Beagle
Tomboy Hackfest Tonight at the Novell OSTC
Well be hacking it up tonight at 6:00PM MST at the Novell Open Source Technology Center. The rough TODO for the night seems to be Tags, Tasks and maybe even a backend to query Beagle. Anyways, if your in the greater Salt Lake City area, come on down! If your a little further away [...]
Mono 1.2.6 Memory Usage
So, I’ve heard a lot of hype about the upcoming 1.2.6 release of Mono being faster, leaner, and more stable then ever before (due largely to Novell’s acquisition of a QA team dedicated to Mono). Beagle has always gotten flack over memory use, and as a result, we are relentless in our hunt for abused [...]
Google Docs Presentations: A Major Disappointment
Google Docs has revolutionized the office suite, namely the word processor. Collaboration is easy, smooth, integrated, and automatic, whats more all your documents are accessible from anywhere, and all the common features I need are present. While I don’t really use spreadsheets very often, my few simple instances of using Google Doc’s for spreadsheets were [...]
Google: How do you do it?
So its not a big surprise that an oft-requested feature for Beagle is the ability to index a users Gmail messages (like Google Desktop Search). Today we (the Beagle developers) started to investigate just how this is done. While POP3 (and now IMAP) are available, downloading all of a users mail, indexing it, and then [...]
Waking Up In the Middle of the Night
It happens.. even running on so little sleep, I still find myself waking. Fortunately, this time I awoke with an awesome realization. I’ve been pounding my brain against the wall for a week now on how to further refine/increase the accuracy of my original relation-based ranking system. My initial results had been less than stellar [...]
Building More Relationships in Beagle
Today I checked in a few fun changes to Beagle today focused on the idea of emphasizing relationships between entities. It doesn’t sound like a whole lot of fun, but its kinda nifty. New Query Context Options Find Documents by same author. Find E-mails from same contact. Find Pages from same site. In addition (building [...]
Relationships in the Desktop – Relational Desktop Search and Beagle
I’ve been working on and off on a writeup concerning the use of Beagle to build an intelligent ‘rank’ for desktop entities. Or, in short, a Ranking system (not unlike Page Rank or the like) to organize desktop search results by far more than just keyword/date. I know the writing sucks, and its not 100% [...]
Updated Beagle Packages for Gutsy Available
Beagle support in Ubuntu has been less than stellar up until this point (across all releases), and unfortunately, the best that we can really hope for in the immediate future is acceptable. This is mostly because only a few of Beagle’s developers are running Ubuntu, and accurately reproducing common errors is difficult. To top this [...]
Beagle Ubuntu Package Update
Technorati Tags: beagle, gnome, mono, ubuntu, gutsy, deb, bzr, bazaar, launchpad With everything that has been swarming all over my plate lately, I haven’t had a chance to really keep on top of the Beagle packages in Ubuntu, and as a result, they are currently pretty crappy. I have a branch (meant to be feisty-updates, [...]
Beagle Search Support in GtkFileChooser!
Finally! Perhaps one of the last major features that Beagle needs to match Spotlight and Windows Live Search. Integration into every file choice made in the Gnome environment has long been a dream of mine, and a little less than a year ago, this bug was filed with hopes of making that dream a reality. [...]