The Fubra Blog
Furnish.co.uk – how we automatically categorise content
From the outside, furnish.co.uk looks pretty simple; thousands of fabulous interiors products from multiple different stores, all easily searchable and nicely categorised.
But, in the background, there’s some seriously clever stuff going on. We’re automatically scraping stores’ websites (with their permission of course) or scanning their feeds at regular intervals, and then subjecting this data to heavy processing to determine category, style, colour, materials, etc and also doing some very leading edge stuff to make our custom-developed search engine produce super-accurate results. Read the rest of this entry »
Sitemap Validation
Introduction
Hello, my name is Alex Buell, I am profoundly deaf, and work as a Linux
system administrator within the Fubra infosphere. I usually spend most
of my time working on open source projects, giving back to the
community extra value in tools that allow us to do our job.
What are sitemaps?
They provide a way for webmasters (people who run
websites) to give out information about the content on their websites.
Search engines (i.e. www.google.co.uk) look (‘crawling’) through
websites to build up indexes to allow people to search for things that
they are interested in looking for.
Howto: Setup a Mac Mini as a BGP Router
Thinking Differently… An update on our Mac Mini Routers at LINX
We have been quiet for a while on the subject of the mac minis we installed into LINX at Telehouse several months ago…
You may remember the previous article, basically we are using a pair of Mac Mini computers to connect our hosting platform to the LINX Internet exchange in London.
Open Source Windows Applications
Who said there was no such thing as a free lunch? In my experience I have found that the some of best Windows programs are in fact the ones that are completely free, (winscp, putty, firefox etc…) which is why I like this idea so much. The OpenCD is a collection of high quality free and open source software designed to run on Windows. If you don’t feel brave enough to make the switch to Linux for your main system, then this is a good introduction to open source software that will run on your current Windows machine.
Freeware CD burning
Do you find it a pain having to pay for a cd burning program like Nero when you just want to rip or burn an iso file. Well I’ve found the answer… Check out ISO Recorder 2 Beta.