Re: [CODE4LIB] perl6

2008-01-22 Thread Ewout Van Troostenberghe
>On Jan 22, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > >> This was a feature I was not aware of. Does this mean I will be able >> to write Perl programs that use the Java-based Lucene indexer? > >You probably know this, but you could do that now via SOLR, a >webservices-plus-more layer that sits

Re: [CODE4LIB] Whatbird Interface Framework

2007-12-18 Thread Ewout Van Troostenberghe
Hi, Since Django is are already in the Python space, you might consider using Zope as a storage backend and application server. Zope provides an object database which is easier to work with than object-relational mapping. It will probably speed up your development time and allow you to focus on wh

Re: [CODE4LIB] httpRequest javascript.... grrr

2007-11-29 Thread Ewout Van Troostenberghe
To point out why the use of a Javascript framework is important, let me put your code into jQuery (http://jquery.com) $.get('index.cgi', {cmd:'add_tag', username:'username'}, function(html) { // do whatever you want here }) PrototypeJS has a similar, easy to use construct. In the end, using any

Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting started with SOLR

2007-11-23 Thread Ewout Van Troostenberghe
>> How do you fill the index? Our main database has about 700,000 records >> and I don't know if I should build one huge XML-file and feed that into >> SOLR or use a script that sends one record at a time with a commit after >> every 1000 records or so. Or do something in between and split it into