Neofreko » tips http://blog.neofreko.com Nothing but neofreko Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:51:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 One Post Per Day: When The Going Gets Tough http://blog.neofreko.com/index.php/2008/08/21/one-post-per-day-when-the-going-gets-tough/ http://blog.neofreko.com/index.php/2008/08/21/one-post-per-day-when-the-going-gets-tough/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:30:48 +0000 Akhmad Fathonih http://blog.neofreko.com/?p=816 Continue reading →]]> In case you, my loyal reader, does get why there’s always one post on each day but Sunday. I’ve been participating in MangoAddict’s campaign/program. One Post Per Day is how we call it. So far, there are only three blogger participating in this campaign. So far, it has been a long  19 days. And I am about to run out of materials. I’ve been writing about music , and then movies. But all didn’t last long. Actually I have several movies I can write about but the mood is just too low. This is the point when I remember “use scheduled post whenever you can”, and jots down any new ideas you found along.

So, how am I gonna pull this out? The trick is to be honest. To be honest that I’m running out of materials. To be honest that I cannot write what I want to write at the moment because I have to spare it for another project. being honest is one of the trick you can use to be interesting. It is a trick suggested by copyblogger.com.

There are many other tricks actually. Some of them, similar to being honest is “let out your inner dork”. Are you into anime? Tell us your favorite Gundam. Tell them being a narutard is worth the humiliation. Your inner dork is your sharpest skill so there won’t be much showstopper to write a related post.

Another easy way is “make people laugh”. I’m sure you have lots of funny youtube link or xkcd hall of fame or favorites garfield strip. Jots down your ten best list and make your reader giggles!

There are more you can read in copyblogger site. I think they haven’t include “rewrite other post” within the list ;)

PS:

I remember writing the first two paragraf of this post, but not the last two. Then I gradually remember some part of the post, and the title. Was I in a trance when writing this post? Fcuk. Scarrrrrrrry.

]]> http://blog.neofreko.com/index.php/2008/08/21/one-post-per-day-when-the-going-gets-tough/feed/ 2 Four Tips on Designing SOLR Schema http://blog.neofreko.com/index.php/2008/08/20/tips-on-designing-solr-schema/ http://blog.neofreko.com/index.php/2008/08/20/tips-on-designing-solr-schema/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:51:56 +0000 Akhmad Fathonih http://blog.neofreko.com/?p=815 Continue reading →]]>

However similar SOLR to a database, designing schema for each of them has a distinct difference.

  • SOLR is optimized to search purpose, on the other hand, database was commonly design to store (related) data
  • SOLR has a custom behaviour when storing and querying data, ie: indexing behaviour and query behaviour.

So how is it to design schema in SOLR?

  1. Cover all basic data. Make sure to index everything you need to search onto. Indexing more data won’t hurt, storage is cheap.
  2. Cover common search behaviour. Do you search over several fields? Dismax query type sometime does fit your need as it is searching word by word. Store in one field or multifield? Or both? SOLR has copyField feature.You can use it for store concatenated values.
  3. Work on the relevancy and scoring. Setup proper score boosting to your search query. You may found a necessity to ignore score or to use FunctionQuery to tweak scoring or filling a “formula” field, ie: linear, product, sum, etc.
  4. Practise make perfect. Gather feedback from your users, check what search is work and what is not.

FAQ (to be answered soon):

  • Why SOLR, is database not enough?
  • Would it be fair to compare database to Lucene?

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