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At some point yesterday this blog passed 200 unique visitors and 400 page views. And today we had our 300th visit. I guess that’s what one would call starting small. On a side note, I’ve recently...
View ArticleSolr: Knowing which fields match
How do you know which fields match your query? For example, if we search our articles index for “malaria,” and we want to know whether we matched the term in title, description, and/or journal_name,...
View ArticleSolr: Showing faceted search stems in human-readable terms
A fascinating question came up on StackOverflow. Suppose you have a Solr core (collection for you ColdFusion peeps) and you want to return the most common terms found in the index. If you facet on a...
View ArticleColdFusion: CFAJAXPROXY and the HEAD tag
A developer had an interesting problem recently which he related on StackOverflow. Normally, if the <cfajaxproxy> tag is used it inserts JavaScript code immediately after the <head> tag....
View Article1000 Page Views
Search Smith hit 1,000 page views this morning. So far the site has had over 500 visitors and 400 unique visitors. Not a big deal for the three-plus months the site has been in operation, but perhaps...
View ArticleSHA-256 Hash in Oracle 10g
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, and I’m not certain when I will get back to posting regularly (sorry!), but I came across an issue yesterday and found a blog post that was too good not to bring to...
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Levenshtein Distance in ColdFusion
It’s been a good long time since I’ve posted here — to be honest, apart from personal and family issues (new baby, moving, etc.) which took away a good chunk of the time that I had formerly set aside...
View ArticleMore Statistics
Odd that my lack of blogging does not seem to have affected traffic on this site! I posted in April of last year that the site had reached 1,000 page views from 400 unique visitors; that was over...
View ArticleOracle: SEO-Friendly URLs II
I posted over a year ago about how one might use regular expressions in Oracle to return SEO-friendly URLs in queries. The query I came up with at the time looked something like this: SELECT id, title,...
View ArticleColdFusion Regular Expressions – REMatch() and REMatchNoCase()
I’m embarrassed that I am only finding out about these two functions six years after they were introduced. I was using reFind() and looping over the len and pos arrays as recently as this month! Tweet
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