mattdw

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   by mattdw 17y ago

   > I've made three sites in python/django, it works but the ORM is very limiting and I keep hearing that forms are hell (but I rolled my own forms, so that wasn't a big deal). Huh. That's not been my experience at all. I guess if you're
2. 182.▲
   by mattdw 17y ago

   I started using Python about 5 years ago, but still used PHP for my main dev for a couple of years. PHP gradually got more and more painful to go back to, though, the more Python I wrote, and eventually I ditched PHP for all but mostly-stat
3. 183.▲
   by mattdw 17y ago

   Using the iPoad for programming could be tricky; there is an explicit policy disallowing user-accessible runtimes.
4. 184.▲
   by mattdw 17y ago

   I'm only using on a pretty small scale – around 500-600 blog posts. It takes about 10 seconds to build the index from scratch (including tokenising and stemming everything), and queries are effectively instantaneous.
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   by mattdw 17y ago

   couchdb-lucene, which is what I was looking at, does require its own JVM. I didn't think to look at using Lucene directly. On the other hand, I'm quite happy with how this turned out, it's one less dependency, and it's been fun to write.
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   by mattdw 17y ago

   Fair question. I'm running couchdb for a new project, and Lucene is the 'blessed' search backend for that. However, (at least via couchdb) Lucene needs a whole JVM of its own, and I'm planning to run this on a VPS with pretty tight resource