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PHP db search engine, Is it better to use and existing API?

I've been recommended to work with an existing API like Sphider, but I'm having trouble understanding how to configure it and what the hell does retrieving values from DB have to do with page indexing (it's not a content pages website). I was thinking of building a simple search myself with MyISAM tables. Does my plan have any downsides...

What engine powers the GWT Hosted Mode browser?

From what I've read/viewed online about using GWT, the key is to develop/debug in the Hosted Mode browser versus compiling and testing in normal browsers. As a UI developer - the rendering engine is a key piece of the puzzle when using a custom/embedded browser. Thus (since I can't find the info anywhere), what browser rendering engine...

How-to create a REST service with Google App Engine and Python?

I want to create a RESTFUL web service that gets a request via the URL that is accessed and then returns the appropriate document for that client. For example, if it was a weather app and I wanted to get the weather for Atlanta through a web browser, I would access http://weatherapp.appspot.com/temperature/Atlanta and it would return an...

Unexpected MySQL table engine change?

I've been adding tables to MySQL databases by copying & pasting from a file into the mysql command-line app. My procedure is to copy the CREATE TABLE statement from the file and paste it into my development database and then also paste it into the test database on another machine. I'm the only one using the test database. My CREATE TA...

ASP.NET MVC Spark view engine for designers, do they like it?

I am in the process of building a large asp.net Mvc project and have a question regarding the default rendering engine opposed to the MVC Spark engine in the context for designers. I am all in favour of reducing my tag soup and can see that the spark engine is neat, very neat and I for one would welcome it. However does anyone have an e...

How can I bend a a display object ?

I want to make collage, Example : http://www.as3.ro/p1%5Fanim4.swf (1.4 mb); I want to bend images using as3. ...

KATO Resource Script Compiler

Hi, I'm new to Iphone game dev, Is there any thing called Kato Resource Script Compiler, used in iPhone game development or any other game development platforms, Thank you in advance. ...

Is there any free/open source map engine for iPhone?

Hi I have a bunch of map images and i wonder if there is any free/open source map engine that I can use for iPhone development. Just like google map api but they are for native development ...

flash forum eingine (script) needed

Do any of you happen to know any flash forum scripts? I've so far found only the one called "FlashForum engine" www.chargedweb.com/ff/ Are there any other competitive engines on the web? I couldn't manage to find any others :( ...

Regular expression to detect the search engine and search words

Hi all, I need to detect search engines that refers to my website. Since every search engine has different query strings for searching(e.g. google uses 'q=', yahoo uses 'p=') I created a database for search engines with their url regex patterns. As an example: http://www.google.com/search?q=blabla&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&amp...

Creating a search engine for my site (should I use Yahoo BOSS?)

I'd like to create a search engine for my photo sharing website. The search engine would just need to return results based on "tag" words. Photos would be sorted by popularity, newness, or a combination of the two. I was curious whether I could just use the Yahoo BOSS api to accomplish this instead of setting up my own search engine (us...

Inverted index in a search engine

Hello there, I'm trying to write some code to make a small application for searching text from files. Files should be crawled, and I need to put an inverted index to boost searches. My problem is that I kind of have ideas about how the parser would be, I'm willing to implement the AND, NOT, OR in the query. Whereas, I couldn't figure...

Parsing AND, OR query to formulate sql

I'm developping a mini search engine, and I want to implement the feature of searches based on logic operators AND OR... I'm having a difficulty on parsing a query containing AND, OR, NOT... especially when it comes to parentheses... (cat or dog) not (bike not mike) For simple AND, and OR queries, it's obviously too simple and I figure...

robocode engine: how to design (write) the runtime engine -- the robot world

IBM has (had) a free learn-Java program called RoboCode, in which custom robots could be written that would then do battle in a 2D space. I would like to write the environment that supports such robots, but don't know what pattern or design to use. Each robot is a thread. Each thread is given a certain (indeterminate) amount of run-ti...

Culling offscreen tiles in an Isometric engine

For a university term project, I'm working on a graphical roguelike (I'm aware of the contradiction in terms :P) that uses an isometric display. What I'm trying to figure out is, since drawing all the tiles is stupidly expensive and unnecessary, I'm wanting to figure out a relatively fast algorithm to determine which tiles should be dra...

Perspective correct texture mapping; z distance calculation might be wrong

Hi, I'm making a software rasterizer, and I've run into a bit of a snag: I can't seem to get perspective-correct texture mapping to work. My algorithm is to first sort the coordinates to plot by y. This returns a highest, lowest and center point. I then walk across the scanlines using the delta's: // ordering by y is put here order[0...

Calling MATLAB from C

I'm writing a Java application that needs to be able to run MATLAB commands. To do so, I'm using a C program that the Java application can call upon to interface with MATLAB. However, even after researching the MATLAB engine, I can't seem to figure out how to compile the C program. This documentation seems to be compiling the C program f...

Open Source Rule Engine Written in Java

Hi, I am working on an AI related application. For this application I need to have a rule engine. Jess is a good rule engine completely written in Java. But for my application I can’t use it due to license restrictions. Can somebody tell me an open source rule engine written in Java? ...

Web Search API for 25000-50000 Entries (Java)

I have 20000-50000 entries in an excel file. One column contains the name of that company. Ideally, I would like search the name of that company, and whatever is the first result, I would select the URL associated with it. I am aware that Google (which my ideal choice) provides a AJAX Search API. However, it also has a 1000 search limit ...

Code improvements for implementing business logic

I had asked this question previously on SO. This is related to it. We have code base similar to this: IRecipie FindRecipiesYouCanMake(IEnumerable<Ingredientes> stuff, Cook cook) { if(stuff.Any(s=>s.Eggs && s.Flour) && cook.DinerCook) { if(s=>s.Sugar) return new Pancake("Yum"); if(s=>s.Salt) return new Omlette("Yay"); } /*....