Ruben tag:blogs.perl.org,2009-11-03:/users/ruben//710 2011-02-06T02:26:42Z A blog about the Perl programming language Movable Type Pro 4.38 QueryHunt my little experiment tag:blogs.perl.org,2011:/users/ruben//710.1427 2011-02-05T21:42:37Z 2011-02-06T02:26:42Z For over a month I have been working on a little project called QueryHunt. it is a questions and answers search engine powered by yahoo BOSS. Why did I decide to use Perl for this project? When I started working... Ruben http://queryhunt.com/ For over a month I have been working on a little project called QueryHunt.
it is a questions and answers search engine powered by yahoo BOSS.

Why did I decide to use Perl for this project?

When I started working on this project I had just started to learn Perl, I was planning to write the site in PHP.
Perl had a lot of promising features that would make the development process easier in the long run
some of this features are

  • Easy XML parsing
  • Regex support (Vital to discard results that were neither a question or an answer.)
  • DBI (in case I decided to give PostgreSQL a try compatibility issues wouldn't be an obstacle)

so for obvious reasons I ended up using Perl, The site has now been running for about 2 months and I'm more than happy with it.

I'm not on vacations anymore so I don't get to work on it so much but I have a lot of ideas and I have started to work on a home-made crawler that I will be more than happy to share with Perl programmers.

I will keep updating this post to write about obstacles I face and other things that might help programmers that are working on similar projects.

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