[MKSearch-dev] Week 26, 27 & 28 round up

[Phil Shaw]

I have been getting a little behind myself with my updates recently, 
here's a retrospective... Week 26 was school half-term, so I did a 
full week of my Metacentric stuff.

Monday 11 April
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Filed a bug report with test case for GCJ bug 20941, which affects 
the GNU JAXP SAX parser loading. Using a workaround for MKSearch.

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20941

Brought MetaTripleWriter into the main plugin hierarchy by making it 
a subclass of AbstractLocalStorePlugin. Created a first draft 
RdfContentTypeOnly rule to enable JSpider to process RDF and RSS 
content. Excluded the test classes and mock objects from the MKSearch 
JAR distribution target in Ant.


Tuesday 12 April
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Making a test suite for the RdfContentTypeOnly rule brought up some 
tricky issues about how to generate a lightweight SpiderContext to 
pass in to the apply method to test. Started developing a set of mock 
objects to do the job, got bogged down in the breadth of the 
requirement, so stepped back to review the whole JSpider start-up 
process.

http://www.mksearch.mkdoc.org/documentation/jspider/jspider-start-up-
process/


Thursday 14 April
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Researching material for the NCC presentation.


Tuesday 19 April
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Writing presentation for NCC.

https://svn.mkdoc.com/mksearch/doc/presentations/NCC%202005-04-20.ppt
https://svn.mkdoc.com/mksearch/doc/presentations/Human%20reasoning%20m
achines.doc


Wednesday 20 April
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NCC presentation went well, long, long day though.


Thursday 21 April
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Spent some time reviewing work for Adam's 3rd quarter submission. 
Temporarily closed-down the work on RdfContentTypeOnly rule testing 
to work on the store manager transition next week. Everything 
compiles and tests, checked in.




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MKSearch (alpha)

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Free, open source metadata search engine with RDF storage and query.