Got Data? Need Search? Use Sphinx
So you’ve built your web application, and people are putting data in it, but how do they get that data back out? Often, they find data by searching. MySQL provides a searchable full-text index, but it...
View ArticleDXR Digests the Firefox Codebase
How do you reason about a codebase the size of Firefox’s? How do you figure out who calls the function you’re messing with, without losing your context in an endless stream of false-positive-infested...
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Tracking Deploys in Git Log
Knowing what is going on with git and many environments can be hard. In particular, it can be hard to easily know where the server environments are on the git history, and how the rest of the world...
View ArticleDXR gets more correct, less case-sensitive
DXR, Mozilla’s evolving codebase search engine, has been taking patches at a furious rate these last two months. A great deal of work has gone into a UI refit, still in progress, which will improve...
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DXR Gets A Huge UI Refresh
After months of hard work by talented Mozillians, both paid and volunteer, DXR’s UI overhaul branch has hit production! With more efficient workflows, support for multiple trees, and improvements in...
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