Flavio Castelli

As I said in this previous post, Strigi’s Xesam support was half-done since XesamUserSearchLanguage wasn’t yet handled. Well, this is no longer true…
In these weeks I’ve been working on XesamUserSearchLanguage support. Ehm… to be honest, I’ve been fighting with Bison.

But in the end I tamed the beast and now Xesam support in Strigi is full.
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Yesterday morning I was quite arrived at work when Laura (my gf) called me. Something went wrong in our bathroom and water was everywhere. She closed the main water tap and I took the first train for home (yes, since I’m an outlier I take the train two times per day).
Once arrived at home I performed some hacking on the guilty washing machine, checked some pipes and than took the next train for office.

In the end yesterday I spent approximately four hours on the train. During this elapse of time I started the Xesam User Language parser
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Last day just after I hit the “submit” button a doubt came into my mind: “did I say everything ?”
Well, the answer is “No!”
In fact I forgot to tell you one of the most important things: how to have some fun with Strigi and Xesam!
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Since last Thursday Strigi gained XesamQueryLanguage support. This means that now is possible to process queries formulated using this syntax.

But why is this important?
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