My presentation from XTech this year.

1. Searching the Now Josh Lucas EarthLink XTech 2007

2. Searching the Past

3. The Black Box

4. Under the Influence of Crawlers

5. Bigger is Better

6. The Rise of One Box

7. More, More, More

8. Faster, Faster, Faster

9. The Challenge

10. Who Am I ?

11. Where Am I?

12. What Time Is It ?

13. Let’s Build Something

14. How about an XTech Event search engine?

15. create_table :events do |t| t.column :location, :string t.column :date_start, :datetime t.column :date_end, :datetime t.column :summary, :string t.column :description, :string t.column :url, :string t.column :lat, :float t.column :lng, :float end

17. <div class=&quot;en_session_title summary&quot; > <a href=&quot;http://2007.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/161&quot; class=&quot; url uid&quot;>Searching the Now</a> </div> <div class=&quot;en_session_roominfo&quot;> <span class=&quot;en_session_topics&quot;> <a href=&quot;http://2007.xtech.org/public/schedule/topic/1&quot;> Applications</a> </span> <span class=&quot;en_session_room location &quot;> Louvre-Palais Royal</span> <span class=&quot;uf_timing&quot;> <abbr class=&quot; dtstart dtstamp&quot; title=&quot;20070518T0900&quot;></abbr> <abbr class=&quot; dtend &quot; title=&quot;20070518T0945&quot;> </abbr> </span> </div>

18. require 'mofo' def index lat = 48.8583 lng = 2.2945 url = params[:url] cal = hCalendar.find url cal.each do |c| e = Event.new(:summary => c.summary, :url => c.url, :lat => lat, :lng => lng, :date_end => c.dtend, :date_start => c.dtstart, :location => c.location, :description => c.description).save end @num = cal.size end

20. class Event < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_ferret :fields => [ :summary , :description ] end results = Event.find_by_contents(q)

23. The Future

24. Thanks! Josh Lucas [email_address]