I learned (in person) that I took second place in the SixApart plugin contest last night. I'm floored and honored. Congratulations to my fellow developers who placed.
I only released one of my entries (Tiny Orwell) the other day. That wasn't the winning entry though. The winning entry had two parts. The most relevant to all is Plus 1.0. Plus is a advanced MT entry search engine built on Plucene which allows for a lot more sophisticated and faster searching of content. (Plus is derived from PLUcene Simple a module I relied on to rapidly tap into Plucenes vast functionality.) MT has a built in search, but it only covers the basics and has an akward template and configuration process. Another feature of Plus comes from the second part of my entry that my fellow plugin developers may be interesting. Its called XSearch (eXtensible Search) and its a framework for creating pluggable search facilties in MT. (Plus is just an implementation of one of these search functions.). The built-in search is hardwired
and is not extensible which makes its functionality and tags useless to developers like myself. Like so many good works of software, XSearch was scratching my own itch as a MT developer for hire who found myself in situations were I need more control over how the search behaves and needed to seamless integrate with a sites look and feel.
Want to get your hands on it? Wondering were the link is to it? To avoid any confusion I'm going to hold off releasing it and wait for it to come out in Plugin Pack Six Apart is going to be releasing. Besides, having such an unmovable deadline my documentation needs work. I wouldn't want to inflict such frustration on the world. If you really need it now contact me and I'll see what I can do.
<p>I learned (in person) that I took second place in the SixApart plugin contest last night. I'm floored and honored. <a href="http://www.sixapart.com/log/2004/07/plug_in_to_mova.shtml#more">Congratulations to my fellow developers who placed</a>.</p>
<p>I only <a href="/archives/000357.html">released one of my entries (Tiny Orwell)</a> the other day. That wasn't the winning entry though. The winning entry had two parts. The most relevant to all is Plus 1.0. Plus is a advanced MT entry search engine built on <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Plucene/">Plucene</a> which allows for a lot more sophisticated and faster searching of content. (Plus is derived from <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/PluceneSimple/">PLUcene Simple</a> a module I relied on to rapidly tap into Plucenes vast functionality.) MT has a built in search, but it only covers the basics and has an akward template and configuration process. Another feature of Plus comes from the second part of my entry that my fellow plugin developers may be interesting. Its called XSearch (eXtensible Search) and its a framework for creating pluggable search facilties in MT. (Plus is just an implementation of one of these search functions.). The built-in search is <q>hardwired</q> and is not extensible which makes its functionality and tags useless to developers like myself. Like so many good works of software, XSearch was scratching my own itch as a <a href="http://www.appnel.com/">MT developer for hire</a> who found myself in situations were I need more control over how the search behaves and needed to seamless integrate with a sites look and feel.</p>
<p>Want to get your hands on it? Wondering were the link is to it? To avoid any confusion I'm going to hold off releasing it and wait for it to come out in Plugin Pack Six Apart is going to be releasing. Besides, having such an unmovable deadline my documentation needs work. I wouldn't want to inflict such frustration on the world. If you really need it now contact me and I'll see what I can do.</p>
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