January 2009 Archives

Posted by Mike Mangino on Jul 11, 2006

Speeding up SOLR indexing

We're finishing up a project that uses SOLR and acts_as_solr extensively. Our dataset isn't large, but it's non-trivial as well. We're managing a search index with a little over 100,000 documents in it. Each document has indexes on 12 fields. In general, our search performance is outstanding. We get results almost instantly. Our indexing performance was another story. I'm not a big fan of premature optimization, but when a full reindex took 4 days, I decided something needed to change

Posted by Mike Mangino on Jan 14, 2009

Announcing Facebooker support for Facebook Connect

Over the last few months I've received quite a few requests for Facebook Connect support in Facebooker. Thanks to Kevin Lochner, I'm proud to announce Facebook Connect support in Facebooker. Read on to learn how to create a simple Facebook Connect application.

Posted by Mike Mangino on Jan 02, 2009

Elevated Code