If you haven’t seen this site, you should check it out. TED.com is a site containing presentations and information from the TED conferences (Technology, Entertainment, Design). The top representatives from a variety of fields present short (usually less than 20 minutes) talks about their area of expertise. There is a lot of […]
Entries from May 2008
TED.com is cool
May 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Commentary
Full Text Searching a Wikipedia Database
May 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments
In my previous article, I explained how I downloaded an XML dump of the wikipedia articles and built a SQL Anywhere database with the data.
In order to test version 11, I created a full text index on the title and article data and populated the index:
CREATE TEXT INDEX "wikidex" ON "DBA"."wikipedia"
( […]
Tags: Development
Building a Blog - Implementation Part II
May 7th, 2008 · No Comments
At the end of my last post regarding blog creation, I had gotten to the point of creating the Wordpress blog based on SQL Anywhere. Unfortunately, the admin. console didn’t work and I couldn’t post or view my new blog.
The problem was the MySQL-specific syntax used in the Wordpress code. Fortunately, SQL Anywhere […]
Tags: Development
