July 15: Search using Sphinx and Thinking Sphinx, lessons learned by Christophe Lucas

Gray Herter — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:37:00 -0400

Title: Search using Sphinx and Thinking Sphinx, Lessons Learned

Food: Pizza and sodas will be provided.

Time: Weds July 15, 6:30 PM - 9 PM.

Note: Prior to the main talk, Charles Calvert will give a brief overview of the Independent Computer Consultants Association and its usefulness as a resource for both consultants and those hiring consultants.

Description: We all experienced how easy it is to get started with Sphinx and Thinking Sphinx but it becomes complex very quickly with sophisticated data models. We will talk about the folowing topics:

Indexing through has_many relationships using multi-value attributes and the limitations of that solution.

The goal of this presentation and discussion is to give and illustrate simple code solutions to solve common search problems using Sphinx and Thinking Sphinx.

Speaker: Christophe Lucas is currently the lead software engineer at VisualCV, Inc. Prior to VisualCV, he worked at Revolution Health Group, LLC, designing and developing web applications using the Ruby on Rails framework. He also developed desktop applications using Java at the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a guest researcher and at Meta Integration Technology. He is a firm believer in the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and eXtreme Programming best practices.

Location:

FGM HQ,
12021 Sunset Hills Rd, Suite 400
Reston, VA 20190
Call 703 727-1307 (Gray) to get in.

NovaRUG: July 15: Search using Sphinx and Thinking Sphinx, lessons learned by Christophe Lucas

July 15: Search using Sphinx and Thinking Sphinx, lessons learned by Christophe Lucas