10k personal search engine (10kse)

My submission for the 10k apart contest.

developed by

Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw | hexlib)

about

This is an application that I've wanted to write for a long time, but didn't for a variety of reasons - the most salient of which being the difficulty of implementing such an app in a cross-browser fashion.

The 10k apart contest seemed like an excellent opportunity to sit down and actually put it together.

development

The source tree looks something like this:

• src - source code separated out by type
• build - files used in building the compressed/crushed end result
• dist - output from the build
• test - unit testing n' such

IMPORTANT: Don't bother opening src/index.html via a file:// URI. Modern browsers are very picky about running code between zones, so the bookmarklet to add links will flat-out not work since it needs to postMessage() to a hidden iframe. You'll have to run some kind of web server to serve up the content, even for development.

building

To clean out your build:

make clean

To build

make

Building requires these dependencies:

• java - used to run rhino for jslint checks and other scripts plus google closure compiler and YUI compressor
• ImageMagick - specifically, the convert command - used to turn the ppm file into a png
• pngcrush - makes the data png file really tiny

repository

• http://github.com/jimbojw/10k/

license

10kse is released under The MIT License.