation: https://builds.apache.org/job/Lucene-Artifacts-trunk/javadoc/core/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene41/Lucene41PostingsFormat.html

The different types of files are:

.tim: Term Dictionary
.tip: Term Index
.doc: Frequencies and Skip Data
.pos: Positions
.pay: Payloads and Offsets

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For an app I'm working on, permissions ACL is stored in a string, in the form:

Both users and documents have an ACL string.

The number represents the access level for that category. Bigger numbers mean ...

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Grrrr... keep forgetting the Solr DateField dateformat, so here it is for posterity.

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WTFPL - Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License

http://www.wtfpl.net/

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Here's a gist which helps you install mosh on Dreamhost: https://gist.github.com/andrewgiessel/4486779

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There are a number of examples online which show how to generate HMAC MD5 digests in Java.

Unfortunately, most of them don't generate digests which match the digest examples provided on the HMAC wikipedia page.

HMAC_MD5("key", "The quick brown

...

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http://code.google.com/p/rolling-curl/
A more efficient implementation of curl_multi()

https://github.com/krakjoe/pthreads
http://docs.php.net/manual/en/book.pthreads.php
Posix threads in PHP. Whoa!

http://www.underhanded.org/blog/2010/05/05
Installing Apache Worker over prefork.

http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Apache_vs_nginx
I stumbled on this page when researching the pros/cons of Apache + ...

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Here's a straight Java port of the quicksilver algo, found here: http://orderedlist.com/blog/articles/live-search-with-quicksilver-style-for-jquery/

quicksilver.js contains the actual algorithm in javascript.

It uses the same input strings as the demo page at http://static.railstips.org/orderedlist/demos/quicksilverjs/jquery.html

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There are *numerous* pages online describing how to fix those awful junk characters in a latin1 column caused by unicode characters.

After spending over 2 hours trying out different methods, I found one that's dead simple and actually works: ...

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