In the interest of eating our own dogfood, dezi.org is now using the dezi-for-wordpress WordPress plugin to power the search on this site.
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This project came to my attention today: https://github.com/AF83/desi. Too bad the name and subject matter is so close to Dezi. A little googling first might have prevented that. But no, Dezi and this new Desi project have nothing to do with one another.
Just uploaded to CPAN are Search::OpenSearch 0.21 and Search::OpenSearch::Server 0.20. These releases add the Tiny JSON response format and the ability to limit your responses to a subset of the available fields. Now all you minimalists can strip down your Dezi responses to bare bones JSON. Example: curl ‘http://localhost:5000/search?q=foo&t=Tiny&x=’ will return the only the built-in […]
Dezi 0.1.8 has been uploaded to CPAN. New versions of the PHP, Perl and Python clients have also been released. This new version of Dezi introduces a big performance optimization, in the form of transactions. Previous versions would open a new Indexer on every HTTP request, calling $indexer->finish() on every document addition. While that request […]
A new version of Dezi::UI is now on CPAN. Version 0.001002 now uses jQuery instead of ExtJS for a lighter weight example. Get it from https://metacpan.org/module/Dezi::UI
Version 0.1.4 has been released to CPAN. New in this version is support for Dezi::UI, an example HTML interface for exploring a Dezi index.
Switched from Drupal to WordPress. Much better experience IMO.
Dezi now supports a Xapian backend via Search::OpenSearch::Engine::Xapian. You need only configure your Dezi server to use the Xapian backend like this in your dezi-config file: { engine_config => { ‘type’ => ‘Xapian’, ‘index’ => [‘dezi-xapian.index’], }, } See the tutorial for more details.
Dezi version 0.1.2 was released to the CPAN this week. Read the announcement.