Well it has been a while since I have updated this blog, and I just got a few seconds free so I thought I would post an update.
It is good to see Michael Rys posting up here as well -- if you think he is prolific on the blog, imagine working with him ;-)
So I got back from a nice restful vacation to Mexico where I did very little at all. A nice change of pace. A short while ago I finished writing a white paper on Yukon Full-Text Search (per my last post, “Yukon Full-Text Secrets Revealed”) -- it should be up on the web hopefully before the new year but you wouldn't believe how much goes into the process.
Today it is very windy in the Seattle area -- I wouldn't be surprised if the power goes out here on the Microsoft campus... it seems like it has been a while since that has happened. I like these windy days, though... quite relaxing -- though I hear most of the surrounding areas are currently without power.
Anyway, if I can figure out a good way to do it, I've got some nice C# code that can be used to test stemmers and wordbreakers for Full-Text Search. There are many folks out there who really would like a good way to understand what is really going on during Full-Text index/query when their data is being tokenized / stemmed. Unfortunately when I posted the stemming bit to the microsoft.public.sqlserver.fulltext newsgroup, the formatting got eaten for lunch. If I get a few good seconds I'll do two installments which are also kind of a nice tutorial on COM interop with C# as well as implementing a callback between unmanaged and managed code. Stay tuned.