Nobody Listens Anyway

I have read a lot about Lucene over the years and finally managed to find an excuse to play with it. I used it to add a general search to ThePlanCollection.com. Here’s a detailed writeup including the code I used to implement search using Lucene on ASP.Net.
Enjoy.

All of my ASP.Net work these days is for ThePlanCollection.com so I have started publishing my problems and hopefully some solutions there. My most recent problem was the “hexadecimal value 0×1A, is an invalid character” exception when writing out xml. Click the link to get the code to fix the problem.

I updated ThePlanCollection.com last night. I must admit that updating when you are tired is not always the best idea, but I figure everyone else is probably asleep so there isn’t really a better time. We don’t really have a gazillion house plans, but sometime it feels like it and being able to [...]