On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 05:15 PM, James Bates wrote:
Have loads of ideas, yes. Have been reading up on some database theory from... I assume you've been finding ways to improve things while you're at it.
textbooks too.
I'm with you, been reading a lot too. It's nice to have access to a full research library now. Any books you've found particularly good?
Will write my ideas for improvement in a small list shortly. I'm still
wading through the Indexer code,
when that's done I'll have been through more or loss all of Xindice's source
code.
OK, good. Looking forward to your ideas. I'll try to publish my own too, but it may be a while. There's some things I'm experimenting with that I want to better understand before deciding if I like the ideas or not. As an FYI, I'm looking at ways to do transactions, versioning (related to transactions), meta-data, full text indexing, better general indexing and large document support among other things. I also see some things we can probably do in the short term that might improve performance a little.
Kimbro Staken
etc... This is code which has not really been touched since you and Tom left
Yeah, I noticed that from reviewing the commit logs.
.
As I'm backtracking source code, and using hex editors to emperically
determine things, maybe I'm missing original design or algorithmic
intentions
in some places. Can you take a look at the document and comment on it?
Tell
me what I'm missing? Maybe even contribute some parts that I haven't
written
yet?
Well, if you want real authority Tom would need to review it. However,
I just read through it and it looks really good to me. I'm digging into
this code too so I'll try to help with the guide as much as I can going
forward.
What's happening with Tom? I see mail now and then, but are you (Tom) still
available for consulation/help?
Thanks for stepping up and doing this, we desperately needed it.
It's "instructive" to say the least ;)
James
Java and XML Software, Consulting and Writing http://www.xmldatabases.org/
Apache Xindice native XML database http://xml.apache.org/xindice
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