Blogs

Web Search, Text Mining, and Lucene

Giving a little talk for Ankur Teredesai's Web Search class at UW Tacoma today on leveraging Lucene for web search and text mining.

As usually the slides are just a jumping off point for discussion, but for reference, I've attached them below.

the new look for Hazel Consulting

Many thanks to Sarah Johnson for the great new look.

Like many programmers my aesthetic sense is, shall we say, a bit off. Sarah did a great job, although she may be a little disappointed that i rolled the theme live before I finished it.

But it looks so much better than the last one http://old.hazelconsulting.com

Linux Fest Northwest Talk -- Drupal GOTCHA'S -Hardening and Optimizing your Drupal site

Drupal GOTCHA'S - Hardening and Optimizing your Drupal site. With a strong community and robust core, Drupal, an open source content management platform, is a solid foundation on which to build your website, whether it be community or corporate. The community has contributed almost 3500 (3472), this can be a bit overwhelming for someone trying to put up a Drupal site that is fast and secure. This talk will cover some of the easiest, and most important things you can do to improve the performance and security of your site.

Port your Views to Modules, speed up your site and save your code

There are two key benefits derived from a Views to Module port:

  1. speeding up your site
  2. version control on your code

One of the things you can do to improve performance on your Drupal site is to port all your views to modules, then turn off the Views UI.