I am looking at farcry as we speak, it was initially spawned from the need to move away from spectra as I understand it and has some parallels.
I have found the verity stuff to be great but you have to use the K2 engine to get results, cf 7 uses this exclusively (uses a bunch of memory though). It is hugely powerful and is much underused in most cold fusion apps I have come across. It is well worth figuring it out though, you can get it to spider around the place and do all sort of clever matching that would be hard in SQL <soundex> etc. Found this handy resource today in fact: http://www.acfug.org/library/VerityK2SetupGuideWithCF5.pdf It is probably one of the best OEM deals (allaire did a good job here and the legacy of that seems to continue in CF) especially when you consider the actual price of a full verity system (you thought flex was expensive). You can just go ahead and use full text indexing on the tables anyway, we did this for a previous spectra project using MSSQL. You have to be careful with collations and the like but it seemed to work fine. It would be nice to add some new stuff to spectra but I think much of it needs a good going over to harness the new features in cold fusion and this is effectively what farcry has done. But I'm always interested in improving what I have so any ideas along this line are welcome. Doug -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 March 2005 22:56 To: Spectra-Talk Subject: RE: Continuing on Spectra? We just use cf_supercache. I'll have to look into cachitron. We've actually continued to build new Spectra apps and it is one of our bigger growth areas. I'm just looking for ways to make it better. I've been mulling around some changes to how metadata and propertysearching are done. I've never liked the reliance on Verity and the poor performance. Considering adding some new tables instead of collections and using MSSQL Full Text indexing. Just bouncing it around in my head at the moment. I was also going to look at FarCry and how hard it would be to port one of our Spectra apps to it. If that is a shorter path than rebuilding pieces of Spectra then it would be a good idea. Have you taken any legacy Spectra sites to FarCry? "Doug Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/15/2005 05:37 PM Please respond to spectra-talk To: Spectra-Talk <[email protected]> cc: Subject: RE: Continuing on Spectra? Just using it as is on CF 7, with the cachitron cache replacement available from daemon (http://farcry.daemon.com.au/go/spectra/cachitron-2.0). Mainly a legacy thing and will probably be porting a bunch of stuff to farcry in due course. I have to say spectra is still working well, even with its foibles. Shame it got dropped really. Be nice if there was a good bash at it, but with projects like farcry having an established community and a fair bit of momentum it would be difficult to justify the effort needed. Just my thoughts. Doug Cain -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 March 2005 22:05 To: Spectra-Talk Subject: Continuing on Spectra? Since we've had a bit of traffic on the list lately it leads me to believe that at least a few people are doing things with Spectra. With that in mind, I'm curious about how many of you are doing so and if you are modifying the codebase now that it is open source. MM let it go, but it really hasn't been picked up. I'm interested in mods that people might of done to fix broken things, speed performance or extend the code. If there are enough people going forward with it maybe a location for us to share code & knowledge might be in order. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get Instant Hacker Protection, Virus Detection, Antispam & Personal Firewall. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=62 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:17:5641 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/17 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:17 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.17 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
