MySQL Search Relevancy Scoring
Aug 24, 2008 5:45:44 PM
Although MySQL's fulltext index functionality allows the relevance of search results to be determined easily, it is often the case that relevance is dependent on non-textual columns, or on business logic that is not easily modeled in a relational database. There are ways, luckily, to score results on these types of factors, but the implementation is not trivial.
phpMyAdmin 3.0.0-alpha released
Aug 11, 2008 10:16:40 AM
phpMyAdmin, that ubiquitous tool we all use for low-level MySQL database access (and some of us for content management as well), has released version 3.0.0-alpha. I had high expectations of the next major version of this tool, which have not been met in this alpha.
Integrating Twitter with a ZF blog
Aug 6, 2008 8:29:13 PM
I've been wondering for a while how I could better communicate with Codecaine.co.za's readers when I publish new posts, or when someone comments on one. I've ruled out email updates as being too intrusive, and while I have implemented RSS feeds both at the post level and at the comment level, I find them to be too passive. Twitter, I've decided, provides an excellent middle ground.
