Articles about Xapian

This page provides a lists of articles or blog entries which have been written about Xapian, and slides or videos or presentations about Xapian. Entries should be largely about Xapian - 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.

Blogs dedicated to Xapian

• ​Richard Boulton's blog about Xapian
• ​The "xapian" category of Olly Betts' blog

Written Articles and Blog posts

• 2011-04-11 ​Xapian omega: simple URLs for users (Apache)
• 2010-10-26 ​Read and index documents with Xapian and Omega
• 2010-08-01 ​Create a lightweight intranet search engine with Xapian on FreeBSD
• 2010-05-17 ​fuss-launcher: an application launcher built on apt-xapian-index
• 2010-05-12 ​Add Search to Ruby on Rails Projects with acts_as_xapian
• 2010-04-02 ​xapian: the alternative to the ubiquitous “search with google”
• 2010-01-31 ​Xapian Fu; Full Text Indexing in Ruby
• 2009-11-18 ​Doing 'Notmuch' to fix Email - An email system for Linux based on Xapian
• 2009-11-17 ​notmuch - An article by Keith Packard introducing a new email reading system called notmuch
• 2009-11-16 ​Tutorial on using Xapian with the Pylons web framework
• 2009-11-03 ​Fulltext searches with Xapian and PHP
• 2009-10-20 ​Simple Search for Django using Haystack and Xapian
• 2009-06-23 ​Building xapian-bindings-php under Fedora Core 10
• 2009-04-02 ​An explanation of the proper use of terms, values and document data
• 2009-03-07 ​Search panel at DrupalCon DC: comparing ApacheSolr, Search Lucene API, Xapian and Sphinx
• 2009-03-04 ​Recherche "Full text" avec xapian (in French) - Installing and getting started with Xapian and acts_as_xapian.
• 2008-10-03 ​Adding search to your Web site with Xapian and Omega
• 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.
• 2008-07-23 ​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.
• 2008-07-17 ​acts_as_xapian and mysociety.org
• 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
• 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.
• 2007-08-14 ​Building a (fast) Wikipedia offline reader - search powered by Xapian
• 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.
• 2007-04-03 ​Django and MYSQL Full Text Database Search using Xapian
• 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
• 2006-06-01 ​Indexing and Searching the Wikit with Xapian - Two scripts providing a simple search facility for the Tcl wiki
• 2006-04-04 ​Xapian PHP5 Wrapper (this has now been incorporated into the Xapian distribution)

Presentations

• 2010-02-26 ​In Search Of... integrating site search - ​Ian Barber's talk at ​PHP UK 2010.
• 2009-11-10 ​How search.gmane.org works - Olly Betts' presentation to Wellington Perl Mongers.
• 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.