About Abbas Ali

Abbas Ali is a Mechanical Engineer by education. He turned to programming and took it as a profession just after finishing his studies. He is fascinated equally by both machines and computers. He leads the team of dynamic programmers at SANIsoft and works as a Technology Manager. He is also an active developer on the Coppermine Picture Gallery team.
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[How To] Index merging in Sphinx

TweetIn an earlier post, Live index updates in Sphinx, we saw how to use main+delta indexing scheme for almost realtime index updates. In that we created two indexes as follows: main : Which is the archive of all the documents delta : Which holds only the newer documents One minor drawback in the above scheme [...]

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[CakePHP] Sending emails more robustly

TweetSending emails in CakePHP using the Email component is a straight forward job. You will find ample documentation about it in the cakephp cookbook. It is a simple and easy to use component. However, one common mistake most of us make is writing the same code to configure the email component at numerous places throughout [...]

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Geo-distance search in Sphinx

TweetA common scenario in many search applications is geo-distance based searches. Geo-distance search means finding geographic locations nearby to the specified point on earth. Geo distance search is a very common feature in applications involving set of entities each having a specific geographic coordinate associated with it. Some examples are real estate portals, property listings, [...]

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Announcing the release of Sphinx Search book

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