Articles about Xapian
This page provides a lists of articles or blog entries which have been written about Xapian. Articles added to this page should be about Xapian in large part - don't add an article simply because it mentions Xapian once, in a passing reference. If there is a choice of language including English, please link to the English version of an article first. Also, giving a brief summary of what the article covers would be helpful. Most recent entries are at the top of each section.
Blog entries
- 2008-09-25 Write Your Own Application Launcher - Using Xapian to do spell checking, tag clouds, completion, and searching for an application launcher.
- 2008-09-24 Index your DataMapper Models with Xapian - dm-xapian is a Merb plugin to index your Ruby on Rails DataMapper models with Xapian.
- 2008-08-26 Acts As Xapian - It Just Works - Positive first experiences with acts_as_xapian.
- 2008-07-15 Mulling Over Our Ruby On Rails Full Text Search Options - Taking a look at the different options for full-text search with Ruby on Rails.
- 2008-05-08 ore.xapian - indexing and searching in zope3
- 2008-07-17 - acts_as_xapian and mysociety.org
- 2007-10-xx Introducing apt-xapian-index - Enrico Zini has written a series of nine articles about using Xapian to search for Debian packages.
- 2007-08-25 Djapian: solução de search engine para seu projeto (Portuguese - English translation from Google) - about the Djapian Django/Python integration.
- 2007-06-19 Using tags to enhance a keyword search - using Xapian's relevance feedback features to improve searches in a tagged database.
- 2007-06-12 Indexation Service with Xapian - a description of a simple indexing service for Xapian.
- 2007-06-07 Indexation facile et rapide avec Xapian (French) - a quick overview of how to use the Python bindings to do some indexing.
- 2007-02-04 Pumping Up Your Applications with Xapian Full-Text Search - using Xapian from Python with TurboGears and SQLAlchemy.
- 2007 Xapian in Python- indexing and search in Xapian with reference to Django
- 2006-04-04 Xapian PHP5 Wrapper (this has now been incorporated into the Xapian distribution)
Articles
- 2008-07-23 Simple Ruby On Rails Full Text Search Using Xapian - A basic tutorial on using acts_as_xapian with Ruby On Rails.
- 2008-07-19 Tuning Search in Drupal 5 - Benchmarks comparing Drupal's core search with Xapian.
- 2007-08-14 Building a (fast) Wikipedia offline reader - search powered by Xapian
- 2006-06-01 Indexing and Searching the Wikit with Xapian - Two scripts providing a simple search facility for the Tcl wiki
Presentations
- 2008-07-06 Full Text Delicious Index in 100 lines of code - David Novakovic's presentation to BarCamp Gold Coast.
- 2008-06-xx Xapian & Search Integration - Sidnei da Silva's talk at NOLA Symposium 08
- 2006-11-21 Open Source IR with Xapian - Richard Boulton's presentation to the British Computer Society.
- 2006-09-02 Finding the Bard - Python, Xapian and Shakespeare - James Aylett's presentation to BarCamp London.
