…Full-text indexing, I'm interested in other good discussion points about when selecting Sphinx would still be useful.
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Thinking Sphinx 3.0.0 - It's released.
Get Your App Ready for Rails 4 - A list of things to do as you're on the way to upgrading.
Logstalgia - Visualize your web access log as a pong game.
Why Sphinx?
It's restructured text (reST), which is a solid, well-structured authoring format that plays nice with several outputs, including HTML, PDF, and man page. Three things that Chef users need. The topics published at http://docs.opscode.com are using a custom Sphinx theme called "opscode", which is located in the source under _themes/opscode.
How can I contribute?
For starters, fork the repository if you want to author documentation for either your …
…PostgreSQL there is no need to deploy a standalone full-text search engine like Apache Solr, Sphinx, or ElasticSearch. Right out of the box you can easily discover word matches (even on singular and plural words) and also use different dictionaries. There are several gems that make full-text search on PostgreSQL extremely easy to use and we encourage you to give them a try.
Less locking
Some database objects, such as indexes, can be created without holding a lock on the table. This …
My New Book: Developing, Deploying and Debugging Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms - Looks interesting. I'd like it to be published already.
Phusion Passenger Enterprise released - You can finally pay for support on this key part of many infrastructures.
Thinking Sphinx 3 - So far not ready to use, but it's looking interesting.
…Shed Skin gave a 50x speedup, but only accepts a subset of Python. It compiles down to C++. But, using NumPy and Cython, he got 207x speedup (using multiple cores); using prange. NumPy gets behind the GIL. It takes about a day to learn how to do this stuff.
Hieroglyph is an extension for Sphinx which helps you write HTML5 slides from reStructured Text.
Besides releasing new version of Sphinx we're preparing for series of events starting from on-line webinar on March 22nd . Then we're go offline to meet you in person in different places on the earth!
— March 31st-April 1st - Codfest.ru - Novosibirsk, Russia
— April 2nd - Kaltura DevConnect 2012 - New York, NY, USA
— April 3rd - RIT++ Conference - Moscow, Russia
— April 9th - Sphinx in the MySQL Ecosystem …
There are many open source and commercial fulltext search engine, Sphinx is a fast and reliable indexer that supports two popular open source database, thinking-sphinix is best Ruby plugin at the moment to enable Fulltext searching to your Rails application. However, Sphinx has a strict indexing requirement of 32bit or 64bit primary key for target document, so It doesn't work for CouchDB.
CouchDB-lucene is the defacto fulltext search plugin for CouchDB, building …
…. In addition, we will push new features to the beta branch as soon as they are stable enough for real-world applications. But, if you are fascinated (like we are) with bright, shiny, and new things you can always check out our current development version .
On behalf of the Sphinx Team we would like to thank you for use of the Sphinx Engine and wish you a Happy New Year!