[Catalyst] Re: New Catalyst Book?

Jesse Sheidlower jester at panix.com
Fri Feb 6 22:41:36 GMT 2009


On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 05:35:35PM +0000, Chisel Wright wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 12:30:03PM -0500, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> > Hmm. As someone who just incorporated an external search
> > engine into two different Cat apps, I would have loved to have
> > had such a chapter available....
> 
> Quick! Write down what you did! :)

Thanks for all the calls to share this; let me think about how
to do this.

I was using Sphinx Search, which is superfast and powerful and
not all that well documented; at least, the docs sort of
assume that you know what you're doing, so it was hard for me
to work around. (I've found this to be the case with other
search engines, as well--even if there are Perl bindings on
CPAN, they're not detailed about how to actually use the damn
thing.) (Sphinx is also covered in an appendix of the new
High-Performance MySQL book from O'Reilly, but with a similar
treatment--lots of details about why you should use it if you
have a 2G table with 10M hits/day and need such-and-such
grouping queries, but nothing about how to actually integrate
it into an app.)

I'm now using it in two apps, but I'm not sure that the way
I'm using it is going to be of broader relevance, esp. to
people who do have a good idea of what they're doing. Let me
look things over, and I'll wiki it if I think there's really
something useful.

Jesse



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