Monthly Archives: February 2010

Roger Ebert

Ok, Ebert. I enjoy a lot of Roger Ebert’s writing. I don’t always agree with his take on film, and don’t much care for his politics, but I think he’s a pretty good writer. And far be it from me … Continue reading

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Six Word Stories: Doors

Drowsy tigers lolled behind both doors.

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Full Text Search (Demo)

I’ve been talking about Full-Text Search (FTS) for a while; today I just want to present a working demo. Here is a complete Xcode project that will build a simple “Notes” style app with integrated FTS. Performance is pretty acceptable; … Continue reading

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Valentine

Trivia: Almost nothing is known of the St. Valentine commemorated on 14 February. Cesare Borgia was also known as Duke Valentine.

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Six Word Stories: Burglar

Cats regarded the burglar with disinterest.

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Sliding Keyboards

Today I’m going to present a workaround for a slightly obscure but still annoying problem on the iPhone. Let me begin by quoting myself: If you create a view controller, put a UITextView inside a table cell in that controller’s … Continue reading

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Full Text Search (Part 7)

A word about the BEGINSWITH operator of NSPredicate: “Caution”! I was using this operator to drive iterative prompting while developing my Full-Text Search (FTS) demo, and found its performance unsatisfactory.

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Six Word Stories: Telekinesis

“Just remember: There is no spork.” Editorial Note: I’m moving Book Club to Wednesdays. Sorry for the late notice.

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Full Text Search (Part 6)

Heretofore, I’ve been working with an “OR” implementation of Full-Text Search (FTS). This sort of implementation takes one or more keywords, and returns all the objects which match one or more of them. I’d been avoiding an “AND” implementation (which … Continue reading

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Full Text Search (Part 5)

Today I’m going to post minor revisions to some earlier Full-Text Search (FTS) code. These changes address index construction.

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