I recently wrote an article on geo-spatial search with RavenDB for "The Developer", a Norwegian magazine for developers. Seeing how questions on this topic keep coming in, I thought it would be a good idea to post it here as a reference for anyone interested. So, there you go. Happy searching.

I recently signed a contract with Manning for writing a "RavenDB in Action" book. Writing this book comes naturally after delivering many RavenDB workshops, talks, training sessions and consultancy gigs. The structure of the book and the actual content in it are based on actual experience of explain...

When writing software, there is always this tension between writing good software fast and having good code structure, which usually results in a nice API. These two are completely orthogonal - you can definitely end up having one without the other, and it is really hard and time consuming to have b...

I've been working as a core developer for RavenDB for quite a while, writing core features, providing support to users and customers, and co-authored and delivered the official 2-day RavenDB Workshop. Starting October (today...) I'm offering on-site and remote RavenDB consultancy services, as an ind...

For quite a while RavenDB had geo-spatial search capabilities, but ever since it was introduced it was limited to finding documents with latitude and longitude within a radius from a given point. In the past few weeks I was working on revamping the Lucene.Net spatial module, and earlier this week th...

After working for a while as a core developer for RavenDB, it is time for me to move on. Starting September, I will no longer be with Hibernating Rhinos working, supporting and training on RavenDB as my day job.

I love RavenDB. It is a great product, and I'm sure it will get very far. The design dec...

Apparently do not work well together... Consider the following: [code lang="csharp"] public class Foo { public int AddsNumbers(int x, int y) { return x + y; } } public class FooTest { public static IEnumerable<object[]> Expectations { get { yield return new object[] { 1, 2, 3 }; } } [Theory] [...

A couple of months ago I blogged about Orev - OpenRelevance viewer. The purpose of Orev, in short, is to create materials and a sandbox that allow to measure relevance between different full-text search methods. In Orev we have Corpora, Topics and Judgments. A user is shown a Topic (= a few sentence...

About 2 years ago I was building a .NET desktop application, and needed an easy way to allow it to auto-update itself. I looked for libraries that do that, and all I could see was either complicated, commercial, or geared towards a very particular (usually common) use case. I didn't want anything of...

I mean, this one is trivial: I'd rather have it show me search results than try to give me the answer I was looking for, unless it is very good at it. Like, Wolfram-Alpha good.