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Dec 8, 2004

Official spelling arbitrarily and undemocratically decided. It's Swish-e, not SWISH-E, swish-e, or SWISH-Enhanced.

Dec 3, 2004

May 4, 2004 - Swish-e at USENIX and YAPC::NA

Josh Rabinowitz made a presentation about Swish-e at this summer's USENIX Annual Technical Conference in Boston on July 1st, and also at the Yet Another Perl Conference in Buffalo, New York on June 18th.

From Josh's talk description: "Perl's text handling prowess coupled with Swish-e's special features and perl API provide a substantial and robust system upon which to build searching systems. In this talk we'll cover Swish-e core concepts and we'll also discuss non-trivial real world examples including Sman, a real-world open source project that uses Swish-e and perl to provide an enhanced version of 'man -k' and 'apropos' (see http://joshr.com/src/sman/, it will likely appear on CPAN before long), and 'swished', a mod_perl-based concurrent and persistent swish-e server written by Josh and to be open sourced around the time of conference. Such a server has long been on the Swish-e "to do" list. We'll also compare MySQL4's Full Text Search with Swish-e indices interms of features and performance, with graphs of the relative responsetime for the two indexing mechanisms when tested under various size indices, queries, and numbers of concurrent searches." More info on the talks can be found here: http://joshr.com/html/articles_by_joshr.html.