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Comment on Zend_Search_Lucene Tips by Lachlan Pease

Lachlan Pease — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:42:29 +0000

An excellent article that I’ll certainly be leveraging, and recommending to anyone interested in full-text search in PHP. I might recommend, however, that you use the following implementation of My_Filter_Searchable – it should be faster (even if only marginally), and use less memory.

class My_Filter_Searchable extends Zend_Filter { public function __construct() { parent::__construct(); $this->addFilter('StripTags') ->addFilter('Alnum') ->addFilter('StringTrim') ->addFilter('StringToLower'); } }

Comment on Stack Overflow Fatigue? by exoboy

exoboy — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:01:51 +0000

When I started using SO, it was great! I often asked questions and answered them.

However, lately I have noticed that within MOMENTS of posting a question I get a flurry of “You don’t want to do it that way” comments. Or I get immediately tagged with a “This is a duplicate question” tag, even though I searched and found nothing similar enough to truly be considered a duplicate. Or, I get a lot of comments on why this is a bad question…. Holy #$%@! I just want some help, I do not want a critique on my very existence.

Honestly, all of these bad-taggers are making it more about the procedural rules and accepted behaviors then about the QUESTIONS…. this is why I find myself going back less and less. If you don’t do things they way THEY would, then be prepared for an onslaught of crap.

I love the idea of SO, but something needs to be done about all of the white-noise generating users who have nothing better to do than to nit pic over useless minutiae.

If you don’t like a question, don’t vote it down! Just don’t answer it or comment and let it die in obscurity….

Sheesh!

Comment on Zend_Search_Lucene Tips by Zend_Search_Lucene Tips « madclog.nl

Zend_Search_Lucene Tips « madclog.nl — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:26:12 +0000

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Comment on Partial vs. Helper in the Zend Framework: When to use which? by Ivan Ilijasic

Ivan Ilijasic — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 11:00:06 +0000

Good article. I’ve been playing with ZF for a while and this is my practice:
- If I need some functionality that I’ll use in almost every page, I use helper. For example, I use helper to display if user is logged
- If I have specific module for my right sidebar, I use partial helper method because If I have several modules with different display logic for each page, it’s much easier for me to have a specific template snippet with it’s own model.
- If I have some static snippets (footer, static header logo part etc.) I use render method

Comment on Rediska and Sesh: Minimizing RAM usage in your session. by Jak Sprats

Jak Sprats — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 02:18:52 +0000

Im a redis user and I was working on a project that had to be very tight w/ RAM, so I forked redis and came up w/ redisql (code: http://github.com/JakSprats/Redisql documentation: http://code.google.com/p/redisql/). Redisql is basically a SQL database on top of redis, so it is almost (85% speed) as fast as redis, but it has a lot of memory optimisations that redis does not, because I REALLY needed to be tight w/ RAM.

The project may be of interest to you, and I forked rediska and wrote a client: (http://github.com/JakSprats/Rediska) so trying it out should be straightforward, in your case.

If your data can fit into a schema, this is a definite win in terms of memory usage.

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Comment on Migrating to Apache Solr from Zend_Search_Lucene by Lanell Underwood

Lanell Underwood — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:45:13 +0000

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Comment on Migrating to Apache Solr from Zend_Search_Lucene by Elfrieda Veteto

Elfrieda Veteto — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:56:40 +0000

This is a great post and may be one that needs to be followed up to see what are the results

A neighbor emailed this link the other day and I am desperately hoping for your next blog post. Keep on on the the best work.

Comment on Rediska and Sesh: Minimizing RAM usage in your session. by Celia Thein

Celia Thein — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:45:41 +0000

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Comment on Stack Overflow Fatigue? by gf

gf — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:24:02 +0000

I think SO is great to be honest, it's the only place on the internet that I know of that you can get answers from people who understand what you're talking about.

Places like ExpertsExchange, Yahoo! Answers and good old newsgroups just don't cut it these days and this is an area where SO thrives as it capitlises on the advantages of all those platforms - but without all the guff to go with it.

I don't see the SO platform as some sort of achievement/level up system anymore, I just see it as a nice place to go to either

a) Read up on interesting topics
b) Help someone with a problem

It's a nice safe haven for programmers and that can't be a bad thing!