There is nothing really new and that I didn't know already with the tools I am writing about but when I downloaded them I started using them they just blew my mind.
One is SSHFS which is base on FUSE. I can't use NFS from my Virtual box machine but I can SSH into some Unix servers. With SSHFS I can make any of those remote file systems feel local for ANY program (not just KDE tools or Gnome ones etc.). That's not really incredible or new. Actually the only reason I had not done it was that I thought it was no big deal (Konsole and ssh provide most of the convenience already, don't they?).
The other thing I tried was tsearch2 (Postgresql's full text search) in my little Django app. I found a snippet that wraps tsearch2 in a Django very nicely.
I just had to make my model inherit from SearchableModel, add a SearchManager in the definition, alter the table to add a search_index column of type tsvector. Then I simply changed a few lines in my current search view and form to combine the new search with the full text search.
Again, this is nothing incredibly new and actually a feature I had planned on implementing for a while. But now it's here, so easily, it feels like a tremendous change.
Oh well, maybe I am a bit to enthusiastic and I had too much coffee, but color me impressed.
Maybe I am in the mood to be happy
Friday, August 7, 2009
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