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This is a perfect example of how to implement faceted navigation on a website (search and catalogs). Several interesting ideas. Take note, for example, of how the selection of facets that didn’t fit was handled. Or the horizontal facets?

https://www.myntra.com/*?userQuery=true

Exploring the topic of NLP, I stumbled upon an interesting e-commerce search project – @[484147038414629:274:AddStructure] https://www.addstructure.com/ Queries in natural language, support for contextual search, transparent facets. Cool, well done guys. Looks like a breakthrough. But who are the clients?..

Today, I discovered OpenNLP—a Java toolkit for text processing based on machine learning methods. Spent the entire evening getting it to work with SOLR. Someone had started it, but it was feeble and did not work. I finally got it running properly. Now, when I search for a red IKEA table, I can show not just anything red from IKEA, but all tables, primarily red ones, secondly from IKEA, and then just tables. Without this tweak, one of these three options would lead, making it not so easy for the store owner to achieve any one strategy.

I’ll polish it up; an article is coming soon. Right now, I’m as pleased as punch.

What do you think, how in demand is a local ad server, such as Revive Adserver (ex-OpenX) or OrbitSoft Ad Server, in online stores? As an addition to CMS?

If anything – I know the anonymous candidate X quite well, the guy is very sharp, and I highly recommend him to anyone building large e-commerce systems from scratch. Worked for many years in major e-commerce. Grab him (just in case: the photo is of Sergey, and the post is from him, and you should contact him, but remember, this isn’t about Sergey, who is also great, but about the anonymous candidate)

Google knows everything

Live a century — learn a century. It turns out, René Descartes devised the Cartesian coordinate system for Russia, but for the rest of the world, it’s called Cartesian. Because Descartes’ name (Descartes) translates to Cartesian. Gradually recalling the philosophy from university days, there was indeed Cartesianism

Published a comprehensive article about PDF generation on the server: libraries, approaches, methods, issues, and their solutions. A special case is when you need to generate a multi-page document like a contract. Created a prototype using document templates and merging.

This article has very little about hybris and the approach in general is quite universal, not dependent on the platform.

Also got a bit into the PDF format. My goodness, what it is… But they say that’s how it is at Adobe, and I haven’t even seen PSD yet.

https://hybrismart.com/2017/06/15/pdf-and-sap-hybris/

Liza and I “unpacked” our longboards. It’s really tough to find good spots to ride around here due to the uneven asphalt, gaps between concrete slabs, and hilly terrain. We decided to practice in an empty parking lot.

I did it! Creating a PDF on the server based on a template prepared in MS Word or MS Excel (probably in other software too – needs testing). Data from the database or a user form is inserted in place of tokens within the document. And yes, it turned out to be insanely difficult (but now I know a ton about PDFs).

There are several complications for which there is no neat solution yet. 1) only two monospaced fonts 2) of course, the text from the template does not flow onto the next page if the insertion is larger than the reserved space 3) the template needs to include invisible text with all the variety of characters [to enhance the PDF dictionary for that particular font] 4) Theoretically, in some new or old version, or due to some clever block placement or specific settings, Word may generate PDFs that my code does not understand. Theoretically.