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Plucene

A Perl port of Lucene

Lucene as a web service

Brian Cassidy has Perl bindings for it.

Xapian

might be good, but very little support

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When writing Seamstress pages, componentize your tree transforms

Working with our Mason codebase today showed me something that would have been a lot harder in Seamstress. Basically, I was told to add a vonage advertisement in another table cell everywhere that we displayed a vbase_banner.

Up to this point, all pages using the vbase_banner looked something like this:

<& 'comp/related_topics_lander_2', aconf => $aconf, query => $query &> <& 'comp/vbase_banner', aconf => $aconf, query => $query, align => 'left' &> % if ($query->{'brand'} eq 'tbar') { <& 'comp/tbar_foot', aconf => $aconf, query => $query &> % } else { <& 'comp/quickfoot', aconf => $aconf, query => $query, align => 'center' &> % } <& 'comp/footer', aconf => $aconf, query => $query &>

So all I had to do was toss a bit of logic in vbase_banner for the vonage_ad and I was done:

<tr> <td align='<% $align %>'><iframe width=468 height=60 noresize scrolling=no \frameborder=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0 src='http://t.trafficmp.com/b.t/<% $\id %>/<% $rn %>/'></iframe> </td> <td> % if ($query->{pagetype} ne &#8216;KEY&#8217;) { <& vonage_ad &> % } </td> </tr>

With Seamstress, one could componentize a page by creating subroutines for processing each part, but one does not have to. This is a downfall in Seamstress in a sense. But nevertheless, with Params::Validate and HTML::Tree, one can still do the trick, but one must be disciplined about placing each tree transformation into a separate subroutine instead of having a subroutine with a series of

The end result of disciplined Seamstress usage is that you can refine subroutines and make wholesale changes across several webpages if they all point to the same place

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CatalystAdvent example converted from tt to Seamstress

You can view the source here and download via

svn co http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/Catalyst/trunk/examples/CatalystAdvent-Seamstress

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Charting Modules

1. Chart by the Chart Group. seems like a focused set of people :)

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Woven with HTML::Seamstress

• http://hp.qsrch.com/?prt=nn26&s=love
• http://hp.qsrch.com/?prt=nn26&s=lkajdfjak;lsdf
• http://hp.qsrch.com/?prt=sb01&s=love
• http://hp.qsrch.com/?prt=sb01&s=lkajdfjak;lsdf

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My first Seamstress user!

I was elated to have a user of my module HTML::Seamstress. here is the bug he filed against Seamstress - and complete with a patch!

I am glad to have co-developer.

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