September 2009
4 posts
Capistrano deploying full text search on Rails...
acts_as_xapian is a rails plugin for Xapian, a full text search engine.
acts_as_xapian installs the search engine database inside the plugin directory, under xapiandbs. If you use Capistrano as a deployment tool and since the entire codebase is rewritten (including the plugin directory), you will have to rebuild the entire index every time you do a deployment.
What you need to do is to locate...
Please make the web faster
Let’s make the web faster, says Google. Best practices for speeding up your website, says Yahoo.
Search engines want to crawl the web faster, and website owners want their users to have a good navigation experience which includes fast page loading.
Both Google and Yahoo say approximately the same regarding techniques for optimizing page load and rendering speed. I am not going to go...
Structural SEO
SEO, SEO, it’s all so 2005… but yet, if you check the average website, the SEO concerns lack on the implementation side.
Everyone in the Marketing department is concerned about metadata, keyword density, and all the other recommended metrics to quantify you content SEO, but, for the most part, their website implementation lacks at least one part of something that I call Structural...
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Bio
Pedro Teixeira is a former Enterprise Java Beans technical project manager for Clarity Europe (BES Tech Ventures).
On 2004 he founded a services company ( http://berro.pt ), focused on the tourism industry throughout 2005-2008, briefly worked for http://www.expedita.com, shifted to product development on 2007, rebuilt http://netmadeira.com on 2009 for ZON Madeira and currently working for...