In an earlier post I have explained the need for a Facebook streaming app that has to be enhanced with some features in order to create viral word of mouth effects. Together with Yann Leretaille and Robert Naumann we programmed the facebook API and developed such an app for my band In legend. Today ( …
Tag: MySql
Time lines and news streams: Neo4j is 377 times faster than MySQL
Over the last weeks I did some more work on neo4j. And I am ready to present some more results on the speed (In my use case neo4j outperformed MySQL by a factor of 377 ! That is more than two magnitudes). As known one part of my PhD thesis is to create a social newsstream …
Neo4j Graph Database vs MySQL
For my social news stream application I am heavily thinking about the right software to support my backend. After I designed a database model in MySQL I talked back to Jonas and he suggested to search for a better suiting technology. A little bit of research brought me to a Graph database called Neo4j. After …
how to move wordpress directory: Problems with upload_path wp-content/uploads
Recently I was forced to move a wordpress site to a different webserver. By moving to a new server due to different hosting policies I also had to change the physical directory in which the wordpress files were stored. Before it was something like /var/www/wordpress afterwards it became /home/domainname/www/ . So after moving the data …
How to download Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an amazing data set to do all different kinds of research which will go far beyond text mining. The best thing about Wikipedia is that it is licensed under creative common license. So you are allowed to download Wikipedia and use it in any way you want. The articles have almost no spelling …