I’ve been working with a team over the last few months to create a search engine that could sort by date for the local student newspaper. Among the open-source search engines available, Nutch seems to be the easiest to set up. However, I couldn’t find any tutorials on sorting by date so I decided to [...]
I’ve created a new Web site called Full Contact Search using Google App Engine that allows you to search all fields from your Gmail contacts, not just name and e-mail. Check it out at http://fullcontactsearch.appspot.com. When Google upgraded to a new version of its contact manager, it bizarrely took away the ability to search fields like [...]
Ryan Pfister is an IBM business analytics and optimization consultant. An honors Penn State graduate, he has been a reporter, Web editor and columnist at The Daily Collegian, Penn State’s independent student newspaper, and a reporter at the Reading Eagle in Reading, Pa. He has also worked on the information technology staff of major financial companies including Citigroup and Merrill Lynch.
To see what he’s working on right now, check out the Projects page. Also, check out his LinkedIn profile.