This first year of parenting started roughly and going into year two still has its challenges but the ride has become enjoyable.

I wrote about how to write filter queries using pyes. Unfortunately after using ElasticSearch in the Add-ons Builder, I realized that our code would become unwieldy and hard to read if we kept using straight up pyes.

What do I think about 2 of the YouTube founders buying Delicious?

I’ve been having a tough time navigating the Elastic Search docs, but some sleuthing in the test suite for pyes has proved helpful.

One problem we find with slug generators, is they do an awful job with unicode. For a string like this: Bän...g (bang) you get something like bng---g--bang- or at best bang-bang. But it’s 2011, urls can have unicode… here’s what we really want: bäng-bang.

It’s hard to believe that Sidd’s spent more time out of the womb than in. We’ve also lived in our home longer with the baby than without. Time is clearly flying.

When indexing a lot of data, you can save time by bulk loading data.

I’m slowly trying to familiarize myself with ElasticSearch and the pyes python interface. ElasticSearch uses a lot of plugins, and while the plugin system is easy to use, it’s not obvious where to find the plugins.