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

Written Articles and Blog posts

• 2009-11-03  Fulltext searches with Xapian and PHP

• 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

• 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.