I'm about to start building a small search engine that will be used to search through a collection of 366 books, I should be able to use controls as exclude words, exact matches and a thesaurus search.
Indexing
First step would be to index the contents, I reckon that in here the bulk of the work should be done here to speed things up in the actual search.
Step 1: Merge the contents of all the books which are separated into individual text files into a single flat text file, which would look something like this:
1 1 Merchant of Syracuse, ple…
I love CGI::Application I find it robust and lightweight, and for the kind of applications I have to develop, I find myself using it constantly.
Right now I'm starting a new project in which I need the ability to make the app "pluggable", meaning that I want the ability to have the whole application divided in modules which can be auto-discovered. I took the initial idea from Catalyst, so I wanted to make that behavior available on CGI::App.
To be able to do this I need to be able to:
- Detect all avai…
The Muses in Greek mythology are the goddesses or spirits who inspire the creation of arts; they were considered the source of the knowledge. And I believe as a programmer you need your muse.
Most of the time whenever I talk with people about what I do, they automatically start picturing me as some kind of a robot which rambles on for hours in a language they don't understand, but computers do.
I don't blame them, it's hard to put "computer" and "free-will" in the same sentence, because computers are nothing but machines that fo…
I love Perl and I'm fortunate enough to make a living coding in it.