Sessions at Cambridge Geek Night 12 about Xapian and Search

Monday 15th August 2011

• Lightning talk: geoencoding

  by Richard Boulton

  A description of a scheme being developed for Xapian to store geolocation coordinates compactly, but such that the coordinates can be truncated to produce reduced accuracy versions, while still being very quick to encode and decode.

  • Geo
  • Search
  • Xapian

  At 9:15pm to 9:20pm, Monday 15th August

• Lightning talk: RestPose

  by Richard Boulton

  Introduction to the (existence of) the RestPose search server - based on Xapian, written in C++, providing a JSON/HTTP "restful" API.

  • REST
  • Search
  • Xapian

  At 9:20pm to 9:25pm, Monday 15th August