Ashutosh Nilkanth's Blog

One of the seven wonders of the world – the Taj Mahal (also see TajHub.com), turns 350 years old. Here’s to one of the greatest monuments of all times – a tribute to beauty!

PHP News Update: PHP 5.01 was released a few days back; Although PHP5 has in-built support for SOAP but NuSOAP still looks stronger; SQLiteManager is to SQLite as phpMyAdmin is to MySQL; a slide tutorial on OO Programming in PHP.

Clues may point to Google browser – … rumors are that the search company plans to introduce a Google-branded Web browser down the road. Among the clues are a domain-name registration, a patent application and several recent hires. … A Web browser that would meld Google search, Gmail free e-mail, Google’s Blogger Web publishing software and pop-up blocking technology could be a winner for the company … [via CNET News.com]

pinvoke.net, the interop wiki!, attempts to address the difficulty of calling Win32 or other unmanaged APIs in managed code (languages such as C# and VB .NET).

I was looking at Lucene .NET for a full-text search engine implementation but I was surprised to find out that the Lucene.NET application library is not open source anymore. It has been relaunched as a commercial product called SearchBlackBox. Lucene .NET is the core search technology behind the popular Lookout plugin for Outlook (later bought by Microsoft). Too bad that such a cool technology is not open source anymore. Atleast the developers could have left the last stable release of Lucene .NET under a public license. I’m not sure if there’s any other open source search library for .NET in the market.

SearchBlackBox for .NET, is the full-text search engine library for .NET compatible with Lucene.Net and Jakarta Lucene 1.4-final. SearchBlackBox allows you to add full-text searching capabilities to all kind of applications from web site search to enterprise search applications. SearchBlackBox is compatible with .NET 1.x, Mono and Jakarta Lucene.